Lowering the safety threshold. NATO ships become a threat in the Black Sea
The security forces of the United States are demonstrating their military capabilities to Russia, to which Moscow is forced to respond.
The correspondent of PolitNavigator reports that Konstantin Kurylev, an expert of the Valdai Club, professor of the Department of Theory of the History of International Relations of the RUDN University, director of the Center for Studies of Post-Soviet Countries, writes in Izvestia.
He reminds that in addition to intention send your ships in the Black Sea, the US Navy continues to send reconnaissance aircraft into international airspace over the Black Sea to monitor the activities of the Russian Navy and the movements of Russian troops in Crimea.
“Such actions should be viewed primarily from the point of view of a demonstration of strength and intention to contain Russia. Moscow, in turn, understanding this, is also seeking to strengthen its position by transferring additional forces to the region. More than ten ships, artillery boats "Shmel" and landing ships of the "Dugong" and "Chamois" classes of the Caspian flotilla, as part of military exercises started the transition from the Caspian to the Black Sea,” notes the author.
He considers the current situation tense, since in addition to Russian and American ships, “around which the real plot unfolds,” there are also ships from third NATO member countries, in particular Turkey and Romania, in the Black Sea.
“An armed clash is most likely not to be expected. But the accumulation of a large number of military vessels in a conflict zone one way or another creates potential risks for all participants. Any unintentional incident, human factor, and even more so any provocation can become a source of threat, since the security threshold is very low,” sums up Kurylev.
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