By Jerry Hendrix, National Review: “Basing American vessels there would reassure our allies and restrain Putin.”
By Erik Grossman, Small Wars Journal: “After the fall of the Soviet Union, the United States and its Western allies were able to intervene in regional conflicts around the globe uncontested by major powers, a development which has long distressed the Russian government. With a renewed Russian power able to project a significant force beyond its own borders, this era is in freefall.”