21 Replies to “It’s Probably Nothing”

  1. Yes, and the unflagging assertion is about as useful as the Russian flag on the Arctic seabed.
    You don’t ‘own the Arctic’ anymore than a dozen other nations, who also have their eye on resource extraction…
    Cheers
    Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
    1st Saint Nicolaas Army
    Army Group ‘True North’

  2. No worries. If Russia attacks us NATO Europe will come to our defense.
    “…a majority of the public in several European countries are firmly against intervening to support a NATO ally in the result that it’s attacked.

    “In Italy, Germany, and France, three of the European Union’s four biggest countries, more people think their country should not come to the defense of a NATO ally than think it should. Spain is pretty evenly divided, while Poland and the UK are more supportive.
    “When weighted for their populations, that suggests 52% of Europeans would be against military support in the event of a Russian attack.”
    http://www.businessinsider.com/less-than-half-of-democrats-and-europeans-would-want-to-defend-a-nato-state-attacked-by-russia-2015-6#ixzz3ewLY2EfG

  3. So the UN has sovereignty over the planet?
    Me thinks Russia is playing a little game with the unelected UN Social Technocrats.

  4. People do forget, don’t they. A Russian Erich von Manstein or Heinz Guderian will wreak havoc in Europe.

  5. Sounds like a bunch, but if you get a globe and look down over the north pole you will see that what they are claiming is in fact their northern coastal continental shelf along their multi-thousand mile northern coast…exactly what Canada and the US claim. The rub is where the claims overlap and what’s underneath.

  6. 1. Russia has the most countries sharing its borders with (14). (Tied with China.)
    2. Russia is 414 times the size of Holland.
    3. For 178 years Russia grew by the size of Holland every year.
    4. Between Norway and North Korea there is only one country — Russia.
    5. Russia has the most contiguous time zones in the world (9).
    6. Russia’s area is larger than the surface area of Pluto.
    When the USSR invalded Finland in Nov. 1939 a Finn asked; Russia is such a large country, why do they need more territory?

  7. Tryin’ to figger why my comment didn’t get past the review. Guess I wasted a lot of time.

  8. The “Arctic” is an ocean, it’s not a land mass. Can you claim an ocean? If so, then I claim the Pacific.

  9. A Russian Santa Claus that shows up drunk on Vodka, driving a Lada that’s leaking transmission fluid, and a sled dog named Vladimir in the back seat!! F$%+

  10. After all, the Nunavut are ethnic Russians. Doesn’t that give him the right to the North Pole and the rest of Canada?
    I’m just Putin It Another Way

  11. Even if successful in claiming the seabed in the Arctic ocean, Russia doesn’t have the technological wherewithal to exploit it. Drilling for oil in the Arctic is tough.

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