Has it started yet?

The US military announced on Tuesday, March 14 that a Russian fighter jet hit the propeller of a spy drone that then crashed into the Black Sea. Russia claimed that this was not true and that the aircraft went down due to "sharp maneuvering".
A video of the "close encounter" was also published, and in the meantime, a competition started as to who will get to the parts of the downed drone first. Russia has allegedly already reached it, CNN reported.
There is no doubt that the situation on the Black Sea suddenly became quite tense, assesses Gordan Duhaek for Index.hr, and adds that everyone is publicly trying to avoid the opening of a new front.
But, as he states, the Black Sea is an area where tensions can easily escalate to an armed conflict. It is about, as the author assesses, a "potential Ukraine" in the making, only with even more directly involved players, including some NATO members.

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It reminds of the report published by the German Spiegel about the situation in the countries that have access to the Black Sea, which for decades was not on the radar of political strategists when it comes to geopolitical conflicts.
We are talking about a region that includes about 300 million people, and now it is no longer excluded that the Russian president detonates a tactical nuclear weapon in the Black Sea. The first line of defense, in any case, is Romania, which controls 30,000 square kilometers of the Black Sea.

Romanian territory, however, is within range of Russian ballistic missiles, and only 225 kilometers separate the Crimean peninsula occupied by Russia and the Danube Delta, most of which lies in Romania.
Romania therefore plans to further strengthen the defense of the...