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So now they’re having an argument. And in December, Admiral Alexander Moiseyev, the Russian naval commander, published a piece in a military magazine, ''Military Thought'' it’s called in English, arguing that you must have Russian naval protection to keep the trade routes open. Now, that’s easier said for the [[Arctic]] route because there’s a Russian shore, there are Russian bases. It’s not so easy to project Russian naval power far off Russian shores where the US has bases. And we’ve just seen a major interception and seizure of a vessel, not a Russian flagged vessel, in the [[Indian Ocean]]. The Americans, for the time, have been keeping it secret. It appears to have been in the western Indian Ocean and it takes a lot of effort for the [[US Navy]] and its shore bases—[[Singapore]], [[Diego Garcia]], and elsewhere—to mount these operations. However, it’s clear it’s a [[war]] against Russia at sea, it’s clear it’s got an [[economic]] target, and it’s clear that [[Dmitriev]] and that faction in Moscow have nothing to add to the defense and they don’t want their business-as-usual doctrine to be undermined if there’s a clash between Russian naval support for Russian flagged vessels.}}

So now they’re having an argument. And in December, Admiral Alexander Moiseyev, the Russian naval commander, published a piece in a military magazine, ''Military Thought'' it’s called in English, arguing that you must have Russian naval protection to keep the trade routes open. Now, that’s easier said for the [[Arctic]] route because there’s a Russian shore, there are Russian bases. It’s not so easy to project Russian naval power far off Russian shores where the US has bases. And we’ve just seen a major interception and seizure of a vessel, not a Russian flagged vessel, in the [[Indian Ocean]]. The Americans, for the time, have been keeping it secret. It appears to have been in the western Indian Ocean and it takes a lot of effort for the [[US Navy]] and its shore bases—[[Singapore]], [[Diego Garcia]], and elsewhere—to mount these operations. However, it’s clear it’s a [[war]] against Russia at sea, it’s clear it’s got an [[economic]] target, and it’s clear that [[Dmitriev]] and that faction in Moscow have nothing to add to the defense and they don’t want their business-as-usual doctrine to be undermined if there’s a clash between Russian naval support for Russian flagged vessels.}}

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