Gunboat Diplomacy
Battleships, warplanes, brinkmanship, and geopoli…
The Power Vertical Podcast by Brian Whitmore · The Charles T. McDowell Center for Global Studies and Atlantic Council's Eurasia Center
July 9, 20211h 1m
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Show Notes
Battleships, warplanes, brinkmanship, and geopolitics on the high seas.
What actually happened when Britain's HMS Defender sailed from the Ukrainian port of Odessa to the Georgian port of Batumi? How did what appears to have been a routine mission to assert navigation rights in the Black Sea escalate into a military and diplomatic incident between Russia and the West?
With Russia and NATO conducting dueling naval exercises in the Eastern Mediterranean and Black Seas tensions are rising. On this week’s Power Vertical Podcast, host Brian Whitmore speaks to military analyst Michael Kofman of the CNA Corporation about what it all means.
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