It’s hard to think of a dumber place for the USA and NATO to pick a naval battle than the Black Sea. It’s Russia’s swimming pool and they will never cede it. Closing the Dardanelles would be child’s play and any NATO forces would be destroyed in detail.
Stupid, stupid, stupid.
Maybe we could have quid pro quo, the Russians could do drills in the Gulf of Mexico with Venezuela, Cuba and now Peru.