If anything, the strategic importance of the Arctic region as a whole has the potential to be a good deal greater than it was during the decades of superpower s

If anything, the strategic importance of the Arctic region as a whole has the potential to be a good deal greater than it was during the decades of superpower standoff, driven by climate change opening up new shipping routes as well as providing access to natural resources that were previously inaccessible, or at least much harder to exploit. The Ukraine was invaded for resources.