It may not be highly publicized, but you can bet your ass many (likely unelected) officials in the US already care and have been paying attention for some time.

It may not be highly publicized, but you can bet your ass many (likely unelected) officials in the US already care and have been paying attention for some time. The same goes for Canada, Denmark (Greenland), and the Scandanavian countries. Whether for the right reasons is a different debate; from a military standpoint, it's far too strategic of a region for them to not care. The same could be said for big business (natural resources and shipping routes). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Political_Map_of_the_Arctic.pdf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Political_Map_of_the_Arct...