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An ice-free port or warm water port is a port where the water does not freeze (rendering it unusable) in the winter. This does not necessarily mean that the water would be judged as warm to the touch. Seaport, a painting by Claude Lorrain, 1638 The Port of Wellington at night. ...
Water is a tasteless, odorless substance that is essential to all known forms of life and is known as the universal solvent. ...
Freeze may refer to: Freeze, a particularly cold spell of weather, a snow storm or an ice storm. ...
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The Russian political establishment was for a long time seduced by the dream of a "warm water port". This idea dated back to the early 19th century and lasted until the end of the USSR.[citation needed] This idea did not strictly mean a port where the ice does not freeze, as such Russian ports already exist in the Black Sea and the the Russian Far East. Rather, it referred to a more literal idea of "warm water", combined with the idea that Russia's ports, both in the west and the east, had inadequate access to the open ocean.
According to western propaganda, the Russian dream of a warm water port was a motivation in Russia's "great game" in Afghanistan, as well as a reason for their opposition to the British Raj. It was also a motivation for the much later Soviet war in Afghanistan. Judging from these scenarios, it is most likely that the warm water port of Gwadar, Pakistan, or another port providing access to the Arabian Sea, was the ultimate objective.[citation needed] Central Asia, circa 1848 The Great Game is a term, usually attributed to Arthur Conolly, used to describe the rivalry and strategic conflict between the British Empire and the Tsarist Russian Empire for supremacy in Central Asia. ...
The British Empire at its zenith in 1919. ...
Combatants Soviet Union Peoples Democratic Party of Afghanistan Mujahideen Rebels supported by nations such as: United States, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, China Commanders Boris Gromov Pavel Grachev Valentin Varennikov Gulbuddin Hekmatyar Sibghatullah Mojadeddi Ahmed Shah Massoud Abdul Ali Mazari Indirect roles Ronald Reagan Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq Rahimuddin Khan...
Gwadar port is a deep-sea warm water port being constructed in two phases with heavy investment from China. ...
Map of the Arabian Sea. ...
The dream of a Russian warm water port is still supported by some small nationalist and expansionist parties in Russia today. Nationalism is an ideology that creates and sustains a nation as a concept of a common identity for groups of humans. ...
Expansionism is the doctrine of expanding the territorial base (or economic influence) of a country, usually by means of military aggression. ...
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