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It also controls the Bosphorus, hence cutting off the Russian Black Sea Fleet from the Mediterranean, and is a handy staging point for operations in the Middle
by mrec 6y ago
It also controls the Bosphorus, hence cutting off the Russian Black Sea Fleet from the Mediterranean, and is a handy staging point for operations in the Middle East. Nobody else can do the first, and alternatives for the second are less palatable.
- petre 6y ago> Nobody else can do the first, and alternatives for the second are less palatable. A submarine blockade can, like the one employed by Germany in WW2.
- nradov 6y agoNo a submarine blockade can't do it unless Turkey allows it. Submarines would have to operate in Turkish territorial waters and would be vulnerable to their ASW defenses.