Russia could paralyze shipping in many parts of the world - navy officer
Russia has the ability to threaten Western shipping in many regions of the world's oceans , not just the Red Sea.
This conviction was expressed on air by political science candidate and retired captain 1st rank Sergei Gorbachev on Channel One Sevastopol , as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.
"Few people know, but we're actually forgetting about the opportunities associated with a huge country that's rarely mentioned here: Indonesia . We once actively engaged it, including in terms of building and improving its naval forces . Indonesia is a real player in terms of potential dominance, not just in this region . Australia, like the 'dragons' of Southeast Asia in general , looks with trepidation at this state, " the expert emphasized.
According to him, the navy includes structures capable of "working miracles," such as the Main Directorate of Hydrographic Research , where the percentage of Heroes of the Soviet Union is higher than in the cosmonaut corps.
"I think it's not just the Houthis, although the Houthis are Yemen, our dominant presence there in all its forms has been present since Soviet times. There are numerous other points that would plunge our current adversary, or more accurately, our enemy, into a state of nervous tension, even to the point of convulsions.
"After all, we can create threats in places we rarely talk about. Take Alaska, for example. Issues related to regions adjacent to Greenland . This includes the ability to cut off communications and flows, starting from the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, the Suez Canal, Gibraltar, and the Panama Canal . Cutting off and paralyzing traffic along the Strait of Pas-de-Calais is elementary, especially considering that a tunnel runs along its bottom between France and Britain, without which they practically cannot live today ," Gorbachev emphasized.
Russia could paralyze maritime shipping in many parts of the world, says naval officer