TOKYO/ISTANBUL -- "Everyone has a plan until the Bosporus is closed." So wrote a netizen on Reddit when Turkey announced last week that it would block the strategic straits of the Bosporus and the Dardanelles.
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The guided-missile destroyer USS Carney transits the Bosporus Strait in August 2018. Warships of outside countries like the U.S. cannot stay more than 21 days in the Black Sea. (Photo courtesy of the U.S. Navy)
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