{"id":68480,"date":"2024-06-07T06:13:53","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T11:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=68480"},"modified":"2024-06-07T06:13:53","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T11:13:53","slug":"russian-warships-steam-for-caribbean-as-ukraine-tensions-go-global","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=68480","title":{"rendered":"Russian Warships Steam For Caribbean As Ukraine Tensions Go Global"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n

Russian Warships Steam For Caribbean As Ukraine Tensions Go Global<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
\n
\n

In a show of force perhaps prompted by President Biden’s authorization of Ukrainian strikes inside Russia using US weapons, a group of Russian warships is en route to the Caribbean<\/strong>, a senior US official has told McClatchy and the\u00a0Miami Herald<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0White House officials alerted members of Congress to the Russian move on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The deployment signals Russia’s capacity to operate globally while still fully engaged its third year of war in Ukraine. \u201cThis is about Russia showing they are still capable of some level of naval power projection,\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>the official said.\u00a0\u201cWe should expect more of this activity going forward.\u201d In March, Ukraine\u00a0claimed<\/a>\u00a0it had either sunk or disabled a full third of Russia’s ships in the Black Sea.<\/p>\n

\"\"
Plagued by constant breakdowns, Russia’s only aircraft carrier, the Admiral Kuznetsov, has been out of service for\u00a0seven years<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(Norwegian Royal Air Force photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

CBS News<\/em><\/a>\u00a0reports that\u00a0long-range Russian bombers will rendezvous with the ships<\/strong>\u00a0for combined naval and air maneuvers. Such exercises are not without precedent: Russia conducted similar combined-arms Caribbean maneuvers in 2019, and had a streak of sending ships into the Western Hemisphere at least annually from 2013 to 2020. Following the summer exercises,\u00a0Russia is expected to engage in a worldwide naval exercise this fall,<\/strong>\u00a0sources tell CBS.<\/p>\n

The Pentagon is tracking a “handful” of ships and support craft that are expected to reach Caribbean waters in the upcoming weeks.\u00a0US analysts speculate that the flotilla will make port calls in both Cuba and Venezuela.<\/strong>\u00a0Cuba’s likely relishes the opportunity to host the Russian warships:\u00a0Last year’s docking of a US nuclear submarine at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base<\/a>\u00a0ruffled feathers in Havana, with the Cuban government calling it a “provocative escalation.”<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n

…click on the above link to read the rest of the article…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Russian Warships Steam For Caribbean As Ukraine Tensions Go Global In a show of force perhaps prompted by President Biden’s authorization of Ukrainian strikes inside Russia using US weapons, a group of Russian warships is en route to the Caribbean, a senior US official has told McClatchy and the\u00a0Miami Herald.\u00a0White House officials alerted members of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[34677,1983,694,851,34678,4318],"class_list":["post-68480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-carribbean","tag-cuba","tag-russia","tag-venezuela","tag-warships","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68481,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68480\/revisions\/68481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}