Warships from coastal countries can also pass, with the exception of aircraft carriers, but warships from non-Black Sea coastal countries have certain restrictions. Now, the Soviet Union has disintegrated, the Warsaw Pact no longer exists, NATO is actively expanding eastward, and Turkey has joined NATO and become the southern wing of NATO

, Therefore, the strategic status of the Turkish Strait is increasingly emerging, and it has an important impact on the global strategies of the world powers. For the CIS (mainly Russia), the Turkish Strait is a strategic barrier for its southward movement to the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean. It is related to

The United States and NATO have vital interests, so they will not take it lightly. Therefore, the Turkish Strait has naturally become the focus of attention in the world today. After NATO disappeared, Turkey directly took over the entire strait, although in terms of its national strength

, it is somewhat difficult to control such a strait, but now countries around the world do not have extra time to control them.

"Sir, our people from Turkey have sent back news that they want to be neutral and will not care about anyone's actions." After saying this, Karelina couldn't help but feel angry at these people in Turkey. Since you want to ignore everything,

, the warring sea areas should be blocked. What does it matter now? It is impossible for energy groups and the Americans to have extra fleets to enter the Black Sea. This regulation can only be convenient for Great Russia. It seems that Great Russia has also made a move in Turkey.

A lot of effort.

"Feed these unfamiliar wolves." Danny said bitterly, and then Li Cong remembered that Turkey used to be the little brother of the Americans, and the relationship had always been good.

Türkiye is a major country in the Middle East, spanning Europe and Asia.

The strategic position is very important. After the end of World War II, the relationship between Turkey and the United States became closer and closer. Turkey, an Islamic country, joined NATO in 1952 and formed a strategic alliance with the United States. Turkey allowed the United States to establish military forces in its territory.

The base was used to monitor and collect intelligence on the former Soviet Union. However, with changes in the international and domestic situations, frictions also occurred in U.S.-Turkey relations. In 1975, the United States imposed a three-year arms ban on Turkey because of its invasion of Cyprus.

However, after the embargo was lifted, the strategic cooperation between the two countries immediately resumed. From 1991 to 2003, the US reconnaissance aircraft against Iraq flew out of its base in Turkey.

In addition, Turkey has participated in several major Pentagon military cooperation projects, including the much-anticipated F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. Turkey has invested US$175 million and plans to purchase 100 of the fighter jets after they are launched; Turkey is also preparing to spend 16

US$1.3 billion to upgrade the existing more than 200 F-16s. In addition, the Turkish government announced earlier military procurement projects with the United States, including US$1.3 billion for the Patriot III missile defense system and US$800 million for 52 Black Hawks.

Helicopters, 10 heavy-lift helicopters for US$500 million, and 30 to 50 Apache or Cobra combat helicopters totaling between US$1.5 and US$2 billion.

During the Iraq War, the United States had military bases and important military-related facilities in Turkey, with as many as 5,000 permanent military personnel. Although when the United States launched force against Iraq in 2003, Turkey refused to use the U.S. to open a tunnel out of its own interests.

Northern battlefield, but now 70% of U.S. air cargo to Iraq uses Turkey's Incirli base, and one-third of the fuel provided for operations in Iraq passes through Turkish roads.

The relationship between Turkey and the United States is very complicated, and local people's opposition to the United States is quite common. A recent poll shows that in 2037, Turkish people's favorability towards the United States will only be 11%, while this indicator was still 38% in 2004.

%. However, the pro-American attitude of Turkish government officials is very obvious. Although Turkey has long been a member of NATO, it has not yet joined the EU. Therefore, after the establishment of Europa, Turkey did not take the initiative to join, but its relationship with the Americans is not as good as before.

Although the Americans still have troops stationed in Turkey, compared with the great freedom of the past, they now have a lot more helplessness. This event is a sign that they dare to help Great Russia, but Great Russia is their mortal enemy.

, there have been many fights in history.

Historically, the series of wars fought between the Russian Empire and Ottoman Turkey from the 17th to the 19th centuries to compete for the Caucasus, the Balkans, Crimea, and the Black Sea lasted for a total of 241 years, with an average of less than 19 years.

There was a large-scale war, 11 of which were important. Russia lost four and won seven. Although the territory captured was not large, only two small mountainous Christian countries, Moldova and the Caucasus, it hit the authority of Ottoman Turkey and shook its rule.

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It stands to reason that Turkey used to be an empire spanning the Eurasian continent, but now it can only be regarded as a major power in the Middle East. Especially during the 10th Russo-Turkish War, it can be said that the fight between the two sides was particularly brutal.

The Ottoman Empire (1299-1922) was once a large empire spanning Europe, Asia and Africa. However, it had declined in the second half of the 19th century. In order to save the empire, Mustafa Resid Pasha and Mead

Insightful people led by Hat Pasha launched a series of national salvation movements and carried out democratic reforms. At the end of 1875, the internal and external situation of the Ottoman Empire (1299-1922) rapidly deteriorated. A great famine occurred in the northern and central regions of Asia Minor, and the finances were on the verge of collapse.

, the shadow of intervention by foreign powers shrouded the country. Under this situation, the domestic political struggle intensified. On May 30, 1876, Abdul Aziz was overthrown, and Murad V was appointed as the sultan. August 31

Abdul Hamid II succeeded the insane Murad as Sultan and established a Western-style bourgeois constitutional monarchy, but ethnic conflicts spread under the banner of democracy. In Herzegovina, Bosnia and Bulgaria

Uprisings broke out one after another, and soon spread to Serbia and Montenegro, two Turkish vassal states. Turkey brutally suppressed the rebels, but failed to control the changes in the situation in the northwest Balkans.

’s rule began to waver.

Faced with this situation, among the European powers, Russia, Austria, and Britain expressed their special concern. Russia, in particular, believed that the Crimean War from 1853 to 1856 had caused it to lose both face and power in the Balkans.

In order to gain prestige and influence, it needs to find an opportunity to return to the Balkans and restore everything before it. More importantly, Russia wants to control the Balkans and then the Bosporus Strait, the throat from the Mediterranean Sea to the Black Sea, in order to open up its pursuit of

It has been the only outlet to the sea in the southwest for a long time. Therefore, it takes pleasure in the deterioration of the situation in Turkey and actively intervenes in it.

Under the banner of "saving Christians under the oppression of the Turkish Empire" and "protecting Slavic brothers", the tsarist government first exerted pressure on the Turkish government through diplomatic channels, but the effect was not significant. Its proposal to collectively protect the Slavs was met with resistance.

The British, which was supported by the Austro-Hungarian Empire, opposed it. It then proposed the implementation of autonomy in Bosnia, Herzegovina and Bulgaria, but was also rejected by Turkey.

Relying on the support of Britain, Turkey tried to completely defeat the rebels and Serbia and Montenegro, which declared war on Turkey on June 30, 1876. When the situation on the battlefield clearly favored the Turkish government

, the Tsar officially declared war on Turkey on April 24, 1877. In May, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro all announced that they would join Russia and jointly fight against Turkey.

On the eve of the war, Russia had 48 infantry divisions with a total of 720,000 soldiers and 3,000 guns, forming 16 corps. According to the combat plan formulated by Minister of War Dmitry Alexeevich Milyutin, the troops were deployed on the front line.

9 armies, 2 of which consisted of 100,000 people, formed the Caucasus Army, commanded by the emperor's brother, Grand Duke Mikhail Nikolayevich. Militia groups from Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Osetia and other places joined the Caucasus Army, taking the title.

Defensive. Concentrate 300,000 people from 7 armies on the Danube front line. The Bulgarian militia commanded by Russian general Nikolai Grigorievich Stoletov also joined the Danube Army. It is expected that the Turkish army will suppress Bulgaria due to the division of troops.

The number of people on the battlefield cannot exceed 150,000. The Russian army can quickly break through the Balkan Mountains with its 2 times numerical advantage, break through Istanbul before the West can react, and decide the situation of the battle. The commander of the Danube Army is the emperor's brother Nicholas Nikolai.

Grand Duke Laevich, but Russian Tsar Alexander II and the entire court were with him, and it was Chief of Staff Milyutin who actually commanded the battle.

After the military reform of the Ottoman Empire (1299-1922), the army had 406,000 people and 858 guns, of which 280,000 were concentrated in Europe, commanded by Abdul Kerim Nadir Pasha. 126,000 were in Asia, led by

Ahmed Mukhtar Pasha commands Turkey. Turkey's Black Sea Fleet has 22 armored ships, 82 unarmored ships, 763 naval guns, and 15,000 officers and soldiers. It is qualitatively higher than the newly built Russian Black Sea Fleet.

Advantage, the commander was a British convert to Islam, Hobart Pasha, who was ordered to blockade the Black Sea. Considering that the army did not have enough soldiers to attack, it was determined to rely on the four corners of the Danube River and the Balkan Mountains to carry out in-depth defense, waiting for assistance from Western countries. The Russian army was organized in the military

, troop training, the quality of command personnel and troop morale are all superior to the Turkish Army, but the quality of weapons and equipment is not as good as the Turkish Army, because the Turkish Army's weapons come from Britain, Germany and the United States.

After the war began, the Russian army was overwhelming and captured a large area of ​​Turkey's territory in one fell swoop. The Russian army's victory caused panic in the United Kingdom and the Austro-Hungarian Empire (1867-1918). The British government of Benjamin Disraeli sent an army to the Sea of ​​Marmara.

A British Royal Navy squadron showed a posture of not willing to break up, which forced Russia to give up its plan to march to Constantinople. On January 31, the warring parties signed an armistice agreement, and on March 3, 1878, the

"Treaty of San Stefano". This treaty was concocted in advance by Russian Foreign Minister Alexander Mikhailovich Gorchakov and the Tsar. For Turkey, it is completely an alliance under the city, without any maneuvering.

Room. The treaty stipulates: Turkey recognizes the complete independence of Montenegro, Serbia and Romania; recognizes the autonomy of Bosnia and Herzegovina, but remains within the territory of Turkey; establishes the Great Bulgarian State and allows the presence of Russian forces in Bulgaria

; Return southwestern Sarabia to Russia, and incorporate Kars, Batumi Ardahan and Bayazit into Russian territory; modify the Bosporus passage rules to allow passage of warships from Russia and other Black Sea coastal countries

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The signing of the Peace Treaty of Santo Stefano aroused strong dissatisfaction from Britain, Austria and other countries. They jointly exerted pressure on Russia and asked it to spit out the fruits it had swallowed. German Prime Minister Otto von Bismarck stepped forward to mediate

, claiming to be an honest middleman, due to the extremely unfavorable balance of power for Russia, Russia was forced to reschedule the "Treaty of Berlin" with the great powers and make major revisions to the "Peace of Santo Stefano": Greater Bulgaria became Little Bulgaria;

The Bosporus is still closed to Russian warships. Russia's influence in the Balkans has been curbed, and its attempt to develop naval power in the Mediterranean has once again failed. It has only recovered the territory ceded in the Crimean War.

The Treaty of Berlin also stipulated that Turkey would cede Cyprus to Britain, while Bosnia and Herzegovina would be transferred to the Austro-Hungarian Empire. It essentially partitioned Turkey partially, but it was far from resolving many extremely important Balkan conflict issues. It was

Many of the decisions made would later play an important role in promoting various conflicts that led to the outbreak of World War I.

Let’s not talk about the other great powers. From Turkey’s perspective, their decline started from then on. Everything started because of Russia’s attack. It can be said that they are feuding, but why did they help Great Russia this time?

"Danny, the situation is very urgent now. I need you to understand that we can't have any reservations now. Although we don't have specific news, I can be sure that the current situation in the Mediterranean is that our two houses will join forces, Europa and Red

Shanshu has joined forces. We are stronger than them in the world, but we don't have that ability in the Mediterranean. You have been operating in Turkey for so many years, don't tell me that you can't block the Turkish Strait." Li Cong looked at the Turkish Strait and was approaching Turkey.

The Great Russian Black Sea Fleet in the strait said that if they really come out and Europa's fleet enters the Mediterranean, then the strength comparison will be at least 1 to 1.5. Coupled with the shore-based aircraft along the way, then the energy group and the Americans will

But there is no advantage at all. Europa's blockade is so severe that it directly deprives the energy group and the Americans of any support from sea routes.

"I understand, but I hope that Mr. Li's forces in the area around the Black Sea can be at my disposal." Danny is not a person who talks too much. Compared with most members of the Skull and Bones Society, Li Cong still likes the person in front of him very much.

In his usual way of doing things, he immediately asked Karelina to go down to assist him. Time was urgent, and now we couldn't afford to delay. The Great Russian fleet might leave the Black Sea in a few hours.

Li Cong didn't even want to contact his old acquaintances over there at the Sequoia Tree. Those people there wanted to beat him to death. How could they discuss things with him? If it weren't for him, they would probably have saved their money.

Things that have been around for so many years will not be bought by him directly. It is precisely because of the robbery that Li Cong now has a special diamond exhibition hall. If those who sell jewelry see it, they will probably be unable to move out immediately.

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Shortly after Danny left, Li Cong also received notification that the strategic transport air force in the United States had begun to launch. Thousands of tons of supplies began to fly towards the First Division's station. They may have to refuel in the Middle East.

Flying directly to Sicily, they also understood that the matter in front of them was not so easy to deal with. They needed to fight a protracted war. The Energy Group would not provide any assistance to the First Division. They could only

It's up to you.

At an air force base in the United States, dozens of large C-135 transport aircraft began to take off carrying large quantities of weapons and ammunition. Next to them were escorts by hundreds of F35s and the newly developed F37 multi-purpose aircraft.

, their mission is to deliver necessary weapons and ammunition to the First Division, allowing them to withstand the first wave of attacks. In the next few days, these pilots may have to live, eat, and sleep on the plane, and their fatigue will be a great benefit to the First Division.

I’ll add a few bucks to the division medal.

At the same time, the Energy Group's sales channels in Europe also began to send thousands of tons of fuel to Sicily. Energy has always taken up the largest amount of transportation during the war. Although Li Cong said that he would not care about the First Division,

But it is still possible within the scope of his own permission. According to Li Cong's agreements with various countries, as long as he does not interrupt the energy supply to various countries, he can use energy at will even on the territory of his enemy. Although

Europa knew that these thousands of tons of energy would kill at least tens of thousands of them in the hands of the First Division, but they did not have the guts to stop Li Cong, because an energy embargo might cost them their lives.

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