Why Does NATO See the Black Sea as a Key Strategic Prize?

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Why Does NATO See the Black Sea as a Key Strategic Prize?

Why Does NATO See the Black Sea as a Key Strategic Prize?

Sputnik International

The jubilee NATO summit that kicked off on July 9 will bring into focus the alliance’s Black Sea strategy, Deputy Secretary-General Mircea Geoana said.

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«NATO will do everything possible… to help the Kiev regime… put pressure on Turkiye so that it finally shares the position of Washington and Brussels [regarding the Black Sea],” Vasily Dandykin, retired Captain 1st rank of the Russian Navy, told Sputnik. “They will discuss how to force [Russia] to leave Crimea, and, accordingly, leave new territories [Kherson, Zaporozhye, Donbass], and leave… the Sea of Azov, which we now completely control.» How did the Black Sea become a focal point of NATO war planners?

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The jubilee NATO summit that kicked off on July 9 will bring into focus the alliance’s Black Sea strategy, Deputy Secretary-General Mircea Geoana said.