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Rogue Valley:
NATO would not be allowed to send large ships through the straits if Turkey enforced the letter of the law regarding the Montreux Convention. Displacement limits would prevent US and NATO amphibious assault ships and aircraft carriers from moving through the Straits if Turkey applied the letter of the law. Futthermore NATO would have to give Turkey 8-15 days of notice before moving through the strait and would have to give the date of transit ahead of time. No ship borne aircraft could fly during the transit and the transit would have to be done during daylight hours. Finally Turkey might be able to declare NATO warships as hostile warships and block them entirely.
https://cil.nus.edu.sg/wp-content/u...ntion-Regarding-the-Regime-of-the-Straits.pdf
So my point still stands.
Cheers.
Evilroddy.
Again. Poppycock. The West has never sent such warships through the Bosporus Strait. If it came to that, the sensible thing for the West to do would be to mine the Strait and close it to Russian shipping. The Russian Black Sea fleet ships would be trapped either in their home port or beyond the safety of the home port.