All the maneuvers between NATO and Russia in the Black Sea
Giuseppe Gagliano's article on the Russian exercise in Crimea as a response to Sea Breeze 2021
According to the information released by the Russian news agency Interfax , Russia, in response to the NATO maneuvers in the context of the Sea Breeze 2021 exercise, has put in place exercises in Crimea with the aim of verifying the effectiveness of the air defense forces.
This exercise involves the deployment of 20 warplanes, helicopters, S-400 surface-to-air missile systems, multipurpose fighters.
If on the formal level the aim is to safeguard respect for the borders that could theoretically be violated by NATO allies, in reality this exercise is nothing more than a response aimed at safeguarding one's national security and territorial integrity.
On the other hand, it is necessary to keep in mind that in the context of these NATO exercises there are both the American destroyer USS Ross and the British HMS Defender.
In the distant past it was the maritime republics that used the resources of the Black Sea and the trade routes it opened.
In 1261, when the Treaty of Nymphaeum was signed, this allowed the Genoese the opportunity to expand commercially on the Black Sea which at that time was one of the most important centers of international trade as the final outlet of some of the most important silk routes and spices that connected China and Central Asia with the Mediterranean by land.
Some time later and that is in 1275 thanks to an agreement with the Tatar Khan of the golden horde, the Genoese built an autonomous settlement on the site of the ancient Greek city of Theodosius, in Crimea, called Caffa which was one of the most important centers in commercial level for Genoa and which remained under its dominion until 1475 when it was then definitively conquered by the Turks.
Caffa in fact soon became the epicenter of a widespread system of Ligurian settlements scattered throughout the Pontic region in the Crimea whose most important terminals were Trebizond, Soldaia and the Tana at the mouth of the Don. Through their control, Genoa long held the commercial monopoly in the air.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/sea-breeze-come-la-russia-risponde-esercitazione-nato/ on Wed, 30 Jun 2021 11:01:31 +0000.