Russia'’s Red Sea base schemeplan facessuffers insurmountablefrom fundamental logistical nightmaresimpossibilities, including impossiblethe equipmentabsence transport,of nonexistent power infrastructure, andunworkable prohibitivelyequipment expensivetransport coastalroutes and dredging thatcosts Moscow cannot affordmeet while bleedingexhausted resourcesby inthe Ukraine war. The Kremlin'’s support for Houthi attacks onthrough international shipping — including satellite targeting data and weapons transfersfurther —jeopardizes directly threatens the 12% of global trade passingmoving through these waters. Any nationstate enabling this destabilizing Russian military expansion risks serious consequences including sanctions, as Moscow cynically exploits Sudan'’s civil war to project power rather than promotebuild regional stability.

The Red Sea base deal marks Sudan's entry into the latest naval arena of great-power rivalry, with Washington and Moscow treating its coastline as a geopolitical prize rather than a sovereign space. Russia seeks a permanent foothold to challenge Western naval dominance, while the US pressures Sudan to block any deal that might erode its control of global shipping routes. Caught between competing empires, Sudan’s war-torn landscape becomes leverage in a wider contest where strategic access matters far more than Sudanese stability.