Due to Montreux Convention rules regarding the Bosporus and Dardanelles that connect the Black Sea to the Mediterranean Sea, countries that sit on the Black Sea have unlimited access. Nonresident countries may only send ships in for short stints and are limited by ship size. So although NATO is not intervening militarily on Ukraine’s behalf, the Black Sea was always going to be a vulnerable spot for Ukraine.
In other words, if there were ever a body of water well suited for bullying your neighbor, it would be the Black Sea.
Encircling the waterway are Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine, Georgia and Russia — three NATO members, two who want to join the alliance and then the nation currently invading Ukraine.
Only submarines from bordering, or riparian, states are permitted to pass through the straits, either to rejoin their base in the Black Sea for the first time after construction or purchase, or to be repaired in dockyards outside the Black Sea.
@sparkuri started doing revisionists ww2 reenactments where he always plays Stalin and gives a speech about a future god chosen leader called Putin
@Filthy once drank Smirnoff and it was all over. He and Jimmy Dore are fermenting their own potatoes to get around the sanctions.
