challenging Western dominance

air, and long-range missile capabilities, made significant policy changes to support the Black Sea Fleet’s employment of those forces, aligned trusted and key personnel to oversee the effort, and then leveraged the changes to challenge the balance of power across the entirety of the region and into the Mediterranean. This shift was undertaken to pursue Russia’s larger strategic interests associated with challenging Western dominance within and beyond the Black Sea itself. From 2013 to 2019 nearly 40 percent or more of Russian Navy ship and submarine procurement went to the Black Sea Fleet, thereby turning the Black Sea into what military analysis labelled a Russian lake สล็อตเว็บตรง