![]() ![]() USS Porter and an Air Force MC-130J exercise together during Sea Breeze, July 20, 2020. needs to be a much higher priority," Hodges said, adding that Esper's suggestion that a Stryker brigade could be deployed to the region was "a very good idea." "Having said that, I always welcome any additional focus on the Black Sea region, because I think that. Hodges is one of many who criticized the redeployment of European Command forces, arguing it doesn't improve readiness and that the manner in which it's being done hurts NATO. "It's how they influence everything that goes on in the Balkans and the Caucuses as well as obviously Ukraine and Moldova." "The Black Sea region is what the Kremlin uses launch its operations in Syria and Libya and the Eastern ," Ben Hodges, who commanded US Army Europe between 20, told Insider. Tensions have remained high since Russia's 2014 seizure of Crimea from Ukraine. Moscow, the most powerful Black Sea state, invaded neighboring Georgia in 2008. Sputnik/Alexei Druzhinin/Kremlin via REUTERS Russian President Vladimir Putin observes naval drills in the Crimean port of Sevastopol, January 9, 2020. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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