Putin Lays Claim to North Pole?

J.J. Jackson* | July 1, 2007 

Filed Under Foreign Countries

Russian leader Vladimir Putin has made an astonishing bid to grab a vast chunk of the Arctic, giving himself claim to its vast potential oil, gas and mineral wealth.

His audacious argument that an underwater Russian ridge is linked to the North Pole is likely to lead to an international outcry.
Some commentators have already observed it is further evidence of growing Russian assertiveness under its authoritarian president.

The Russian media trumpeted the findings of a Moscow scientific mission to the region which boasts “sensational” geological discoveries enabling the Kremlin to make the territorial claim.

Populist newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda - a cheerleader for Putin - printed a map of the North Pole showing a “new addition” to Russia, a triangle five times the size of Britain with twice as much oil as Saudi Arabia.

Wait, I thought we were running out of oil? Yes, yes, I know that most people are focusing on how Pootie Poo is making yet another power grab. But the important question here is we have been told that our oil supplies were running out! Obviously not if we keep finding more and more. What do you radical enviro-Marxistshave to say?


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One Response to “Putin Lays Claim to North Pole?”

  1. dan on July 6th, 2007 1:39 pm

    Russia’s oil boom is an interesting issue. The U.S. is one of many countries that will be interested in the production of oil in the Russian province. Here is a list i found of the companies and countries involved, as well as some other interesting info…

    http://www.whiskeyandgunpowder.com/ppc/RussianOilReport2.html

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