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Russia's desire to control the Black Sea's outlet goes back a very long time. So what if they managed to do it? Let's say that a communist coup d'etat occurs in Turkey in 1947. Would we have the cat and mouse game between American ships and Russian submarines extend to the Mediterranean? I assume we would have a much larger NATO presence in Greece and Italy.