Bloomberg: The US unilaterally expanded its own part of the continental shelf

The United States announced the expansion of claims to a huge piece of the continental shelf in the Arctic and Bering Sea, and did so unilaterally. Bloomberg reports this.

The US agency notes that Washington has "significantly expanded" its claims to an area twice the size of California. The White House announced that US sovereignty should extend to these territories. By the way, Russia and Canada also lay claim to some of these territories. In addition to territories in the Arctic and the Bering Sea, the United States also “stakes out” pieces of the shelf in the Atlantic, Pacific Ocean and Gulf of Mexico.

The US State Department has already published a map that outlines the outer limits of the continental shelf, i.e. continuation of the mainland, which should go to the United States. It is assumed that this area is very rich in mineral resources.

The continental shelf is a continuation of the country's land territory under water. Like other countries, the United States has the right under international law to protect and manage resources and critical habitats

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It is noted that the United States independently determined the border of “its” shelf, without coordinating it with other countries and without submitting an application to the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf. While other countries, including Russia, have been waiting for years for a decision on their applications.

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[Aerodrome]

Bloomberg: The US unilaterally expanded its own part of the continental shelf

and what, so it was possible?

[The black]

By Decree No. 645, the Russian sector of the Arctic was legally placed under the protection and defense of the Russian Armed Forces. The United States, as can be seen on the published map, did not step beyond the existing demarcation line with Russia. By and large, this essentially frees our hands in the sense that now, without waiting for a decision on the application, we can also declare that the part for which we applied is OURS!!!

[Zoldat_A]

Quote: Black

By and large, this essentially frees our hands in the sense that now, without waiting for a decision on the application, we can also declare that the part for which we applied is OURS!!!

I don’t know what the UN thinks, which hasn’t been thinking anything lately, but all my life I’ve imagined the Arctic borders of my country as they were drawn in the geography textbook I used at school.
And therefore, regardless of the UN, there is simply our Arctic to the North Pole. Anyone who can reach such high latitudes can run beyond the meridian, take a photo “and I captured the territory of Russia,” and quickly escape. And to settle there like a prosper - well, let them try...

[Mikhail Ivanov]

You and I studied from the same textbook, I also think that our territory will not go anywhere!

[parabyd]

It’s possible, but this is not just a direct path to war, but an expressway.

The rule of the strong allows you not only to gain territory, but also to lose much more if you stumble and cannot protect them somewhere. Law of nature.

[Lev_Russia]

The States have long declared the whole world a “zone of their interests,” and now they were given felt-tip pens and they just started coloring it... You can unilaterally declare anything, but the power is less and less... For the whole world, even with the help of our sixes is no longer enough... And so, we, too, can declare the constellation Centaurus a continuation of our continent in space and stake it out unilaterally... But why the hell is it to us...???

[Old-timer]

They'll end up getting hit in the face with a teapot. The time of the USA has passed.

[Nyrobsky]

Quote: Old-timer

They'll end up getting hit in the face with a teapot. The time of the USA has passed.

Exactly. I also thought that, by all parameters, mattresses should crack under the influence of either a teapot or a candelabra.

[faiver]

Well, where is this teapot with a candelabra, may I ask?

[Nyrobsky]

Quote: faiver

Well, where is this teapot with a candelabra, may I ask?

How fast you are!!!
The mattresses have only just made a statement, and already give you the result of the influence of the teapots!
Such things are not done off the cuff. First, they will try to reason with them and convince them through all sorts of UN, and if they do not listen, then probably teapots with candelabra will fly in the air.

[Thrifty]

Haven’t they staked out a piece for themselves in the Sea of ​​Azov yet???

[ABC-schutze]

“The continental shelf is a continuation of the country’s land territory under water...”
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The State Department, alas, has long been inhabited by illiterate idiots. And this is not surprising for a long time...

The “territory of a country” (i.e., the right of state sovereignty) is determined by its borders. Including on the sea and water areas - by water boundaries.

And by definition, there are no “extensions” of borders “under water” beyond the existing boundaries of the state’s water area in international law...

If Uncle Sam “rolled his lips” on the unilateral expansion of his exclusive economic zone, then such “decisions” for other sovereign claimants, as they say, “from a high bell tower”...

[Mikhail Ivanov]

You can expect anything from these guys. The question here is, is it strong enough to adjoin this entire territory and then hold it? I’m not at all sure that the United States in its current form will last long. No one believed in the collapse of the Union either, until this actually happened. And mattresses now have more problems than Gorbachev had then...

[HUNTERDON]

Yes, you need to ask Medvedev, he is a great expert in this matter... (I think you know why)

[topol717]

Who prevented ours from chewing snot at the UN, but officially declaring that this is our sea?
Who first got up and slippers.
On the other hand, judging by the pictures, they didn’t steal anything from Russia, but painted it around their islands.

[ABC-schutze]

Well, in terms of “not stolen”, then the interests of Russia, incl. and economic, do not “end” at its state borders.

And everything that is “outside” those is subject to agreement within the framework of international law and the procedures established by this law..

So far, this, of course, exists, is recognized and observed by ALL its LEADING GEOPOLITICAL subjects. And no one has deprived Russia of such a geopolitical status and will not deprive it.

For this, it is unnecessary for Moscow to act as a “pioneer” in violating the aforementioned procedures and fall into hysterics, like Uncle Sam. Russia will always have time to “point the finger” at the precedent created by the States and begin to act “independently”...

[I dare to_notice_]

“It is noted that the United States independently determined the border of “its” shelf, without coordinating it with other countries and without submitting an application to the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf.”
Well... sue them in the Basmanny Court. (irony)
Everyone knows that the so-called “international law” is just as fucked up (crossed through... if sho...), as is the constitution in Ukraine.
All that remains of the UN is a sign.
Therefore, the principle works: “TAKE YOURS WHILE IT’S STILL NO ONE’S!”

[Andrei Nikolaevich]

Maybe it’s time for us to “expand”? And also, unilaterally.

[rotmistr60]

The White House announced that US sovereignty should extend to these territories.

By the right of “hegemon” I want and cut up additional territory? At the same time, they did not even deign to submit an application to the UN. But if

Some of these territories are also claimed by Russia and Canada.

then the Americans will not succeed so simply, with a stroke of a pen on a map.

[kosmozoo]

I bought myself a world map for my wall. What is noteworthy about it is that in addition to the new Russian-Ukrainian border running west of Crimea, the territory of the United States is painted in a color similar to Russia (a little darker). And on the Arctic map it’s funny to see Alaska as part of Russia and the Russian-Canadian border.
So the states have no rights to the Arctic at all, not even 12 miles.

[Zoldat_A]

Quote: kosmozoo

And on the Arctic map it’s funny to see Alaska as part of Russia and the Russian-Canadian border.

Good map.
Now, if only like in “The Golden Calf” - the printing house forgot to print the Bering Strait...

[Team]

It is noted that the United States independently determined the border of “its” shelf, without coordinating it with other countries and without submitting an application to the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf.

Why, was that possible??

[Grossvater]

Yes, in general, nothing, quite according to God. They straightened the corners, what's wrong with that?

[berlaga2005]

In the Bering Sea, a very large piece was “straightened out”... The likelihood that there is oil there is very high. Let's see who will send the first exploration vessel there.

[Vladlous]

Everything can and should be done regarding the United States and its allies, as well as its citizens. They are illegal.

[Grossvater]

Quote: Scuderia

Why, was that possible??

In international relations, anything you have the strength to do is possible. And it is right!

[Grossvater]

Quote: Andrey Nikolaevich

Maybe it’s time for us to “expand”? And also, unilaterally.

It's already like that. And they searched for the continuations of all sorts of ridges under water and left some kind of stinky convention last week. Nuclear steamships were built in quantities to break the ice.
Everything is done!

[My_log_in]

It's called feel the difference between an independent strong state and the rest of the world.

[Amateur]

If I understand correctly (see picture), then the United States attributed to itself the areas along the “Date Line” to the North Pole? Those. established the border with the Russian Federation approximately as it was indicated on Soviet maps?

[Grossvater]

Quote from: berlaga2005

In the Bering Sea, a very large piece was “straightened out”.

If you look closely at the map, you can clearly see that the distance from the shores is approximately the same for us and for them. That’s why I write that it’s completely divine.

[spirit]

This is how they will later declare the Moon theirs

[faiver]

well, they’ve already sold territories on the moon, if that’s the case

[faterdom]

They are in a hurry to crush the Northern Sea Route with their, like, territorial waters.
Let Suez be defended from the Houthis for now.

[Aleksandr58]

It’s time to return the waters given to Shevardnadze and DAM, otherwise the “partners” have become very excited. And in the Barents Sea, our interests will most likely clash; diplomats and military personnel must spin like snakes in a frying pan. Amers on the SMP have a tooth, and it should be pulled out.

[Jacques sekavar]

They have extended their jurisdiction to the continental shelf, no one else has rights to it, and the USA would not allow anyone to use it anyway.
Judging by the map, the Russian Federation should have no claims - the border is in the Arctic Ocean along the meridian, and in the quiet ocean along the international date line between Krusenstern Island (Big Diomede) and Little Diomede (USA) - where it passes.
Canada, too, should not have any special claims, and the rest of the claimants to the Arctic territories - Japan, China, Iceland, Britain, Sweden, Finland are not washed by the seas of the Arctic Ocean and therefore cannot independently lay claim to anything, only as part of the EU thanks to Norway and until the US bought Greenland.

[nickname7]

Well, Russian geologists studied and studied the seabed to prove that the Arctic shelf belongs to us. The USA made it simpler and said it was ours.

[Volunteer Marek]

Only a mirror answer. And - immediately. So far no one has come to their senses.