Panic in the street of Chişinău
It might be an idea, judging from this:
"NATO proposes joint Black Sea naval drills with Russia".
Here, as an aide memoire is a map of the Black Sea:
And to illustrate matters further, NATO membership in the area:
That the Black Sea is black in the graphic is serendipitous rather than a deliberate joke.
So, Turkey, Greece, Romania and Bulgaria are in NATO, Ukraine and Jawjuh want in while the Rodina herself and Armenia (who knows who its friends are) do not want to join the club. That covers the entire littoral of the Black Sea. While the reach of the US 6th Fleet is such it could flatten pretty well everything within a range of a few thousand miles of the dead centre of the Black Sea, even some of the less capable navies in NATO should not be too stretched if they sought to bombard landlocked Moldova, all of about 20 miles from the coast.
So, Moldova Beethoven and tell Tchaikovsky the news... (Sorry)
(The article actually refers to mine clearing, but having decided I fancied doing the post I pressed ahead disregarding that minor mouche in the unguent).
"NATO proposes joint Black Sea naval drills with Russia".
Here, as an aide memoire is a map of the Black Sea:
And to illustrate matters further, NATO membership in the area:
That the Black Sea is black in the graphic is serendipitous rather than a deliberate joke.So, Turkey, Greece, Romania and Bulgaria are in NATO, Ukraine and Jawjuh want in while the Rodina herself and Armenia (who knows who its friends are) do not want to join the club. That covers the entire littoral of the Black Sea. While the reach of the US 6th Fleet is such it could flatten pretty well everything within a range of a few thousand miles of the dead centre of the Black Sea, even some of the less capable navies in NATO should not be too stretched if they sought to bombard landlocked Moldova, all of about 20 miles from the coast.
So, Moldova Beethoven and tell Tchaikovsky the news... (Sorry)
(The article actually refers to mine clearing, but having decided I fancied doing the post I pressed ahead disregarding that minor mouche in the unguent).
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