This former naval person blog hinted back at the war breakout that USA had something in the Black Sea that could do something if something had to be done. Prob. in the archives somewhere around 10 Aug.

Anyhoo some great pix of Moskva, and some Rus women in bikinis.

So, no non-Black Sea nations are allowed to have subs in the Black Sea? Then all those fears of non-cooperating Turkey were unfounded?

Lastly, the wiki pasted above, note that it was Rus belligerence which drove Turkey into NATO in the first place. Ha. Not 10 feet tall at all, brainz-wise.