Part two. Turkey can control the black sea becase it owns the bosphorus straight

Part two. Turkey can control the black sea becase it owns the bosphorus straight. Turkey is in nato. Turkey is not a good nato ally. But it would love to control the reset of the blacksea without concern for russia. Without the black sea, russia has only polar ports closed to passage in winter. While it is hard to close the eastern ports, it’s trivial to close the western ports and the black sea.
Russia is preserving her air power in case of escalation. But her land power is almost done.

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