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.

  • Adderbox76
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    286 months ago

    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
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      226 months ago

      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.

      • @then_three_more
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        26 months ago

        The Gambia

        The Netherlands

        The United Kingdom

        • @Maalus
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          36 months ago

          “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
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            16 months ago

            the Gambia" is literally their name

            Well one out of three at least.

      • Adderbox76
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        16 months ago

        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.

        • @[email protected]
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          66 months ago

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

          The Ukraine Soviet Socialist Republic.

          And now just:

          Ukraine

          • Adderbox76
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            66 months ago

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

        • @Takumidesh
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          46 months ago

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

          • @[email protected]
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            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
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              36 months ago

              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.

      • @Theoriginalthon
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        06 months ago

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

          • @Theoriginalthon
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            16 months ago

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