USS Mount Whitney Anchors Off Poti, Georgia

[Nonno (Premo)]

US navy ship steams into port where Russian troops stationed - Times Online

A US navy flagship has steamed into a Georgian port where Russian troops are still stationed, stoking tensions once again in the tinderbox Caucasus region.
A previous trip by American warships was cancelled at the last minute a week ago amid fears that an armed stand off could erupt in the Black Sea port of Poti.
The arrival of the USS Mount Whitney came as Moscow accused Dick Cheney, the hawkish US vice-president, of stoking tensions during a visit to Tbilisi yesterday, in which he vowed to bring Georgia into the Nato alliance. Russia sees any such move as a blatant Western encroachment on its traditional sphere of influence.



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USS Mount Whitney Transits Straits - USS Cowpens Allegedly Denied
From Zvezda TV News:

We have just received footage of the American destroyer (sic) Mount Whitney transiting the Dardanelles. According to the Turkish authorities, this is the third American vessel to transit the straits. The amphibious command destroyer can conduct strategic electronic reconnaissance and is one of the most modern ships in the American fleet. According to the Americans she is on her way to Georgia with humanitarian cargo.


The text of this TV reports adds that the Turkish government refused permission of the USS Cowpens to transit the straits.

[Larry Gude (Premo)]

...administration needs to put the sabre away and start working on the memoires. I've had it with foreign intervention, especially under his watch. Same goes for McPalin and Obiden.

[RadioPatrol]

Originally Posted by Larry Gude

...administration needs to put the sabre away and start working on the memoires. I've had it with foreign intervention, especially under his watch. Same goes for McPalin and Obiden.

We have no dog in this fight .... let the European Union worry about Oil and Gas from Russia .... it they have the balls to step up ... let'em do so


And High time to get out of NATO while were at it ....

Europe ain't so friendly to us anymore ... we are to uncivilized for them

let'em float on their own ....