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    "Perilous Russian Threat", The Guardian. Archived Message

    Posted by John Monro on June 14, 2023, 3:10 am

    "As the ice melts, a perilous Russian threat is emerging in the Arctic" screams the Guardian.

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/13/arctic-russia-nato-putin-climate

    In the article, we learn "The success of the Arctic Council (this was the politically divorced cooperative body that moderated interests in the Arctic from all the countries involved and is no longer functional since Russia's SMO) depended on its geopolitical balance. It is not a security alliance and has always tried to remain independent from politics. Five of the eight countries were part of Nato; the other three were not. That has now changed. Finland joined Nato in April. Sweden is in the process of joining. Soon, Nato will literally be surrounding Russia in the Arctic."

    So NATO will literally surround Russia, and we therefore state that Russia is now a perilous threat to.......who? Itself?

    And of course, though we do learn about global warming, and the melting of the ice and the Arctic amplification of global warming......isn't that itself the true perilous threat?

    I now await claims in the Guardian that the CIA have found documents proving Putin has been interfering with the climate in the Arctic,

    However in fairness to the writer, Barry Gardiner, Labour MP for Brent North, much of the article is fair and balanced, and he won't be the editor who wrote the headline. He makes a plea to return to to a more cooperative approach, as he writes in the last paragraph "During the cold war, the USSR and the west had cultural and scientific exchanges that kept back-channels of communication open when political temperatures were running high. Now, more than ever, we need similar initiatives to thaw the permafrost between Russian and western research efforts."

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