5 hours agoThe American airport's mysterious entrance into the Adriatic alerts European media
Periskopi(3 years ago)
(3 years ago)American nuclear jet carrier USS Gerald R. Ford sailed to Split a few days ago. According to German media Frankfurter Rundschau, its arrival in Croatia is not random. Specifically, as this German media, the security and political atmosphere in Serbia, Bosnia and Kosovo has been lit, and this is certainly one of [...]
Specifically, as this German media, the security and political atmosphere in Serbia, Bosnia and Kosovo is lit, and this is certainly one of the reasons the US sent the carrier to Split.
The most modern aircraft carrier in the US arrived in Croatia a few days ago. <x0.>Good morning, Croatia!”, writes the crew on their official Twitter account of their sensational arrival in Dalmatia.
Another tweeting post said: “The strengthening of partnership with our NATO allies in Croatia! The largest aircraft carrier in the world arrives in Split, Croatia for a planned visit to the port. ”
The visit comes at a time when hot spots are erupting in the Western Balkans, and in Serbia, ultra-nationalist President Aleksandar Vucic is under pressure due to major demonstrations.
German media recall that at the end of May, more than 30 Italian and Hungarian soldiers of NATO's KFOR peacekeeping mission were injured in riots in Kosovo. The Transatlantic Defence Alliance later sent another 700 troops to the region, in addition to the 3,800 deployed troops.
Vucic then proposed sending 1,000 Serb soldiers to Kosovo, allegedly with the intention of deespassing, which, however, KFOR rejected him. Vucic later accused KFOR of humiliating Serbs with the alleged negative response.
Unlike neighbouring Croatia (about four million people), Serbia, with some 6.8 million inhabitants, is still not part of NATO or the European Union (BE). Vucic, meanwhile, faces the biggest mass protests in the country since mass demonstrations against war criminal Slobodan Milosevic in the fall of 2000. The opposition criticises 53-year-old aggressive political style.
It is also stressed that representatives of the Serbs in Bosnia (about 3.3 million people) voted no longer to recognise the Constitutional Court's decisions there, and the American Embassy in Sarajevo called it <x0). And that's when the USS Gerald R. Ford sailed to Split.
German media question whether it is a common visit between partners or perhaps it is a demonstration of NATO power in the Western Balkans?
