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There is a curious dichotomy: what you hear, here on the ground, or rather on the swell of the sea, is very different to the noises coming from Nato's high command in Brussels.

"I read the other day an account of the diamond jubilee of Queen Victoria, and the naval march parade that passed in front of her, and it makes me melancholy to think today Britain has only one aircraft carrier, which it shares with France.

Few things are simple in this part of the world and the tensions underlying the Ukraine crisis are present here too.

The European Union's approach to its eastern borders is a patchy work in progress, stitched together slowly even as the facts change on the ground.

The Russians have warned Nato's exercise is a militarisation of the Black Sea.

He says Nato has not been aggressive: "Obviously we want to provide assurance to our allied countries what we can do here in the Black Sea."

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"It's important we don't just have a binary view that if he is financially crushed, that Russia is crushed again as in 1989, that will be a good thing for world balance - if anything things would become more unbalanced.

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Don't worry, it's not war: they are firing a line ashore so they can tie up.

He said he had not seen more Russian activity in the Black Sea.

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"We're not here to provoke anyone in any way," he tells me.

President Obama has adopted a position of Zen-like calm and a reliance on sanctions that does little to reassure twitchy allies.

I observe with delight that alongside the hi-tech electronic maps, supplemented by radar, is a rather marvellous old-fashioned chart, complete with ornate versions of the flags of the countries bordering the Black Sea - Turkey, Romania, Bulgaria, Ukraine - and now, in Crimean - Russia.

A more resolute Nato may be part of the solution, or it may be part of the problem”

Since then President Putin has moved advanced missile systems into the peninsula - Nato says they can now hit just about any country in the area.

A Bulgarian naval officer taking part in the Nato exercises was circumspect: "I don't think this is a Nato exercise. It is just an opportunity for my ship to train with the Nato group, and I am very happy with this."

Unsophisticated approach

"This is not 'the great game' as we used refer to it - Russia referred to that same period as the 'tournament of shadows', which is a far more sophisticated view."

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Last year local club owners organised an anti-Nato march.

"The old world order is unravelling. We've lost the art of where we think we should have points of dialogue with President Putin.

Some US politicians even claim the Russians are planning to move nuclear weapons to Crimea as well.

The Russians have warned this exercise is a militarisation of the Black Sea”

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But there is tension and purpose in the air.