Britain is gearing up to deploy warships to surround the Russian border for the first time since the Cold War, sparking fears that a war between Russia and the West is looming.
In an attempt to deter Russia from invading Ukraine, British authorities will deploy a Type 45 destroyer HMS Diamond, carrying sixty Special Boat Service and Royal Marine commandos on board.
According to reports, “HMS Diamond will lead a NATO task force and help protect 650 British troops who are involved in secret exercises in Ukraine—a country invaded by Russian-backed rebels in 2014.”
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Nationalinterest.org reports:
Type 45 Destroyers—among Britain’s newest and most advanced warships—are armed with Sea Viper antiaircraft missiles, Harpoon antiship missiles and Phalanx point defense cannon. The Diamond, launched in 2007, will also carry Lynx helicopters to transport the commandos.
However, the Type 45 has also suffered from engines that break down when the destroyers sail into warm waters such as the Persian Gulf. Fortunately for the Royal Navy, the Black Sea is not in the tropics.
Britain’s Defense Secretary Michael Fallon told the Daily Mail that “the UK is sending a clear message that we are committed to defending democracy across the world and support Ukraine’s sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity.”
Retired Royal Navy admiral Alan West also told the newspaper that Britain has “undertaken many naval exercises in the Black Sea in the past but these were much more benign circumstances and with benign intentions. This is an operation with a very serious purpose. HMS Diamond can really look after herself and President Putin is a man who respects hard military power. NATO has to show it won’t be threatened and that the UK takes the lead.”
However, it seems unlikely that Putin and his government will feel particularly threatened by the British move. Militarily, a single warship with sixty commandos is merely symbolic. If deterrence escalates into war, then a single Type 45 destroyer, even as part of a NATO task force, wouldn’t survive long off Russia’s coast, which bristles with land-based aircraft, coastal defense missiles and the warships of the Black Sea Fleet. Nor would it help Ukraine much against a Russian land invasion.
Even as a symbol, a lone destroyer doesn’t exactly send a strong signal that Britain will go to war with Russia to save Ukraine. But what’s particularly interesting is that the Black Sea deployment is part of what seems to be a more muscular British foreign policy. Royal Air Force jets are attacking ISIS in Iraq and Syria, British troops are training Ukrainian soldiers, a thousand troops will be deployed this summer in Estonia and Poland, and Typhoon fighters are headed to Romania.
Meanwhile, other RAF Typhoons are headed to Japan for joint exercises, while Britain has announced that its Queen Elizabeth–class aircraft carriers will be deployed in the South China Sea once the ships are completed in the 2020s. All of which is quite a feat, considering that the Royal Navy has now shrunk to just nineteen destroyers and frigates, the RAF has also downsized, and the British Army has receded to fewer than eighty thousand regular soldiers.
Sean Adl-Tabatabai
Someone should tell the old lady that the Sun has set on her Empire, and that her dream of a revival is just that a dream. The scriptural prophetic Word against Ephraim is one of a historical condition of treachery, betrayal and finally in the last days total demise as a country by war, destruction, invasion and captivity. UK=Ephraim on of the leading tribes together with Manasseh=US(who will suffer the same fate) of the lost tribes of the house of Israel, is modern Israel today which the prophetic Word of GOD refers to, and not the House of Judah, which today is erroneously and falsely called Israel. This is a little known fact, and it is why all understanding of last days prophetic err and are nebulous. And this has and will come from GOD Himself against Israel, Judah and all gentile nations due to man’s total rejection of GOD, His WORD and their Laws, Commandments, Statutes and Precepts. Six Thousand years were allocated, and 6000 years are now here! And now GOD will show man that HE alone is GOD and that man is HIS creation and that there is no other but HIM and the work of HIS Hands; Angles His first creation, the Earth and the Universe His second creation, and Man His third creation, and ALL for an awesome and wonderful purpose after the cleansing when Jesus the Christ very soon now returns, and the Chess game comes to an end with a checkmate in one move.
What day did God create other beings than humans?
FFS just fuken start the war.. all this pissing about all the time./.. all the bullshit jibber….. gonna do this gonna do that…somebody have some balls and START THE FUKEN THING ./…FFS
WELL SAID Photonic (( comment below))…. still like to see a war before it happens though…
This is insane; Russia has done nothing overt against England for them to take this provocative action. How would England like Russian warships surrounding their island? The USA, UN, NATO & now the UK moving military assets against Russia makes no sense. Mr. Putin is very smart and an excellent strategist and appears to recognize that this is a giant manipulation by the NWO. When will people wake up and smell the stinking & toxic coffee that the NWO is brewing for the world to drink? WWIII will be worse than anything ever seen before and instead of maintaining cool heads and entering meaningful dialogue, the armies of the world are rushing towards a military conflict with no winners.