Armed Polite Society

The media is making a mountain out of a mole hill. There was a time when the Russian, well Soviet, navy visited Cuba all the time and it didn't start WW-III now and 1 little frigate and 1 submarine won't now. Yes I know but lets just ignore that missile crisis thing for the moment.
Meanwhile the Russian sailors are enjoying Cuba, let them. Beats getting shot at in the Black Sea.

Of course they are. That's what they do. I posted this because I thought the reporting on this was an absolute *expletive deleted*ing joke.

"But to be at least partially fair to the Russians we usually have other ships in the area both US and allied that could assist and friendly ports nearby in case of trouble while they usually don't"

Yes, we do, but we also have money allocated towards maintenance that actually GOES towards maintenance, instead of towards some sticky finger Lt. Commander's side whore in St Petersburg... and his other side whore in Minsk.

We also have competently trained sailors who know how to operate the machinery on the ships to which they're assigned.

Finally, our rescue tugs and salvage ships are there just in case...

Russian rescue tugs are assigned to a particular ship or group of ships because it's Tuesday, and we know what thBOOM!

Oh look, the black smoke of graft and incompetence. Or there's a Ukranian around.

I heard Matt Gaetz saying that the Chinese worried him a lot more.  Apparently they've been upgrading a lot of facilities in Cuba to spy on the USA.

And for those who mock the Admiral Kuznetsov as being unreliable, I give you  . . . the U.S. Littoral Combat Ships.

Thanks, but no thanks. You can keep ithem.

G Bay is at the other end of the island though.  Helena probably handed off the watcher shift to another boat before she came in.