The Arctic is going to be “hotly” contested as soon as the US and NATO build ships, ice cutters, planes and find troops (besides a few Norwegians) who can operate in chilly conditions.
The ‘gas station’ of Eurasia has apparently jumped ahead by a decade or two.
The UN is grudgingly coming to the scientific conclusion that the continental shelf claimed by Russia under a good portion of the Arctic is really Russian territory. Which makes the minerals there Russian and the waters above the shelf Russian.
We shall see if the Hegemon and NATO can accept that reality.
For now, they will need permission to use the open Northern Route.
These Russians soldiers are there to enforce Russian sovereign rights.
Trade through the Arctic between Asia and Europe will flourish, so there are many secondary stake holders in Russia’s development of the Arctic, including major corporations making investments in energy development projects.
Eurasia is speeding up. The West can’t keep pace.
So, they threaten, they sabotage, they create chaos.
One wonders if we’ll see ISIS in white uniforms soon. The US is shipping them everywhere–Afghanistan, Pakistan, Central Asia, Xinjiang, North Africa and Sub-Sahara, Indonesia, and Philippines. Arctic Takfiris is not beyond the dementia of the CIA and the Pentagon.
The Arctic is going to be “hotly” contested as soon as the US and NATO build ships, ice cutters, planes and find troops (besides a few Norwegians) who can operate in chilly conditions.
The ‘gas station’ of Eurasia has apparently jumped ahead by a decade or two.
The UN is grudgingly coming to the scientific conclusion that the continental shelf claimed by Russia under a good portion of the Arctic is really Russian territory. Which makes the minerals there Russian and the waters above the shelf Russian.
We shall see if the Hegemon and NATO can accept that reality.
For now, they will need permission to use the open Northern Route.
These Russians soldiers are there to enforce Russian sovereign rights.
Trade through the Arctic between Asia and Europe will flourish, so there are many secondary stake holders in Russia’s development of the Arctic, including major corporations making investments in energy development projects.
Eurasia is speeding up. The West can’t keep pace.
So, they threaten, they sabotage, they create chaos.
One wonders if we’ll see ISIS in white uniforms soon. The US is shipping them everywhere–Afghanistan, Pakistan, Central Asia, Xinjiang, North Africa and Sub-Sahara, Indonesia, and Philippines. Arctic Takfiris is not beyond the dementia of the CIA and the Pentagon.
‘Arctic Takfiris’…LOL…sad but true…
Is this base built on ice?
Floating on (very cold) water?