(Zero Hedge)—Russia is winning the race to dominate the Arctic region, growing its footprint at the top of the world, and with China’s help to boot… That’s the conclusion of a new investigative Wall Street Journal report, which features interactive graphics and maps.
The Arctic has long been understood by international powers as a politically neutral part of the globe, and in the years following the collapse of the Soviet Union, there was even some cooperation between the United States and Russia on things like developing and regulating Arctic fisheries, as well as environmental preservation concerns.
But as we’ve long documented, a new ‘race’ for Artic dominance has heated up simultaneous to the Russia-Ukraine war, and accompanying US sanctions targeting Moscow, as well as Chinese entities willing help skirt Washington’s punitive measures. Thrown into the mix, and likely to complicate ratcheting geopolitical tensions, is President Trump’s declaration that he wants to buy Greenland.
Russia already has a distinct advantage which comes by way of geography, given it has always possessed the largest Arctic population of any of…
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