Putin's Arctic invasion: Russia lays claim to the North Pole - and all its gas, oil, and diamonds
Russian President Vladimir Putin is making an astonishing bid to grab a vast chunk of the Arctic - so he can tap its vast potential oil, gas and mineral wealth.
His scientists claim an underwater ridge near the North Pole is really part of Russia's continental shelf.
One newspaper printed a map of the "new addition", a triangle five times the size of Britain with twice as much oil as Saudi Arabia.
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Well, this beat just goes on and on.
Diplomatic pressure, and economic blackmail in the Ukraine, the Central Asian States, new pipelines threatened or withdrawn ... collusion with Iran, threats over natural gas to europe, threats over missile defense, a threatened new cold war.
A new mobile land launched ICBM, this week a new SEA LAUNCHED SLBM and a new sub to launch it.
Sales of advanced fighters, subs and attack helicopters in this hemisphere to unfriendly powers.
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