If climate change is a hoax, then why are we buying more ice breakers? And why do we want to buy Greenland? Why this accelerating interest in the arctic? Is it just because there are natural resources up there, and the arctic has strategic military value? I mean, yes, those things are true, and they are part of the motivation. But as far as I know, the oil, the natural gas and the Russians have all been up there for a loooong time. Something must be changing, that we suddenly are focusing on the arctic. What could it be? What .... could ... it be ...???
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Eyeing Arctic dominance, Trump bill earmarks $8.6 billion for US Coast Guard icebreakers
"President Donald Trump's massive tax and spending bill earmarks more than $8.6 billion to increase the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker fleet in the Arctic, where Washington hopes to counter rising Russian and Chinese dominance.
The funding includes $4.3 billion for up to three new heavy Coast Guard Polar Security Cutters, $3.5 billion for medium Arctic Security Cutters, and $816 million for procurement of additional light and medium icebreaking cutters."
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