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Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin’s three-year war against Ukraine has battered the Russian Black Sea Fleet (BSF). Ukrainian successes have largely forced the fleet to abandon its traditional Sevastopol base in Crimea for safer anchorage in the Sea of Azov and Novorossiysk on the Black Sea’s eastern coast (see EDM, November …

In the aftermath of the coordinated United States (US)-Israel airstrikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities, the Islamic Parliament of Iran passed a resolution recommending a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz—a 32-kilometre-wide passageway between Iran and Oman that opens in the Arabian Sea. Although the final decision rests with Iran’s Supreme …