BULGARIA MAY FIND ITSELF IN EYE OF NUCLEAR STORM

Adhering to military protocol, Trump did not disclose any exact whereabouts, leaving the top brass to wonder whether this would not be a historical first, a nuclear superpower standoff triggered by a social media spat. But a local TV station in Bulgaria was quick to produce the answer.

According to POT (pun not intended), which stands for Plovdiv Public Television, Bulgarian tourists on a shopping spree in Istanbul met some Turkish fishermen who swore they had seen "at least one" submarine go through the shallow waters of the Bosporous. Their Bulgarian peers in the Black Sea reported they had seen a strange dark subaqueous shadow just in front of the Kamchiya delta, in northern Bulgaria. Kamchiya is known as the home of a sizeable Russian property, for years run by Stanka Shopova, a former senior Communist Party official. The Kamchiya property advertises itself as a recuperation home, but locals are convinced there is a huge warehouse full of electronic equipment underground. While not specifying the nature of that equipment, they are certain it is used to monitor NATO movements throughout the Black Sea and the whole of Europe. A third world war might start exactly there, they claim.

POT was joined by an Internet site which reported the second US nuclear submarine was spotted inside the Pancharevo Lake, not far from a controversial Russian-owned compound. That compound is alleged to be housing loaded projectiles to be used to destroy the Pancharevo Dam wall and flood Sofia.

Other experts reject the strategic significance of the Russian properties in Kamchiya and Pancharevo, and explain the escalation of tensions with the malignant activities of Bulgarian Russophobes, who misinform the US administration as a result of which completely innocent Bulgarians are being sanctioned under the Magnitsky Act. It is high time to make Bulgaria sovereign again, they claim.