The head of the State Department called the Arctic a new "theater of conflict" between the United States and Russia

The United States does not rule out the emergence of a new "theater of conflict" where the interests of the United States and Russia will converge. We are talking about the Arctic. This was stated by the head of the American Department of State Anthony Blinken.

Washington notes that a new point of confrontation between the United States and Russia may soon appear in the Arctic. Climate change leads to greater accessibility to this region; the Northern Sea Route is becoming more and more passable. Warming is opening up new opportunities for all countries in the region, the US says.

Against this background, as Blinken says, Russia is almost single-handedly exploiting the Arctic, trying to establish full control over it. The construction of military bases and the deployment of weapons along the Northern Sea Route are especially emphasized. Also mentioned is China, which has its own interests in the North.

In principle, Blinken's statement about a new "theater of conflict" is no longer new. The United States has repeatedly stated the need to limit Russia's capabilities in this region, including transferring the Northern Sea Route under international control (read - the United States). However, to date, all American ambitions are dashed by the lack of a powerful icebreaker fleetwhich Russia has.

But over time, if the warming trend continues and the ice-free space increases, the United States and its partners will have the opportunity to build up their forces in the Arctic. Therefore, Russia needs to continue strengthening its Arctic borders so that the United States does not have a desire to create another "theater of conflict."

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[Victor_B]

The theater of the absurd climbs into the "theater of conflict"!
But!
There he (this theater) will have surprises ...
Admission is by tickets only!

[Andrey Korotkov]

Quote: Victor_B

The theater of the absurd climbs into the "theater of conflict"!
But!
There he (this theater) will have surprises ...

The theater begins with a hanger, so let them hang.

[NIKN]

It is probably necessary to voice plans for the Alpha Centauri, so that the theater of conflict would go away from the earth.

[Olgovich]

Quote: Andrey Korotkov

Театр

Everywhere Russia interferes with the US citizens and does not give rest ...

At least somewhere in the world there is no USA?

[figwam]

Quote: Olgovich

Everywhere, Russia interferes with the US citizens and does not give rest ...

At the same time, Russia interferes with pepepindossia in the exclusive economic zone of Russia.

[Vladimir Mashkov]

The State Department is strenuously looking for where else to compete with Russia. I even forgot a little about China.

[Civil]

Let's see who has more money for the confrontation.

[Polite Moose]

Quote: Civil

Let's see who has more money for the confrontation.

I suggest you better see who they will use as a proxy there. Well, not the n-s themselves will get into the batch.
PS We fed all the bears there for a long time.

[Yura]

Quote: Polite Elk

Well, not the n-s themselves will climb into the batch.

Canada, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Britain would not be surprised if Australia, which has a plug in all the holes in the United States. There and Poland with the Baltic syavas to pull up with their high-frequency squeal, the support group will be from some other countries, depending on a piece of the pie that will be promised to them, but not necessarily given.

[Tatyana]

Quote: Polite Elk

I suggest you better see who they will use as a proxy there. Well, not the n-s themselves will get into the batch.

Let me remind you that the collapse of the USSR began on the periphery on a NATIONAL basis. And the same tendencies are beginning to manifest themselves in the Russian Federation. In particular, the historian and analyst A.I. Fursov draws the attention of Russians to this. This is what he says about recent events in Siberia.

... “At the end of March this year, a scandal erupted in Tobolsk over whose name the city's airport should bear. <...> The proposal to name the airport after Yermak Timofeevich was quite logical and historically justified. It was with him that the growth of Russia and Siberia began. It would seem that the candidacy is indisputable, but she has there were zealous noisy opponents - the local organization "Heritage", which positions itself as a representative of the SIBERIAN Tatars. In their opinion, Ermak is an invader, almost an occupier, and therefore, it is impossible to call it by the name of the airport "...
... “The local authorities, apparently afraid to quarrel with the noisy minority, followed his lead and the name of Yermak disappeared from the list.
In my opinion, this whole situation goes far beyond the problem of Ermak, the airport and Tobolsk. We are dealing with a very dangerous precedent that lays a mine from afar <...> under the territorial integrity of the state of the Russian Federation and the repetition, already in Russia, of the process of the collapse of the USSR.
If Ermak Timofeevich and other Cossacks were pioneers of the XNUMXth-XNUMXth centuries, the same Erofei Khabarov, for example, thanks to whom Siberia and the Far East became part of Russia, conquerors, occupiers, then this automatically means that the Russian invaders, they occupied, captured Siberia, and, for example , defeated by Ermak on Tobol, Khan Kuchum emerges as a hero, a fighter for national liberation "...
«Next move, according to this flawed logic, this is - Siberia does not belong to the Russians, because they are occupiers, one step away either to the slogan the Russians get out of Siberia, or to the slogan Siberia is a separate state. We know perfectly well which foreign states, which transnational corporations, whose special services and which part of the fifth column support and feed Siberian separatism. Regardless of his Panturkist or Siberian guise, there is only one goal - to split Siberia from the Russian Federation and transfer it under the so-called international control, that is, under the plunder by Western corporations. ".

See in detail - The dismemberment of Russia is neglected in Siberia, just like the USSR. By historian and analyst A. Fursov - https://maxpark.com/community/129/content/7374466

In general, the campaign against Yermak in Tobolsk is aimed at revising the historical development of Russia and the role and assessment of its state-forming people - the Russians in Siberia. At the same time, the rhetoric of the Heritage opposition organization - opponents for the name of the airport - is quite reminiscent of the rhetoric of Bandera in Ukraine, nationalists in the Baltics, in Georgia, in the former Central Asian republics ...

[Nyrobsky]

Quote: Civil

Let's see who has more money for the confrontation.

There is money in mattresses like a makhorka crayfish, but there is no way to put a paw on the SMP because there is no legal justification.
We do not have enough money, but there are enough opportunities to guarantee the shipment of Lyuli for an unreasonable attempt to get into the zone of our economic interests, which is a strong deterrent for mattresses, in connection with which they are trying to bring the NSR under international status.
The solution to the issue of money lies in the interest in the SMEs on the part of China, which implies the possibility of attracting their investments, which automatically involves China in ensuring their protection at the state level and greatly restricts the attempts of mattresses. not only Russia will have to resist, but also China. So the mattresses have a sadness that lasts for a long time and for all the money, more - "He sees an eye, but a tooth doesn’t."

[Civil]

The solution to the issue of money lies in China's interest in the SMEs, which implies the possibility of attracting their investments, which automatically involves China in ensuring their protection at the state level and greatly restricts the attempts of mattresses. not only Russia will have to resist, but also China.

Leave the PRC alone, they have officially renounced the alliance with Russia. Russia and the communist PRC have nothing in common. Therefore, only the Russian Federation needs the Northern Sea Route to develop raw materials and to export them to the West.

[Nyrobsky]

Quote: Civil

Leave the PRC alone, they have officially renounced the alliance with Russia. Russia and the communist PRC have nothing in common.

Vaughn what!
Perhaps for this reason, Lavrov and his colleague Wang Yi made a joint statement at a recent press conference that Russia and China will pursue a coordinated policy of countering the United States in the international arena? It is not for nothing that Russia helps China in building a system for early detection of missile launches, and ahead of schedule, and not 5 years in advance, as was previously planned. That's right, "you can't be friends" with communist China, it's always more fun to resist mattresses alone.

[Civil]

Russia is helping China in building a system for early detection of missile launch, moreover ahead of schedule, and not 5 years in advance, as was previously planned

This is another technology sale.

That's right, "you can't be friends" with communist China, it's always more fun to resist mattresses alone.

The PRC is a progressive communist power that is developing at a fantastic pace. Because they have a goal and an ideology. The PRC works in the interests of its people, not the bourgeoisie like ours. We have wild capitalism, they have socialism, and the goal is communism. Therefore, the PRC has no common goals with Russia.

Quote: Nyrobsky

Perhaps for this reason, Lavrov and his colleague Wang Yi made a joint statement at a recent press conference that Russia and China will pursue a coordinated policy of countering the United States in the international arena?

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov returned from an official trip to China empty-handed. Even before the trip, he tried to interest Beijing in a joint response to Western sanctions, in particular, he called for the abandonment of the international payment system SWIFT. But when he returned, admitted in an interview with the Big Game program on Channel One that China is not going to respond together with Russia to the attacks of the West, and even more so to create a military alliance with Moscow.

The Chinese communists know very well who the capitalists are and how they relate to the population of their own country. Therefore, they are watching with gloating the confrontation between the West and Moscow.

[Nyrobsky]

You voice the stamped-out truths (capitalism, oligarchs, the bourgeoisie, etc.) without taking into account the ongoing changes in the world due to the destruction of the unipolar world and the redistribution of spheres of influence in the new world order. 10-7-5 years ago, everything was almost as you write, but the mattresses did too much for China and Russia to go from just geographical neighbors to the category of situational allies. Nothing brings us closer together than the fact that the United States practically on a daily basis designates the Russian Federation and the PRC as its strategic, geopolitical and economic enemies No. 1 and No. 2, and periodically swapping them.

Quote: Civil

The PRC is a progressive communist power that is developing at a fantastic pace. Because they have a goal and an ideology. The PRC works in the interests of its people, not the bourgeoisie like ours. We have wild capitalism, they have socialism, and the goal is communism. Therefore, the PRC has no common goals with Russia.

Why, in China's relations with the Russian Federation and the United States, do you not make a distinction between American capitalism and Russian capitalism? Or do you think that China maintains relations exclusively with North Korea and Cuba because they have a related ideology?

Quote: Civil

The Chinese communists know very well who the capitalists are and how they relate to the population of their own country. Therefore, they are watching with gloating the confrontation between the West and Moscow.

The Chinese communists are also well aware that after the fall of Russia, the main target of the United States will be China, and therefore they are not interested in weakening and destroying Russia, or in changing the vector of its attention in favor of strengthening relations with the United States.

Quote: Civil

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov returned from an official trip to China empty-handed. Even before the trip, he tried to interest Beijing in a joint response to Western sanctions, in particular, he called for the abandonment of the international payment system SWIFT. But when he returned, he admitted in an interview with the "Big Game" program on Channel One that China is not going to respond together with Russia to the attacks of the West, and even more so to create a military alliance with Moscow.

I don't know how about abandoning SWIFT, but the fact that he called on China to limit the use of the dollar in payments between countries, yes. In principle, this is done. Also, several years ago, another, alternative to SWIFT, payment system was successfully tested. So disconnection from SWIFT is, first of all, fraught with the USA itself, since it removes financial operations carried out by "opponents" and the possibilities of blocking them from their control. The military alliance between the PRC and the Russian Federation has not yet been developed, but the topic of military cooperation exists, and these are "many" other concepts and relations.

[Reptiloid]

The mattresses have money ...

if they print them, of course.
Only time and long-term work of several centuries cannot be bought for any money.
Russia has been in the Arctic for a very long time. The names of the Russians on the maps of the Arctic, polar exploration of both the Republic of Ingushetia and the USSR, Papanin, Treshnikov, Somov, Schmidt - forever.
China, of course, is interested in cooperation with the Russian Federation in this case.
Semi-assed --- in flight!

[Nyrobsky]

Quote: Reptiloid

Russia has been in the Arctic for a very long time. The names of the Russians on the maps of the Arctic, polar exploration of both the Republic of Ingushetia and the USSR, Papanin, Treshnikov, Somov, Schmidt - forever.
China, of course, is interested in cooperation with the Russian Federation in this case.
Semi-assed --- in flight!

Semyon Dezhnev and Vitus Bering passed the Northern Sea Route even when there was no trace of the USA and Canada, so let these star-striped "tourists" walk like cancer through the gullies.

[Reptiloid]

...... Semyon Dezhnev and Vitus Bering. ....... when there was no trace of the USA and Canada. .......

By the way, the Bering Strait was discovered not by the Dane Bering, but by the Russian industrialists Fedorov and Gvozdev, indeed, when the United States was inhabited only by Indians. And our Pomors went to Grumant (now it is Spitsbergen), to Novaya Zemlya, Severnaya Zemlya, when Columbus was not yet born --- in the era of feudal fragmentation! I read that they found a white tribe in Alaska (it still lives there!), Which calls itself Cossacks, speaks a language derived from Russian, and according to their legends it was determined that one of the atamans subordinate to Ermak reached these places long before creation of the Russian-American company!

[Nyrobsky]

Quote: Reptiloid

By the way, the Bering Strait was opened not by the Dane Bering, but by the Russian industrialists Fedorov and Gvozdev, indeed, when the United States was inhabited only by Indians

Here I am about the fact that mattresses are, in fact, historical "undergrowth" burdened with exorbitant ambitions, absolutely not versed in history. Crimea was legally Russian already at the time when they were just electing their first president, and the very concept of Ukraine did not exist in nature, but they try not to notice this historical fact, as well as others that do not fit into their mattress "under-history."
And Bering was a Dane by birth, but walked the seas under the flag of the Russian Empire.

[Reptiloid]

...... Crimea ...... was Russian ......

Crimea has been Russian since ancient times !!!!!!!! The current Taman in the Grand Ducal era was called --- TMUTOROKAN !!! And even earlier there were the Royal Scythians, in fact, the proto-Slavs. They have been there since the days when the Black Sea had not yet joined the Mediterranean, and the Sea of ​​Azov was the Meotian swamp! This is how it turns out.

[Nyrobsky]

I mean the legally formalized consolidation of the status of Crimea for Russia under the Russian-Turkish Treaty, that is, the acquisition of subjectivity under international law.

[Reptiloid]

Quote: Nyrobsky

I mean the legally formalized consolidation of the status of Crimea for Russia under the Russian-Turkish Treaty, that is, the acquisition of subjectivity under international law.

This is yes.
The Greeks have tried to colonize these territories since the Archaic era, when there was still opposition. However, now Crimea is Russian

[NDR-791]

Climate change leads to greater accessibility to this region; the Northern Sea Route is becoming more and more passable.
Well, it's you, gentlemen, hurry up. Experience in the north we do not take from the word at all. And the new six icebreakers tell me that ours know much more about the north.
The United States has repeatedly stated the need to limit Russia's capabilities in this region, including transferring the Northern Sea Route under international control.
I really don't understand - if Russia is the full legal successor of the USSR, then where are the "borders of the polar possessions of the USSR"? Who is to blame by name? Or do they exist, but our people prefer to be silent about it?

[WHAT IS]

Quote: NDR-791

where are the "borders of the polar possessions of the USSR"

There is no international treaty defining the legal status of the Arctic. The legal status of the Arctic territories is governed by the norms of international law, the national legislation of the Arctic states and bilateral agreements. According to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, each country has the right to apply to the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf and expand its territories up to 200 nautical miles (370,4 km) from the coast and beyond. Yes, it was accepted. " to divide "the Arctic sectoral, but this approach determined the legal status of the islands and lands, but not the water areas of these sectors.

[Al_lexx]

Well, they will rummage around Norway and Alaska, well, to hell with them. The main part of the North Sea Route runs along our borders.

[WHAT IS]

The United States has repeatedly stated the need to limit Russia's capabilities in this region, including transferring the Northern Sea Route under international control (read - the United States).

Yes, shchaz, aha, the SMP is ours, point.

[Cottodraton]

Nobody bothers them to pave their way along Canada. And it's not worth climbing into the economic zone of the Russian Federation, because neither they nor other "progressive mankind" have anything to do with the northern sea route.

[NDR-791]

And carry ice. From Greenland to Alaska and back

[tihonmarine]

Quote: Cottodraton

Nobody bothers them to pave their way along Canada.

In Russia, the Northern Sea Route starts from the Rybachy Peninsula and ends in the Bering Strait. In the United States, it begins and ends at the Rybachiy Peninsula from the East and West in the Bering Strait. They are not allowed to poke their noses further.

[KCA]

Build ships for conflict, otherwise you will sail a little further from the Gulf Stream, so immediately the ships finish the exercises and go home

[Ruslan Sulima]

Then Ukraine can be safely called a circus of military operations ...

[tihonmarine]

Quote: Ruslan Sulima

Then Ukraine can be safely called a circus of military operations ...

As in childhood they used to say "Cinema and the Germans."

[Ruslan Sulima]

As in childhood they used to say "Cinema and the Germans."

Let's just say that I didn't have to deal with the Germans for all the time, but I did happen to admire the SS, especially at 14-15.
Although I don’t know. According to the stories of his grandfather, the SS were terrible opponents, not like Italians, Romanians. But these ones, already from their own experience, somehow do not pull ... Perhaps that is why the Americans and Canadians undertook to cook them? By the way, the latter seem to be winding down their mission.

[tihonmarine]

Quote: Ruslan Sulima

According to the stories of his grandfather, the SS were terrible opponents, not like Italians, Romanians.

Because the SS were trained by the Germans, who were the best in military affairs, no match for the US, and even more so for the Canadians, and all these "Waffen SS" were volunteers.

[Ruslan Sulima]

Because the SS were trained by the Germans, who were the best in military affairs, no match for the US, and even more so for the Canadians, and all these "Waffen SS" were volunteers.

So are these volunteers, but wearing badges, making SS tattoos does not mean becoming skilled fighters, and even more so, fighting on the land that gave birth to you against its former neighbors.
Sharply, just very sharply, this fad spread from the western regions, where the Gallichin division were heroes, to the center and to the east. I do not find a rational explanation for this ...
I'll add a little. These are more reminiscent of the classic policemen who have seized upon robbery and impunity. That would be their real representatives of the descendants of the SS dunked on top of the head in an unpleasant smelling substance.

[tihonmarine]

Quote: Ruslan Sulima

Sharply, just very sharply, this fad spread from the western regions, where the Gallichin division were heroes, to the center and to the east. I cannot find a rational explanation for this ..

They did not finish off in due time, and metastases spread throughout the body, like the same L. Kravchuk, made their way into power, launching propaganda and glorification of Nazism and the OUN throughout the country.

[Ruslan Sulima]

They did not finish off in due time, and metastases spread throughout the body, like the same L. Kravchuk, made their way into power, launching propaganda and glorification of Nazism and the OUN throughout the country.

Well, now, with such a pace, it remains to revise the Nuremberg trial, cancel its decisions, rehabilitate everyone. That the supply of weapons to the followers of the fascist ideology was legal.
This is where the development of events is going. Something I did not see a decrease in the combat effectiveness of the same basics, after the prohibition to transfer the supplied weapons to him ...

[rocket757]

The head of the State Department called the Arctic a new "theater of conflict" between the United States and Russia

... They announced earlier, they will declare later ... and so what?
Here, after all, how, who managed to do that and the slippers and then try to take them away, if you do not intend to give them away.

[tralflot1832]

They are going to threaten us with this lonely marking with a sloping strip! They should not threaten, but weep sobbing out of impotence in the Arctic. Or do they want to fight over a piece of ice in the sea?

[tihonmarine]

Quote: tralflot1832

They are going to threaten us with this lonely marking with a sloping strip! They should not threaten, but weep sobbingly from impotence in the Arctic.

Greed appeared when the first Anglo-Saxon was born on earth.

[tralflot1832]

And the impudence and lack of principles are also from there.

[prior]

Until America gets the tinsel, it will continue to add gasoline to the fire of Russian-American relations.
The world gangster will never rest if he is not put to rest ...

[tihonmarine]

Against this background, as Blinken says, Russia is almost single-handedly exploiting the Arctic, trying to establish complete control over it.

Uncle Sam wants to stick his stinking nose everywhere.

[megadeth]

America's mission to trivialize the universe ... not me, Charles Dickens 19th century ...

[Doccor18]

... if the warming trend continues and the ice-free space increases, the United States and its partners will have the opportunity to build up their forces in the Arctic ...

And if it doesn't get warmer ..? Then everything, all hopes will collapse ...

[tihonmarine]

Quote: Doccor18

And if it doesn't get warmer ..? Then everything, all hopes will collapse ...

Better let it get colder.

[Baloo]

Russia will consistently and adamantly defend the rights of polar bears and walruses in the Arctic within its sovereign borders.

[Prisoner]

Oh, and this warlike "Oladushkin". Theater, his mother Melpomene! Hands off our Arctic. All.

[rotmistr60]

On this occasion, the day before yesterday argued in response to the statement of the American admiral. Now Blinkin decided to talk about the same thing. It is still necessary to get to the "theater of conflict", and even more so to master it without the presence of icebreakers and troops capable of conducting combat operations in these conditions. In Norway, on exercises at -12 C, the Americans showed themselves not quite confident, but what would happen at -30 C and below?

[Artem76]

Hoopoes are impudent .... Everywhere they rattle about their maritime law .... While there was nothing to do in the Arctic and did not climb too much - let Russia fiddle around there, but as the prospect smelled, they began to download their rights ... their rights to Australia, for example, why are these impudent common lands declared their own, and you can dig up questions about the American continent (I generally keep quiet about Alaska) ...

[Lynx2000]

What's the matter arose mr. Blinken ?! The USA and Canada have their own Arctic territories in the Western Hemisphere - develop. In Greenland, I remember the United States had a military base, then it was closed, it was reopened ...

[Piramidon]

It is not clear to them that their part of the Arctic is not enough. USA (Alaska) Canada, Denmark (Greenland), cooperate and master. But no, you need to appear ready. Freeloaders, Japanese mom. Well, there can be no question of the Chinese and sprat Europeans in general. Guided tours only.

[1536]

Is any of the US coasts washed by the Arctic Ocean? Ah, yes, Alaska ... But Russia does not lay claim to Alaska. What fell from the cart is gone. Therefore, Americans can sleep peacefully.

[georggy]

The results of the work of Lavrov and K. Everywhere ass in the world in relation to Russia.