Today's D Brief: US ships to the Black Sea; Budget rollout today?; Fewer troops decline vaccine; 5

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 Today's D Brief: US ships to the Black Sea; Budget rollout today?; Fewer troops decline vaccine; 5 possible futures; And a bit more.
By Ben Watson
April 9, 2021 10:45 AM ET

    The D Brief

The U.S. is sending two Navy vessels to the Black Sea in “a show of support for Ukraine amid Russia’s increased military presence on Ukraine's eastern border,” Reuters and CNN report. (Read about that buildup in a separate explainer from Reuters, here.)

FWIW: The ships can only stay for 21 days before they have to turn around in line with the 1936 Montreux Convention. And that means, according to input from Turkey’s foreign ministry, those U.S. ships will exit the sea on May 4 and 5.

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@rangerrebew

TWO ships??????

Ya really have to wonder why they even bother.

[GtHawk]

@rangerrebew

TWO ships??????

Ya really have to wonder why they even bother.

I hear one was the SS Minnow and the other a tug for rescuing Gilligan and all the rest. Well Captain Dementia is the one in charge now