Thought there was enough maritime drama? Look to the Gulf of Finland. – POLITICO

Elisabeth Braw is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, author of the award-winning “Goodbye Globalization” and a regular columnist for POLITICO. Her new book, “The Undersea War,” is out later this year.  

As the world anxiously watches the Strait of Hormuz, another maritime drama is taking place right here in Europe.

This one, too, concerns geopolitics and a small body of water, though these ships don’t have to worry about drone strikes. They’re simply stuck, waiting — because in a desperate move to thwart Moscow’s rule-breaking shadow fleet, Ukraine has crippled Russian ports.