The United States provokes Russia!The escalation of the Arctic dispute, why is there so much tension?
The United States is making trouble in the Arctic!A geopolitical storm is brewing, let's uncover this shocking story together.
One day, the Russian Satellite News Agency reported that the United States had actually launched a war to seize sovereignty over the outer continental shelf in the Arctic regionI heard that Russia is about to blow up, and called it simply "unacceptable"!I thought, what kind of trouble are you going to make with this?The Arctic is not a place to be messed with, and with such a big movement, it can't be a big war, right?
This reminds me of what the United States ** Biden said in 2021, claiming that the United States would abide by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. However, in retrospect, it seems like just a dead letter. **In the statement on the 19th of this month, it unilaterally announced the expansion of the sovereignty claim to the outer continental shelf of the Arctic and the Bering Sea, covering an area of as high as 1 million square kilometers!How domineering is this?Isn't it playing with international law in the palm of your hand?
What is ridiculous is that the United States has no basis in international law for doing so. Nikolai Haritonov, chairman of the Arctic Committee of the State Duma of Russia, said directly that this is "unacceptable"!There is also the deputy chairman of the Federation Council Kosachev angrily denounced the behavior of the United States as "lacking international legal basis" on social **. All I can say is, isn't this a bit of a dog jumping off the wall?
If you think about it, according to the United Nations, claims on the continental shelf must be considered by the United Nations Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf, which was established under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. And the United States has not even ratified this convention, and it has taken such a unilateral action, which is simply ignoring international law
Russia's response is not bragging, but it is right. In the face of such provocations, they did not hesitate to point out that the United States is trying to acquire the rich resources of the Arctic region in this way. You say, does the United States have taken a fancy to those oil and gas resources in the Arctic and wants to take possession of them?
Just when I was worried about this, I realized that the area had the equivalent of 83 billion tons of standard fuel, and that there might be new large oil and gas production areas hidden there. Li Yonghui, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, also said that such a move by the United States could lead to the Arctic becoming a new battlefield for confrontation between the United States and Russia in the future. It seems that the resources contained in the Arctic are really attractive to these two powers.
The Arctic is not only a huge resource, but also an important shipping route between Europe and Asia. Compared to the traditional Suez Canal commercial route, the Arctic route can be shortened by 12 to 15 days. Looking at it this way, this is not only a competition for resources, but also a geopolitical showdown.
Nor can we ignore the geopolitical factors involved. The actions of the United States in the Arctic are actually a kind of geographical and geopolitical encirclement of Russia. This is not only to obtain resources, but also to put pressure on Russia in the geopolitical landscape and further compress Russia's strategic space. This is not a petty fight, but a challenge to Russia's entire strategy.
The issue of the undersea continental shelf in the Arctic region is already controversial, and the United States has not acceded to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, so the United States' unilateral proposal to expand its territorial claims this time is simply a challenge to the authority of international law. If the United States once again asserts its sovereignty in the Arctic in the future, it will not only deepen the confrontation with Russia, but at the same time, the countries around the Arctic are all NATO members except Russia, which may trigger a confrontation between Russia and NATO, and the situation may become even more chaotic.
However, the storm may not have had time to ferment before news came from Turkey. The Anadolu news agency bluntly noted that the possibility of a territorial dispute with Russia is looming due to the expansion of the Arctic continental shelf by the United States. It seems that this Arctic dispute involves not only the United States and Russia, but also other countries.
In short, this is not a small matter. The Arctic not only contains about 1 4 percent of the world's oil and gas, but is also associated with changes in the geopolitical landscape. Such a move by the United States is not only a provocation against Russia, but also an adventure to international law and geopolitics. In the future, we cannot but pay attention to the development of this event, after all, it may trigger changes on a global scale. May this Arctic storm not become a nightmare for the world, let's wait and see!