Veterans Today | Military Foreign Affairs Policy Journal for Clandestine Services Russian Academy of Sciences, a research institution for the study of the countries and cultures of Asia and North Africa. [ Editor’s Note: Mr. O’Neill was quick to jump onto Boris Johnson’s latest folly of sending a warship into the Black Sea to provoke Russia and get some free publicity to leverage his sending the British navy’s new aircraft carrier to the South China Sea to show both Russia and China who the new boss in town was. Boris screwed up. The Russians fired warning shots to back up their claim that Crimea really did vote to reunite with mother Russia, something never really denied in the West, just the election part of it being swept under the rug.