Russia seizes on Suez blockage to promote merits of Arctic route

Deja Vu Jimmy Carter.
And Putin would enjoy debating Biden on that. He’d eat his lunch in an impromptu debate.
what do i always preach?
realpolitik =now you get it -human rights is at best a side show, the interaction of nations is about power relationship. economic or military (hard and soft power)
 
As the route becomes increasingly free of ice due to climate change, Moscow is planning to use it to export oil and gas to overseas markets. On Thursday, Russia’s weather monitor said the route was “in some years almost completely free of ice” by the end of the summer, having reached a “record low level” of ice cover in 2020.
 
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Russia cheekily pushed the Northern Sea Route on Thursday as an “alternative” to Egypt’s Suez Canal after a huge container ship blocked the busy shipping lane. President Vladimir Putin has long promoted the passage along the country’s Siberian coast as a rival to the Suez Canal, and Russia seized on the Egyptian route’s traffic jam to play it up again. The Japanese-owned, Panama-flagged MV Ever Given got stuck Tuesday during a sandstorm, blocking the waterway that connects the Mediterranean with the Red Sea and which handles more than 10 percent of global maritime trade.

Russia’s nuclear agency Rosatom on Thursday gave three tongue-in-cheek reasons “to consider Northern Sea Route as a viable alternative to the Suez Canal Route”. The first reason, Rosatom said on its English-language Twitter account, was that the Arctic passage provides “way more space to draw peculiar pictures using your giant ships”. Rosatom included a link to a news article that reported that a tracking map showed the giant ship had made the shape of male genitals before becoming stuck. If ships get stuck in the Northern Sea Route, Russia would send ice-breakers to help dislodge them, said the nuclear agency, which is the passage’s official infrastructure operator.

Rosatom also posted an animated image from the “Austin Powers” series depicting its main character stuck in a shuttle car reversing back and forth in a narrow tunnel — photoshopped with the Panama-flagged vessel. “You might get stuck in the Suez Canal for days,” the nuclear agency said. A Dutch salvage firm that has sent experts to help move the Suez ship said Wednesday that recovering it could take days or weeks.

Russia has invested heavily in the development of the Northern Sea Route that allows ships to cut the journey to Asian ports by 15 days compared with the conventional route through the Suez Canal. As the route becomes increasingly free of ice due to climate change, Moscow is planning to use it to export oil and gas to overseas markets. On Thursday, Russia’s weather monitor said the route was “in some years almost completely free of ice” by the end of the summer, having reached a “record low level” of ice cover in 2020.
http://north-africa.com/2021/03/egy...thern-sea-route-as-alternative-to-suez-canal/

There's 1 problem with that....

iu
 
Not exactly as a order of President H.W. Bush. Yet the Panama Canal is administered by Panamanians with thus far peaceful relations with U.S. trade routes, etc. To clarify accusations against President Carter's intent in relation with the Panama Canal Zone and the subsequent efforts to ensure this area if accessible to U.S. trade, etc.:

The Carter administration revisited many of these issues with Congress when it negotiated the implementation legislation for the Torrijos-Carter Treaties. Carter signed the implementation legislation into law on September 27, 1979.

The Torrijos-Carter Treaties allowed the United States to defend itself from charges of imperialism made by Soviet-aligned states. While the treaties represented a great moment of cooperation between the United States and Panama, relations between the two countries grew contentious after the death of Torrijos in 1981. In December of 1989, President George H.W. Bush ordered an invasion of Panama to remove Panamanian leader Manuel Noreiga from power. By 1999, however, relations had grown more peaceful and the Canal was turned over to the Panamanians who have administered it ever since.

https://history.state.gov/milestone...nt Jimmy Carter's,control of the Panama Canal.

They put Noriega in jail and he died of a heart attack or something.
 
As the route becomes increasingly free of ice due to climate change, Moscow is planning to use it to export oil and gas to overseas markets. On Thursday, Russia’s weather monitor said the route was “in some years almost completely free of ice” by the end of the summer, having reached a “record low level” of ice cover in 2020.

Did you read that article? It's likely to get a lot colder soon enough.
 
Yeh that and Cambodia, Laos and East Timor!!
Kissinger has been called a war criminal many times -however he came up wit the China card (triangulation)
against the USSR.
So take him for his practical aspect of geopolitics , and history can condemn him otherwise
 
Kissinger has been called a war criminal many times -however he came up wit the China card (triangulation)
against the USSR.
So take him for his practical aspect of geopolitics , and history can condemn him otherwise

It was his idea to bomb the Ho Chi Minh trail, use dioxin and cluster bombs, so I believe.

He was also instrumental in handing over East Timor to that psychopath Suharto.
 
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It was his idea to bomb the Ho Chi Minh trail, use dioxin and cluster bombs, so I believe.

He was also instrumental in handing over East Timor to that psychopath Suharto.
sounds more like Curtis Lemay- who knows?
Vietnam is why Kissinger isn't a great man -doesnt mean he didn't understand geopolitics however
 
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