February 27, 2023
Bystroye, a Bridgehead Towards Sevastopol?
“And what if the infamous Bystroye Canal is not about the transport of grain? What if it is about something else… for in 2023 Ukrainian farmers will gather more shrapnel and mines than grain, and the grain they can export straight from Odesa, through the corridors agreed with Turkey and Russia, and from Constanța too, which has become de facto a Ukrainian port… So it cannot be about grain! Then what is it about?”
While I was putting this question to myself, gazing long at the map of the Black Sea, my eye fell upon an article in Flux24: “After Bystroye, Romania is concealing the plan for an American military base in the Danube Delta — CONTROVERSY OF THE DAY, BY ANDREI BĂDIN”.
In his article, Bădin brings back to our attention a report broadcast by Radio Free Europe, a station funded by the American Congress, which announced the creation of a NATO / American base in the Danube Delta as early as 17 February:
“A bill before the United States Senate sets out the criteria the Washington administration is to take into account in finalising and applying the future Strategy for the development and security of the Black Sea region. The document entitled Black Sea Security Act of 2022 was introduced in the Senate last summer by senators from both parties — Republican and Democrat — and was adopted in December by the Foreign Relations Committee of the US Senate.
The finalising of this strategy, on which the State Department has in fact begun work, coincides with the arrival of the new United States ambassador to Romania, Kathleen Kavalec, who on Tuesday presented her credentials to President Klaus Iohannis. The Black Sea Security Act stresses the need for a ‘stable, rotational’ NATO maritime presence in the Black Sea.”
Summing up, Andrei Bădin tells us: “the Americans have a bill lodged in Congress for the ‘plan’ for the Black Sea, with a military base in the Danube Delta, and it was indeed adopted last December in the Foreign Policy Committee of the American Senate.
Has anybody told the Romanians of this plan? Has anybody asked them whether they want a military base in the Danube Delta? So the American Congress votes a military project that directly concerns Romania and the Danube Delta, which is a UNESCO protected area? And not the Parliament of Romania?”
Very well: so we are to have a NATO base in the Delta… so let us forget both the pelicans and the grain.
But let us forget the NATO base too, for that will take months if not years to build, once it has been approved by Congress — and that will not happen tomorrow either…
Then why the hurry, the headlong completion of the Bystroye Canal?
I have only one hope: that it is not what it appears to be when you look at the map of the Black Sea…
I hope that Bystroye and the Danube Delta (the Ukrainian part) will not be the place from which the Ukrainians strike Sevastopol… for one thing is beyond dispute: Bystroye is the point on Ukrainian territory nearest to Sevastopol!
And it is just as clear that this area near Sevastopol is reachable only by water, along the Danube, there being no land routes as an option, since the only motorway in the region reaches as far as Izmail… and from Izmail one can go on only along the Chilia branch and the Bystroye Canal. Add to this that, through Tulcea, NATO and the allies could very easily supply the gun mouths at Bystroye with weapons.
Once again… this is a supposition; I have no information, obviously, but the map pushes me to reckon with this possibility as well. A possibility that would bring the war to Romania’s border… quite literally!
I am convinced that not even the Romanian “authorities” would know many details about such a plan, but I still find myself obliged to ask “preventively”:
Is it possible that Bystroye is a bridgehead for an attack upon Sevastopol?
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