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Is Trump not aware that Alaska (which is already in the USA) has beachfront access to the Arctic Ocean?
by ludicrousdispla 2y ago
Is Trump not aware that Alaska (which is already in the USA) has beachfront access to the Arctic Ocean?
- bluGill 2y agoThat is only a small part though. Russia has a lot more access, as does Canada. However between Greenland and Alaska the US would control shipping by controlling the choke points everyone needs to go through. (Canada and Russia would also have plenty of control). Though it makes more sense to be friends with whoever controls Greenland.
- erikerikson 2y agoThat'd be Denmark but perhaps you're allowing for that to change?
- bluGill 2y agoI'm not comfortable with empires. I don't want the US to control Guam (I'm not sure about just having a navy base), Hawaii, or other Pacific islands. I don't want France to have a land border with Brazil, and I don't want Denmark to control Greenland. I don't want the US to control Greenland though (they can either be independent or join Canada).
- AlotOfReading 2y agoThe US already controls the most important Arctic chokepoint. What's the point of a Northwest passage that doesn't go through the Bering strait? The only other Arctic chokepoint of any mercantile significance (the Labrador sea) is already patrolled by the US coast guard as part of ice patrols with Canada, in addition to US bases in the high Arctic and any US planes in Iceland.