expand their naval forces there

Kazakhstan is unlikely to be the only country to respond to the relative decline of the power of Russia’s Caspian Flotilla. After a slow start, however, it has gone further than other littoral states. The other littoral countries—Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, and Iran—will also likely expand their naval forces there. Countries such as the PRC and Türkiye, which are concerned with trans-Caspian flows of petroleum and goods, may do as well, either directly or through surrogates. Such developments are likely to transform the geopolitics of this region, but they have already advanced far enough that it is now long past time to stop referring to the Caspian as a Russian lake and to recognize instead the other players’ roles. สล็อตเว็บตรง