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We have to draw a line to Putin's bullying of the world and threatening world hunger somewhere.
Escorting ships from that terrorism is IMHO A-OK. If putler decides to attack those ships and trigger Article 5, that doesn't mean we strike with Nuclear weapons. Article 5 simply means, respond accordingly.
If putler wants to escalate to that and beyond, that's on him! Send escort vessels out.
Edit: fixed typos because I suck with at typing on touch screens.
I was under the impression that due to a treaty with Turkey that the US is quite limited in the number of ships we can send into the Black Sea. My concern if if we could reinforce those destroyers. If we are only allowed to send in like 3 and some support ships, that’s means we are outnumbered without backup being able to arrive. I wonder if we could get the UK, Turkey, France, etc to throw in some warships. That would give us enough combined since the lots are per country IIRC.
Just enough to provide support against direct harassment and missile strikes on international grain carriers. I suppose that turkey could send a few frigates or destroyers to escort grain ships.
Since Turkey is a NATO member, those would fall under Article 5 protection.
Any attack on those ship could then be met by an appropriate amount of force from NATO. If things go far enough, I could see some aerial action with F35's and B2's dealing with the offending assets.