Russia's Cold War on the Arctic

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/11/21/Arctic_Security_The_New_Great_Game

In 2007, Russian explorers staked their nation's claim to the arctic region by placing a Russian flag on a seabed at the North Pole. A panel of military experts discusses the act's implications for the international community.

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In 2007, Russia laid claim to parts of the Arctic seabed—a historic first and an act that has been challenged by Canada, the United States, and Norway. These littoral states as well as Denmark, Finland, and non-littorals such as China and Japan, have looked at the Arctic as an area for possible new transit routes, energy supplies, and fishing grounds. Growing fossil fuel needs and depleted national fisheries are forcing countries to look for new areas of resource wealth.

While many are looking at the Arctic as an area of opportunity (a "frozen Saudi Arabia" as some have dubbed it), the littorals are concerned about the national security implications of a navigable sea lane or "Northwest Passage" through the Arctic and northern Canada connecting the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans. Increased military and commercial shipping traffic, environmental damage, smuggling, and trafficking, and therefore increased national expenditures of resources for monitoring and possibly reacting to such activities in the Arctic all come into play. Arctic security has been debated more and more in recent years. NATO, numerous governments, and nonprofit organizations have held discussions on the range of issues relating to the changing dynamics in the Arctic. The upcoming UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen will be yet another opportunity for nation states and parties to raise these concerns. - German Marshall Fund

Representing the Labour Party, Espen Barth Eide has been the deputy minister of defense since 2005. He served as deputy minister of foreign affairs from 2000 to 2001. Mr. Eide is a member of the presidency of the Party of European Socialists (PES), the party grouping of the Social Democratic parties in the European Union and the second largest party group in the European Parliament. In PES, he is responsible for foreign affairs.

General Walter Natynczyk is Chief of the Defence Staff for Canada, a position he has held since July 2, 2008.

General Victor E. Renuart, Jr. is the commander of the North American Aerospace Defense Command and United States Northern Command, headquartered at Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado.

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[Roofius2]

russia win

[Roofius2]

fuck canada fuck usa fuck norway

fuck all satanic



[graddlar]

@newenrba

Why does people in the Baltic have to suffer for American crimes against muslims?

[Rainshadowish]

@Russiasuperpower1 ok winter war casulties

russia 126000 dead or missing finland 26000 dead or missing

continuing war

russia 200000 dead or missing finland 63000 dead or missing not to mention how many tanks you lost and your humiliation at tali ihantala xD screw it russians the japanese owned you too even brazil would own you

[Rainshadowish]

@1988scottcarey good my canadian firends we are on ur side you can count on the finns

[Rainshadowish]

@Russiasuperpower1 look at the statistics who lost more tanks and men and who were better equipped admit it russia will allways suck and you will never get finland

[meronmotors]

@newenrba when did nato take land? Well actually come to think of it if we did take land wed be copyping the ruskies. Look how much they STOLE after ww2. they went from a joke to a super power by stealing half of europe.

[1988scottcarey]

Stay off eskimo land..RUSKIES,ESKIMOS WILL FUCK YOU UP...i wouldn't even mess with a woman eskimo!!

[1988scottcarey]

Canada should do what the russians do to us, lets just send unmanned drones near russian airspace and just piss them off.. fuck russia i got acouple of .223 rifles i train all the time out in the canadian wilderness of northern ontario and camp for acouple of days..Russians have somewhat the same culture as canada does being northern countries but i wouldn't be afraid of any if they attempted to invade us.

[Russiasuperpower1]

@Rainshadowish You agreed to the treaty because you had no other choice, it was that or total defeat

because by the end of 1944 the RED army had broken your lines and you had no army left.