DOOM, GLOOM AND BOUM IN NATO BLACK SEA EXERCISE

9 September 2023

Joint NATO exercises start in the Black Sea Monday. 

https://euromaidanpress.com/2023/09/08/romanian-naval-forces-will-conduct-sea-breeze-23-3-exercises-in-the-black-sea-with-the-participation-of-ukraine-and-the-us/

Apparently the joint exercise with NATO is intended to practice dealing with sea mines.  Turkiye is taking part and America is sending de-mining divers with boats and special equipment. Our thoughts go to the pipeline. Could mining the Kerch bridge be in mind?

It is not clear to me [more research needed, ndlr] if America has or will have naval bases on the Romanian Black Sea coast. I read that Ukraine dredged out 10 kilometres of the canal next to the Chillia spur of the Danube in its Romanian estuary, ostensibly as a route for its grain ships and other exports through the Danube ports.

(Incidentally, why did the Americans start building their base in Ochakiv, Southern Ukraine, about two or three years before the war in Ukraine began? Was this a substitute for another dream : an American Black Sea naval base in Crimea?

https://www.politico.eu/article/naval-base-drew-putins-wrath-then-russian-fire/)

https://www.maritime-executive.com/article/clearance-of-snake-island-opens-route-to-ukraine-s-danube-river-ports

These annual NATO exercises with Ukraine have been going on since 1996 apparently, so no surprises this year, but does this mean there's nothing to worry about? Or is this especially provocative at this time because the Black Sea powers are at War...one slip and ...

Were Turkiye to join the BRICS, this would presumably mean its leaving NATO and would thus deny NATO access to the Black Sea through the Bosphorus, according to an agreement dating back to 1953 I think [need to check, I seem to remember that there is this agreement controlling movement through the Bosphorus of military vessels...ndlr], so a lot for both Russia and America to risk and worry about at this time.

We might conclude that all this trouble is caused by the group of neocons that came to power in 1992 - Paul Worowitcz, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld; given access to power by Bill Clinton; later elaborated in Brezinski's strategy of 1997. But is this true?

We blame these provocations on a seemingly small group, the neocons, but as they have no significant opposition and there is no consequential debate, neither in Congress nor in the White House, nor in the foreign policy est., nor in the state departments, nor the CIA, NSA...nowhere, it is in reality misleading to think that they can be removed and thus American foreign policy can be changed. The faces change but the policy remains. 

So today, we have Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and Acting Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland. Joe Biden's FP team. Nuland was chief of staff to deputy secretary of state Strobe Talbott under Bill Clinton. Joe Biden was Vice President of President Obama.

So change American foreign policy? There's no way this can happen, not even Trump can do this. Being number one, winning, remaining World Hegemon, by any means fair or foul, goes back to the start, to the winning side in the American Civil War and is non-negotiable. You could argue that survival is programmed into all living things and the only tool to ensure this is violence. It is the nature of the Beast, of which America and its empire is but one example, albeit excessive. 

So it would seem that this foreign policy is immune from change at the Ballot Box. The only way to effect change would be war and defeat for America.

Doom, gloom and boum.

Hey ho.