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Last night I received a very interesting email from Mike Billinger of Schiller Institute who spotted this post. He advises me that Brit ships cannot enter the Black Sea because Turkey is strictly guarding the straits and has a treaty which prevents the movement of warships during times of conflict.

I have thought about this quite a bit and done a bit of research.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/28/black-sea-and-bosporus-treaty-tests-turkeys-stance-on-ukraine-war.html

Turkey is a member of NATO. Warships from UK, apparently delivering weapons, will not be considered to be escalating war as NATO has not declared war on anyone...... yet.

https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/naval-arms-control-1936.htm

As can be seen from this article ^^^ UK has violated Treaties repeatedly in the past. So why would anyone think they won't do it again?

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