• Serinus@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    The point is to water down and normalize the concept of imperialism to serve Russia.

    The same thing they did with “impeachment” and “coup” and pardons.

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      22 hours ago

      I don’t think the US threatening to take over other countries is somehow related to Russian imperialism.

      It’s quite literally the same old US imperialism that has always existed, only less sugar coated.

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          20 hours ago

          I don’t disagree, but it’s pretty weird that Americans always try shifting the blame or motivation around rather than admitting their own questionable behavior.

          US being authoritarian? “Must be related to them Russians!”

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            19 hours ago

            It’s the same play they’ve run constantly for twelve years. I only named three, but there’s plenty more.

            “Biden crime family”, Obama playing golf all the time, Biden as a sex pest.

            It’s always cover for what they’re actually doing. And the “they” in this case happens to not be the US directly.

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    2 days ago

    Greenland has the nearest coastline to the North Pole, and Denmark argues that the Lomonosov Ridge is in fact an extension of Greenland.

    According to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, this would mean that through the extension of it’s continental shelf, Greenland basically has control of the seabed of most of the arctic ocean and deep into russian waters. This gives it exclusive rights to resources on or below the seabed of that extended shelf area.

    Greenland thus is not only important for the control of northern trade routes that are opening up because of climate change, but because it comes with the control over huge swathes of resources on or below the arctic seabed.

    It’s all about oil and minerals.