The Geopolitics of Russia's New Port Sudan Naval Base

Russia is moving into the Red Sea in order to expand its geopolitical power and reestablish its prestige on the world stage.

Russia In The Red Sea: The Geopolitics of Russia's New Port Sudan Naval Base

Russia is expanding its geopolitical footprint. Alongside its established military bases across Europe and Asia, the country has plans to open bases across Africa and South America, in an effort to restore its status as a global power. Most recently, in November twenty-twenty, Russia secured a twenty-five-year agreement with the Sudanese government, to build a naval logistics centre at Port Sudan. By opening a base on the Red Sea, Russia joins the UAE and Turkey which are also expanding their geopolitical footprints in the region, which is expected to be at the epicentre of an explosion of economic and trade growth going into the twenty-first century.

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Moscow’s recent move in the Red Sea is driven by a combination of geostrategic ambition, commercial interests, and a desire to reestablish Russian prestige on the world stage. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, and its financial implications, and also because of Russia’s fundamental geographic conundrum - namely its lack of accessible, and secure seaports which are not at the mercy of adversarial states - Russian geopolitical power has larger been confined to the former Soviet Union.
In particular, the Russian navy, which hasn’t built and launched a new destroyer vessel since the end of the soviet union in late 1991, has fallen into disrepair, being unable to project the level of kinetic power of its Soviet predecessor. As mentioned before, financial restraints stemming from the economic turmoil of the post-soviet years have prevented Russia from launching campaigns of influence outside of its Post-Soviet sphere.
However, things are changing in a big way. With its relatively increased economic stability, Russia has begun to modernise its previously dated military. Russian military strategists have been somewhat innovative in their thinking in the past decade, understanding that with a lack of funding, other avenues of warfare must be considered if the country is to take on more kinetically powerful adversaries. Instead of the previous emphasis on mass mobilisation, Russia has chosen to modernise its forces in a way which makes them better equipped, more dynamic and better able to meet the strategic needs of the country in the realm of twenty-first-century warfare. All of that said, Russia still has a long way to go in terms of military modernisation, particularly in regards to its navy.

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