Like Minsk, we are not party of this convention but what we do affects others and we are operating on the ground or in the waters of others that did sign to this.
This convention restricts / limits the number and types of vessels allowed into the Black Sea.
We want to put more warships and of greater tonnage into the Black Sea than what is allowed.
This convention is by design intended to prevent escalation, a massive naval build up in the Black Sea.
***Even though we did not sign to it, we are traveling through Turkish waters: https://turdef.com/article/west-wants-to-violate-the-montreux-convention (A Turkish Defense site)
As usual, we simply use some make belief and conveniently used moral cause to justify doing whatever we want, but the Turks aren’t buying it. In the Ukraine conflict, we tried hard to play the NATO angle, that Turkey as a fellow NATO member should let us do whatever we want.
The Turks routinely turn us around.
Got it, thanks for the information. 🙂👍