The Iran-Israel War Presents a Problem for Russia’s Military Supply Chains
Israel and the US’s targeting of Iran’s supply chain routes are starting to have a discernible impact on Russia’s long-term infrastructure plans.
Much of the practical fallout from the Iran-Israel war has understandably focused on the shuttering of the Strait of Hormuz. But for Russia, there are other vulnerabilities along its supply chain routes that war in the Middle East have laid bare.
As has been noted, Russia’s role in the war was constrained by necessity, the practical limitations of its own military resources, as well as diplomatic caution over its nascent relationship with the US. But that has not made the Kremlin immune to spillover from the conflict. While rising oil prices presented a brief economic boon to a power reliant on hydrocarbon production and export, this war revealed the persistent vulnerability of Russia’s long-distance supply chains in the Caspian Sea, a geographical area that it does not fully control.
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