The Red Sea is an important international commercial route, and the Red Sea and the Suez Canal are the best way to connect the Asia-Pacific region and the Indian Ocean with Europe, and they are also the focus of contention among major powers.
Currently, the United States is exerting some influence on the world's most critical commercial route by sending troops to Egypt, Djibouti and Saudi Arabia along the Red Sea. Currently, joint U.S.-British forces are fighting the Houthis in Yemen to defend ships of Israel and other allies.
Russia is a powerful country, it has troops abroad, including Armenia, Georgia, Syria, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Kazakhstan. Russia wants to guarantee its influence in the Middle East and the guarantee of the sea ** by creating a base in Sudan near the Red Sea, where an army will be created.
Sudan Governor Sadiq said in a visit that Sudan does not have any objections in principle to the construction of a Russian naval base on the establishment of a military base in Sudan. However, the issue is now awaiting congressional approval. Sadiq said Congress is expected to make positive decisions on Russia's naval bases.
Russia and Sudan signed a deal for Russia to build a new naval base in Port Sudan, near the Red Sea, for 25 years, with enough ship repair and replenishment capacity to accommodate a nuclear submarine. Both countries will limit the size of the Russian naval base, stipulating that the Russian navy cannot send more than four ships and 300 soldiers to the military base at the same time.
If Sudan agrees to the construction of a Russian naval base in Port Sudan, it will add an important strategic node to Russia's strategic deployment in the Middle East, when the military bases in Syria and Sudan will complement each other. Russia's military in this region is like a sharp blade, which will constrain the strategic deployment of the United States in the Middle East. By then, Russian soldiers will be able to see the U.S. fleet fighting the Houthis in the Red Sea, and they will be able to reach the choke point of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.
However, the United States is unhappy with the construction of a naval base in Port Sudan by Russia. Earlier, when the U.S. representative to Sudan took office, Godfrey, warned the Sudan that if the Sudan allowed Russia to build a naval base on its territory, all the blame would fall on the Sudan itself.
Godfrey travels to Sudan in 2022 to take up his post, and while we don't know if that has anything to do with the outcome he described, Sudan is in a sense strategically important as a country on the Red Sea and has become the front line of the world's power struggle.