If Putin was a Communist, every left-wing organization in the world would be demonstrating against any military aid of any kind to the Ukraine.
In this case the sea is not a major factor. An annoyance for the Russians but not decisive. The situation is 99% land action. Of which Russia has an abundance, no matter what the Soros-controlled rags have to say.
In the article below that Dr. Jordan Peterson provides a link to, it is shown that at a recent, major speech, Putin has publicly rejected Commununism, Fascism, and western libtardism, saying they are all failures and in their stead declared that hard-core Traditionalism should be embraced by everyone. So it looks like Putin wants an expansion of Traditional values.
Jordan Peterson
Putin appeals to his citizens to reject Western “progressive liberalism” not least because it echoes Bolshevism:
https://mobile.twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/1481257700403171330?lang=en
Given that NATO offensively attacked Libya and Serbia when neither were threatening NATO members, NATO attacked on behalf of Odumba in Libya, it was unproven allegations that Gaddafi was going to kill 10k of his own people, and given that Putin won’t attack a NATO member and isn’t Communist, we are seeing virtue signaling Biden bots wanting the U.S. to go all around the world being the savior of one country after another being a busybody while the U.S. drowns in debt with stagflation, crime, illegal immigration rampant, etc.