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Have to agree with you on this one. The EU and NATO have their hands full already, and the traditionally US led NATO is in total disarray due to the strategically plalced US fraud prez not actually leading anything, and dispite the smoke and mirrors, greenlighting everything Moscow, Beijing, and Tehran on everything.

Lets build a more foundational picture -

RUSFed/CIS Navy has heavily and redundantly armed and nuclear (WMD) weaponized ports in Kaliningrad, St. Petersburg, Murmansk, Sevestopol, and likely Tartus.

Importantly, RUSFed/CIS Navy now have defenses or defended ports in Latakia, Tripoli, and four smaller RUSFed/CIS Naval ports from Libya to Egypt, and yes a RUSFed Naval port facility on the highly segregated island of Cyprus.

RUSFed/CIS Navy also now has a 3 smaller facilities (including unofficial but heavily defended “facilities”) from just North of our only US AFRICOM Naval Base in all of Africa in Djibouti (with the US now straddled by the Chinese Naval Base immediately adjacent to our base in DJ on the South/East and three smaller RUSFed Navy “facilities” to our North going up the Red Sea Coast (which are under one command, acting “in cascade/as one”, which have regularly supplied the Iranian led/backed Houthi attacks against Saudii Arabia and Saudi energy infrastructure, which supplies energy to the EU, (circa 2012/2013). RUSFed/CIS Navy also supports officially and unofficially, ports at Bandar Azali (Irans North Coast), and Iran’s Bandar-e-Bushehr and Chabahar ports in the Persian Gulf as forward military bases for RUSFed/CIS Naval warships and nuclear submarines.

As a hybrid, RUSFed naval presence has been heavily operational in support of Russian PMC’s (as they have and are currently doing in Venezuela, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Cuba, and Mexico) involved in training and support of Iranian backed Houthi’s in the Bab al-Mandab strait, Yemen, and have active Russian Naval refueling and maintenance facilities already in place, similar to what they had from 1960-1991.

Silicon Valley’s close Kremlin friend’s at Wikipedia media, and acedemia will not cover many of these, but we are now at 18 monitored and important RUSFed/CIS naval ports and facilities in just the EUCOM, CENTCOM, and *Northern/Mediterranean oriented AFRICOM AOR’s, only 3 of which are considered “cold water” ports/bases. And we are not even talking other strictly known and defended RUSFed anti-ship missile battery locations (including at Benghazi https://www.csis.org/analysis/moscows-next-front-russias-expanding-military-footprint-libya https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6254859/Putin-planting-troops-missiles-eastern-Libya-anti-western-stronghold.html https://rtd.rt.com/shows/the-kalashnikova-show-military-secrets-anna-knishenko/russian-weapons-in-egypt/), RUSFed Air Force, and friendly refueling ports, which include Oman. In January 2022, Russia also held a very large Naval exercise involving over 120 ships and more than 60 aircraft of their own off the Oman Coast, similar to the 140 Navy drill off the Irish Coast and Britain held at the same time.

And we are not even getting into other Russian Naval and Air Force facilities in the rest of Africa, Pacific theater, South America, Caribbean (Venezuela, Nicaragua), and Gulf of Mexico (Cuba) yet. And yes, they are there significantly. In fact, it would shock most who have not been tracking what has really been going on. I have imagery of multiple RUSFed naval assets in Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela, loitering/anchoring off Guatemala (many times), and loitering off both ends of the Chinese controlled Panama Canal.

Additionally, in January 2022, RUSFed/CIS Navy held a large naval exercise off the Irish Coast for two weeks (140 ships involved). which was preceded by RUSFed/CIS Navy circumnavigating (surrounding) the whole of Great Britain, the NW Coast of France, the Netherlands, Sweden (which also saw RUS Air Force fly directly over both its mid axis air space and that of Finland and Norway with recon and heavily armed aircraft). As well, the day after Putin invaded Ukraine, while British Parliament held an emergency meeting in London, the RUSFed Navy had assets literally all the way around Britain, which were shadowed by French, British, and US naval and Air Force assets, and they had imagery and discussed the matter “on the floor” in Parliament.

There is much much more, but the real baseline of adversarial posturing and capability is far advanced in both Eastern and Western hemisphere’s than most can comprehend at this time.

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In other words, while NATO is in total disarray — ISRAEL IS TOTALLY AND REDUNDANTLY SURROUNDED by layers of hardened enemy offensive and defensive systems.