[l3mure]

The Northern Sea Route has been contested for decades:

https://warontherocks.com/2023/10/getting-sporty-in-russias-...

The US is also upset that Russia had been making its own Arctic ECS claims through proper legal channels:

> Russia has cleared the scientific burden of proof required to have its extended continental shelf claim legitimized. Decades of scientific research, Arctic missions, and information exchanges with Denmark and Canada have resulted in the U.N. Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf dubbing the majority of Moscow’s claim to an extended Arctic continental shelf to be “valid.”

https://warontherocks.com/2023/05/russias-gains-in-the-great...

[INTPenis]

Wow there's so much I have no idea of.

I just watched the video from the Guardian about Russia claming their own territory based on ECS.

If both Russia and the US intend to exploit these resources, while the public make the switch to more renewable sources of energy, then this is clearly intended for military use primarily.

I remember reading somewhere that the DoD collectively is the largest producer of pollution in the world.