The DISPUTE between the United States and Russia is no longer an open struggle, a bit open, the Russian-Ukrainian conflict clearly presents this proxy war instigated by the United States, and now the conflict has become a protracted war, on April 24, the 60th day of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, people found that the United States further increased its assistance to the Ukrainian army, the United States wanted to send heavy artillery to Ukraine, openly aided 100 155 mm heavy artillery, including: M777 ultra-light howitzers, it is said that Ukrainian gunners have begun training work in Poland.
Ukraine dared to fight with Russia
Russia is not to be outdone, and is also seeking to fight back, and now it is seen that Russia is going to "stab" the United States in the back, and outside the Ukrainian battlefield, intends to fight the United States in the Arctic. The direction of the Arctic can definitely be called: behind the United States, a region that is almost undefended, the United States believes that climate and geography are the best defensive lines.
Now the Russian side clearly wants to open a second battlefield in the Arctic, planning a situation that is favorable to itself, something unexpected. In any case, the Arctic has become a focal point in the geopolitical competition between Russia and NATO, and its value is not at all low compared to Ukraine. The Arctic is rich in natural resources, and in 2008, the U.S. Geological Survey surveyed the total natural resources of the Arctic: 47 trillion cubic meters of natural gas, 90 billion barrels of oil, and reserves of gold, zinc, nickel and iron. The Arctic will be an important transportation hub in the future, and the sea route through the North Sea route can greatly shorten the shipping distance and time between the Asia-Pacific region and Europe.
Arctic minerals are important
In the past decade, the Arctic has attracted more and more attention from the world's major powers, and Russia is also happy to turn it into a scene of struggle, mainly to the benefit of Russia, on the one hand, geographically speaking, Russia controls more than 50% of the Arctic Ocean coastal area, and the vast majority of Arctic routes are passed through Russia's exclusive economic zone. In other words, Russia has a geographical advantage in the Arctic, and the West cannot take advantage of the Arctic.
On the other hand, Russia started early, not only actively building new military bases, airfields, etc., but also organizing the world's only Arctic combat force, but also has the world's largest icebreaker fleet, especially nuclear-powered icebreakers. In contrast, the United States has few bases in nato, let alone preparations. I didn't expect to do things in the Arctic, naturally there was no military preparation, not even a basic icebreaking fleet, and I only realized the importance of the Arctic in recent years, but the action was still very limited, just shouting slogans.
Comparison of Arctic routes
Now the United States and Russia are fighting, the United States is moving more and more excessively, before it would not aid heavy weapons, now take the lead, Russia can not be weak, can not only fight in Ukraine, but also in the Arctic to open a second game! Fight the United States at your own home. In the Arctic, Russia is in a dominant position, and if the Arctic issue is discussed without Russia's participation, it is an empty talk.
Russian base in the Arctic
Now the United States is using NATO to expand eastwards to further compress Russia's living space, especially to pull Finland and Sweden into NATO, looking at Russia into the encirclement, but in the direction of NATO, it has become a vacancy, Russia went to the Arctic to give the United States a blow behind the back, Russia opened a new battlefield, to the United States and the Western camp out of the problem.