Russians lost a nice big modern cruiser, Moskva, in the Black Sea. The Ukrainians claim to have hit Moskva with two cruise missiles. The Russians talk about an on board fire setting off some ship’s ammunition. The Russians just don’t say how that fire got started, so it could have been Ukrainian missiles. The ‘Merkins are saying they lack evidence that missiles were used. Not very helpful to the cause of Ukraine. We would have done better to say nothing.
Pictures of Moskva show a very handsome heavy cruiser; the sort of ship a Navy will build when they cannot afford air craft carriers and the air wing a carrier needs to be battle worthy rather than being just a target. Our latest carrier cost $10-12 billion, and the air wing maybe another $4-5 billion. I notice that Moskva, in addition to a substantial missile armament also carried a nice big battery of guns. Modern US Navy ships only carry a single little wimpy 3 inch gun.
Anyway you slice it, accident or Ukrainian missiles, the Russians have lost the flagship of their Black Sea fleet. All the TV newsies agree that this has hurt the Russians.
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