The Eastern Mediterranean might be the (significant, underreported, under-remembered) Russian military presence in Syria. They have airbases, a naval base, they rotate and train their officers there, they constantly ship military equipment back and forth from the Black Sea ports via the Bosphorus to Syria, they train the Syrian army, they build human shield observation posts overlooking Israel.
What's unfathomable to me is how Israel (or Netanyahu?) keeps treating them as a frenemy.
I think there are probably many parties contributing to the interference in the Eastern Mediterrarnean. Russia and Israel are two of the big ones right now (and both have admitted doing it).
What's unfathomable to me is how Israel (or Netanyahu?) keeps treating them as a frenemy.