Cold War II: The Black Sea and the Mediterranean

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Cold War II: The Black Sea and the Mediterranean

 

 

Claire Berlinski, Ed.

/ June 14, 2016 / 20 COMMENTS

 

Unsurprisingly, the terrorist attack in Orlando has pushed other news off the front page, but this seems to me important context for evaluating what the presidential candidates are saying.

 

Late yesterday afternoon, the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower — an aircraft carrier known as the Ike — entered the Mediterranean. It will relieve the USS Harry S. Truman carrier strike group, which will be going back to the US this month after an eight-month deployment. According to The Wall Street Journal,