"The US Military is Expanding Its Operations In Greece. The Reason Might Be Russia"

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The distance from Istanbul (Turkey) to  Sevastopol (Crimea) is less than 350 miles (550 km)

As noted in the intro to November 18's "French Navy Begins Largest-Ever Exercise, Half the Fleet Deployed":

If there is an EU navy, this is it.

And it is really handy to have all the ships fired up and ready to go should anything erupt at the other end of the Mediterranean/Black Sea between Ukraine and Russia (looking at you Crimea) over the next couple weeks.

And today's first story, from 19FortyFive, November 29:

In October, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Greek Minister of Foreign Affairs Nikos Dendias updated and deepened the two countries’ Mutual Defense and Cooperation Agreement.

“MDCA is the bedrock of our defense cooperation,” Blinken said in a statement, referring to what is essentially a bilateral defense agreement.

The agreement is timely for both countries, coming amid rising tensions in the region.

The update “highlights the geo-strategic importance of Greece specifically and the Balkans and Eastern Mediterranean in general. In the context of ‘renewed great-power competition’ these regions are increasingly important,” Andrew Novo a non-resident fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis, a think tank, told Insider.

“Greece has an important role to play in contributing stability in the Balkans, the Eastern Mediterranean, and even looking north toward the countries on the Black Sea,” Novo said....

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And from GreekReporter.com, November 28:

Port of Alexandroupolis, Greece Hosts US Largest-Ever Military Landing

The huge U.S. Roll-on, Roll-off Carrier “ARC Independence,” transporting military hardware, docked on Sunday in Greece’s port of Alexandroupolis....

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If both sides aren't very careful they are apt to start a shooting war.