Russia: We will respond to entry of U.S. naval vessel into Black Sea

The Russian Foreign ministry said Moscow would respond to a U.S. naval ship's entry into the Black Sea with unspecified measures, saying it and other deployments were designed to ratchet up tensions ahead of a NATO summit, the RIA news agency reported. 

Russian state media reported that the USS Porter, a U.S. naval destroyer, entered the Black Sea a few days ago on a routine deployment, a move it said raised hackles in Moscow because it had recently been fitted with a new missile system.

 

Above U.S. destroyer - USS Porter 

U.S. Navy officials told reporters on Wednesday the U.S. military would also have two aircraft carriers in the Mediterranean this month ahead of a July NATO summit in Warsaw as Washington sought to balance Russian military activities.

He also said the deployment of U.S. aircraft carriers in the Mediterranean was a show of force which in his view deepened a chill in ties between Moscow and Washington caused by Russia's actions in Ukraine and Syria.

DYI Comments:  The U.S./U.K./NATO/EU alliance continues to pressure Russia to end their dominance of the Black Sea.  The alliance intermediate goal of bringing in Ukraine into NATO has so far been thwarted by aggressive political pressure and low level military intervention by Russia.  The alliance goal is the seizure(bringing into NATO) the Crimea and most importantly the port of Sevastopol.  This is why they call it geopolitics, geography and politics combined.  Geography does matter - control the port of Sevastopol - then the Black Sea is yours to dominate.

The alliance using NATO as its sword is in the process of surrounding 3/4 of the Black Sea. So far Turkey, Bulgaria, and Romania are in NATO.  NATO as stated before has been thwarted the Ukraine from entering NATO by the Russians, however Georgia are pro west/alliance who are openly courting NATO for membership so much so they have just recently ended joint military exercises with U.S. and U.K. forces.

Resource Wars - Oil and Gas

The major reason (for better or for worse) Americans and British are in the middle east to secure future supplies of hydrocarbons.  Terrorism has become an unfortunate side effect and now has become the excuse to remain, maintaining their(alliance) control.  Below is a chart for crude oil prices inflation adjusted updated to January of this year(2016). Currently 

oil has been dancing around $50 dollars a barrel up from its bottom in December of 1998. Remember these are inflation corrected and is an apple to apple comparison.  Since 1998 oil prices are up 300%.  Any wonder why the U.S. economy is in slow growth mode or the U.S. stock market made its secular top only two years later after oil prices bottomed in 1998?  The predominate driver of an economy is oil and gas which is double for the car/truck dependent U.S.    

The alliance is allowing Turkey, Russia's historical arch enemy to ramp up their military even to the degree of building and deploying an aircraft carrier in the Black Sea.  This forces Russia to be tied down in the Caucasus' leaving Azerbaijan a major oil/gas producer in the region vulnerable to the alliance overtures for inclusion to NATO(see map below).  

  

Also note the U.S. has remained in Afghanistan with their proximity to other oil/gas nations. Positive overtures to Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan all oil/gas producing nations.  Simply put:  RUSSIA IS IN THE WAY OF THE ALLIANCE'S GOAL OF SECURING OIL AND GAS TO POWER THEIR ECONOMIES!

The End Game

The alliance end game since the end of WWII to have Russia reduced in size by having the Turk's bring into their sphere of influence/control the Caucasus' all the way up to Volgograd with Kazakhstan as a NATO member as well.  The loss of the Lapland's far north and east of St. Petersburg AND the grand prize Russia's political sub division east of the Ural Mountains forming new countries to be brought under control of the alliance's major oil/gas companies.

DYI