Russia to send combat vessels to Caribbean to project ‘global power’, US official says

Naval exercises spurred by US support for Ukraine are likely to include port calls in Cuba and Venezuela, says official

Russia plans to send combat vessels into the Caribbean region this summer as part of naval exercises that will probably include port calls in Cuba and possibly stops in Venezuela, a senior US official said on Wednesday.

“As part of Russia’s regular military exercises, we anticipate that this summer, Russia will conduct heightened naval and air activity near the United States. These actions will culminate in a global Russian naval exercise this fall,” the official said.

The US does not see the move involving a relatively small number of vessels and planes as threatening, but the US Navy will monitor the exercises, the official told a small group of reporters.

crystalmerchant,

Oh God I’ve seen this movie before

Smokeless7048,

“Russia to send combat vessels to Caribbean, pretty sure Ukraine wont be able to sink so many there”

Valmond,

Don’t be so sure!

Buddahriffic,

How many fishing fleets will they attack (and fail to do much damage to) because the Kamchatka thinks they are Ukrainian torpedo boats?

Davidchan,

Surely it will be safe to stop by the Amazon and pick up a few local critters to boost morale. Say what does venomous mean?

mlg,
@mlg@lemmy.world avatar

I’m gonna be honest here, is there even any naval force besides the USN that could claim the ability to project power?

  • Russia’s carrier repeatedly caught fire
  • India left the door open on their brand new submarine
  • UK flopped a missile into the ocean
  • China pretends the SCS is the same size as the Pacific, and also allegedly had multiple nuclear sub accidents, which they cover up.
Davidchan,

I was gonna make fun of the French but then I remembered their nuclear doctrine is to lob a 250kt yield warhead as a warning shot.

CheeseNoodle,

The UK and France have both joined the US navy in a few actions (Though of the two neither can really project carriers) Chinas navy is technically large but most of it is coastal waters only, That said they’ve conducted exercises around Taiwan so they can at least project some power.

JustZ,
@JustZ@lemmy.world avatar

Australia and France. That’s about it.

zecg,
@zecg@lemmy.world avatar

Project global power

Hope they have aquatic cope cages to protect them

irreticent,
@irreticent@lemmy.world avatar

It’s always projection with them.

Simulation6,

They are just trying to hide them from the Ukrainians.

elucubra,

Yes, delay the submarine metamorphosis.

Gradually_Adjusting,
@Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world avatar

How funny would it be if Ukraine still sunk one

SkyezOpen,

It’s not out of the realm of possibility. They’ve been fucking Russia up in Syria as well.

CptEnder,

Same with Sudan, who provides arms to Ukraine. So they sent special forces, DURING their own war, to aide the Sudanese govt against Wagner led rebels to retake one of their largest cities. Been fucking up unprepared Russian mercs there with drones and kicking in doors left and right. Way to honor their allies really.

TheBlue22,

Bruh watch as multiple ships break down and some sink due to Russian incompetence.

Davidchan,

Weclome back Second Pacific Squadon. Think Japan will accept an invite by the US to run some exercises around Puerto Rico?

Railcar8095,

Good! A failed attempt to show off while weakening their forces in Ukraine

FleetingTit,

They can’t send warships from the Black Sea to the Carribbean. No warships are allowed passage through the Bosphorus Strait.

JohnOliver,

But that is Turkey forbidding it correct ? They can change their mind if the wind blows east-south east of any other direction than up really

bassad,

Europe confiscated their yachts so now oligarchs are using military ships to go on holidays?

mechoman444,

Lol Russia sending the equivalent of a dingy to sink in an intimidating manner.

collapse_already,

Just in time for hurricane season. Supposed to be a doozy this year. Will anyone rescue their poor sailors when the inevitable happens? Will we see an entire ship defect?

Exusia,
@Exusia@lemmy.world avatar

Remember when “a bad storm” sank Moskva. Good times.

BackOnMyBS,
@BackOnMyBS@lemmy.world avatar

Fun fact: The Russian Revolution of 1917 went underway when the Russian Navy joined in. I believe it happened just after Bloody Sunday, but I can’t find it now. Anyone here remember what the catalyst was for the Russian Navy on some island to join the Russian Revolution?

Badeendje,
@Badeendje@lemmy.world avatar

Well, the navy has nothing to do outside the black sea and since they lost some crews there they need to start training.

I just wonder what else they will be doing there. Cause Putin just declared he will start arming groups that fight NATO countries. So in the carribean you can arm drug cartels, contras and other insurgency groups and the US will need to deal with that. As it is a direct danger and it causes more instability, thus refugees to the US. Just in time for the elections in November.

Also having a group of ships sail out also allows you to break some off to do other stuff and equip other groups. Rendezvous at sea and all.

Adderbox76,

This is implying that they have regional power? They can barely hold onto Crimea now The Ukraine is off the leash and allowed to be more proactive in its defensive strategies.

What ships are they going to send? The one’s that haven’t already been sunk by cheap off the shelf drones?

Maalus,

It’s just Ukraine. “The Ukraine” makes it sound like a province. Ukraine makes it sound like a country. You don’t say “the France, the Germany” etc.

Theoriginalthon,

The United kingdom of great Britain and ireland, there are always exceptions

catloaf,

*Northern Ireland. Most of Ireland is still free.

Theoriginalthon,

At the rate the UK is going it won’t be long before there is no northern Ireland, and just Ireland

Adderbox76,

I always learned that it was the other way around, for precisely the same reason; Ukraine while it was a part of the Soviet Union. THE Ukraine after 1991.

But I’m happy to be corrected. Thanks.

deadbeef79000,

I thought it was the other other way around. Then:

The Ukraine Soviet Socialist Republic.

And now just:

Ukraine

Adderbox76,

Yeah. From doing some research after being corrected I confirmed that I was wrong. Adjusting my world view accordingly. Lol.

deadbeef79000,

Sir, this is the internet.

You’re supposed to double down and start making personal attacks.

Adderbox76,

My apologies. I’ll do better next time.

zerog_bandit,

The US…

Chadus_Maximus,

The US…

50 provinces in a trenchcoat.

Takumidesh,

The United States, which is plural, you are referring to the collection of states.

barsoap,

The Congo is quite common. Articles in front of country names are rare in English, actually quite common in e.g. German, and in any case neither of the two have anything to do with the v vs. na distinction in Russian. Which doesn’t even have articles those are prepositions.

Seriously the “sounds like a province” thing doesn’t make a lick of sense in English. It’s not “The Massachusetts”, “The Ontario”, or “The Tasmania”. Gotta be some phonetic quirk that’s above my paygrade.

Takumidesh,

That’s because the country’s name is The Democratic Republic of the Congo.

I don’t know of any country whose name doesn’t officially include ‘The’ (such as The United States, or The United Kingdom, or the aforementioned Congo) and gets an article superficially added.

The only reason I can think of for Ukraine is that it used to be part of another country and it’s just a holdover of when it was called ‘The Ukrainian Socialist Republic’

As far as the presence of articles (or lack thereof) in Russian, I’m aware, but we aren’t talking about the Russian name of the country, so much as the English.

then_three_more,

The Gambia

The Netherlands

The United Kingdom

Maalus,

“the Gambia” is literally their name, the Netherlands is plural and the United Kingdom is a collection of countries / provinces, just like the United States

then_three_more,

the Gambia" is literally their name

Well one out of three at least.

SlothMama,

Didn’t Ukraine get invaded during other such drills? Wasn’t it a ‘special military operation’ near the border?

Buelldozer,
@Buelldozer@lemmy.today avatar

Who are they going to invade? Cuba or Venezuela? There’s no point in that, they are already at least loosely allied with Russia.

They certainly won’t be invading the United States, they’d be destroyed before they could get within 10 miles of shore.

Russia is going to run a few ships around in order look tough. That’s pretty much it.

SlothMama,

No, I don’t think you understand, sorry. They might actually if we don’t watch carefully, who is to say?

cabron_offsets,

Blyats spreading themselves thin.

empireOfLove2,
@empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Hey, I’ve seen this one before!

tal,
@tal@lemmy.today avatar

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis

Soviet Union: Strength: 43,000 soldiers

I guess if Putin’s got 43k soldiers lying around.

Opisek,

If not, he’ll just draft the women and children, too.

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