Attacks will continue in 2024, destabilizing markets and jeopardizing one of the most important routes for international trade. So far, only Iran has eagerly responded to the call to "contribute to the effort" by sending its naval frigate to the Red Sea amid an escalating standoff between the West and Tehran-backed militants. It is no secret that the region has already become one of the operational zones of the HAMAS-Israeli conflict, where Israel is supported by the US and Iran sides with the Gaza militias.

It seems that both sides will try to find the key to resolving the problem in the Red Sea and not in the Gaza Strip, where the situation is in a military and humanitarian stalemate, just like in Donbass. Asymmetry in military conflicts will be the key to their development in 2024, for both the Kremlin, Tehran and their opponents.