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Russia Deploys Troops, Robots Along Entire "2nd Middle East" Arctic Belt
On the heels of Sweden's military deployment (following the discovery of a damaged Russian sub), it appears Russia is taking no chances with its access to Arctic resources.As Reuters reports, the Russian defense minister announced today that Russian military units will be deployed along the entire Arctic border from Murmansk to Chukotka in 2014.
Interfax adds that combat robots are also being deployed to protect Russian oil and gas infrastructure in the harsh environment of the Arctic. This should be no surprise as The Guardian notes, the Arctic’s hydrocarbon resources nevertheless exert a powerful pull. It has been compared to "a second Middle East", with oil and gas reserves thought to represent 17% and 30%, respectively, of the global total.
This of course, is nothing new...
On 11 October, in an attempt to forestall such criticism, the Russian defence ministry announced plans to build “a regional environmental centre [...] to prevent pollution in areas where Russian forces are deployed”. Russian troops systematically receive “training and briefings on environmental safety and compliance with legislation”, deputy minister Dmitry Bulgakov added. But it will take more than this to reassure the western powers.
But is a major escalation along such a massive border...
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And finally, Interfax reports, Combat robots to protect Russian oil and gas infrastructure in Arctic
Undersea combat robots will be protecting Russian oilrigs and transportation networks in the Arctic region at some point, Deputy General Director of the Russian Foundation for Advanced Research Projects, Chairman of the Foundation's Scientific and Technological Board Vitaly Davydov told Interfax-AVN.
"The Foundation is not designing robotic sharks but it is working on undersea robots and autonomous gadgets capable of protecting infrastructure, controlling the waters and detecting, tracking and, if necessary, destroying a potential enemy. The prospective machinery may be deployed on the sea bottom and specialized submersibles," he said.
So far, the Foundation is focused not so much on defense issues as on mineral development projects, Davydov said.
"The rivalry in this region will be centered on its natural resources. A key task to be solved in the Arctic is access to mineral resources, first and foremost, hydrocarbons. This goal can be achieved through the completion of numerous tasks in the discovery, production and transportation of resources, sub-glacial operations and infrastructural security. This is the target of the Foundation's research programs," he said.
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As The Guardian concludes, The Arctic, which is governed by international maritime law, is also the focus of other disputes. Canada regularly carries out military exercises in its Arctic territory. Relations between Ottawa and Moscow have cooled significantly since the start of the Ukraine crisis.
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Ice Station Zebra
TOTAL RECALL
Wasn't TOTAL about to cut Exxon out of the arctic explorations?
Sanctions of convenience.
Wheres my snowplow?
RIPS
Ice Station Zebra 2.0.
Perhaps Presdent Obloa can play the role previously played by Rock Hudson.
An ass pirate should have no trouble duplicating another ass pirate.
Eskimos will become the new Saudis. I can see it now... King Nanook in a solid-gold igloo.
~"Russian defense minister announced today that Russian military units will be deployed along the entire Arctic border from Murmansk to Chukotka in 2014."~
Oh boy, that's bound to make a lot of Russian servicemen happy. And think, just in time for winter.
I want a Tauntaun.
I never realized how much Hoth resembes upstate NY in February.
pods
Tauntaun isn't bad if you sautee it and serve with a cream sauce. Ice wine is the obvious pairing.
When my wife was pregnant, she almost killed me for frying up some butterflied venison loins. From what Han said, I don't think I could pull off the Tauntaun.
:)
pods
That “combat robot” thing..
This is where we jump to places that we do not want to be.
Sony AIBO now barks in Russian you know?
Sweden: That's those peeples who gave out the Piece Prizz, right?
No go, your Tauntaun will freeze before you reach the first marker!
Brilliant, HH! ++
Whoa there, hold your Reindeer! How much around the North Pole is Neutral and designated to Santa Claus? Or to international and universal interests of being at the North Pole?
Can you open an Alan Hu's Snackbar, and not pay taxes to Infidel Imperialists?
;-)
Maybe his boyfriend George Clooney can play that part if Obola is golfing.
I guess the Navy had don't axe, don't tell back in those days.
I'm pretty sure George Clooney married an Arabian woman not too long ago.
think he is on ZH?
Let the beheadings begin
I can see it now: SHARKNADO 3 - Attack of the Robosharks
Battle Station Alpha
Call of Doody the Frozen Bodily Wasteland.
Ice Station Zionbra
Combat Robots?
OMG dey haz ROBOTS!!!
US Citizen, Press TV reporter dead in car crash near Syria 2 days after Turkey calls her a spy
http://wtfrly.com/2014/10/20/us-citizen-press-tv-reporter-dead-in-car-cr...
She was killed after reporting that the WHO is transporting CIASIS comrades from Turkey into Syria, with photos.
so sad=(
Heroic and very brave young lady.
A few months ago a family member suggested I try to get into journalism because she knows I like researching and writing articles that I send to a few friends and family from time to time. I told her I needed to be alive and at home for my wife and daughter and that the kind of "research" that I'd be interested in would be too dangerous.
That lady died searching for the truth and doing something I am unable and unwilling to do. I have so much respect for her and others like her.
She even was thinking of confronting the "turkey" intel apparatus for their claims, in person. But she was too afraid for her own life, and maybe she would not have made it back. BTW, She is an AMERICAN Citizen as well. Why are John McAISIS (who met his ISIS Buddies there) or John "HEINZ" quite on this, I wonder.
Or is it because she worked for Press TV... She was demonized.
Damn Russians are getting a little too uppity for their own good. Looks like we are going to have to rain down some humanitarian freedom missiles on them and liberate them from the heavy burden of their oil.
You try that, and see what happens...
There is no damaged Russian sub for now, our defence department has admitted they've got nothing. They're probably doing this to defang our new dreadful Communist-government which also happens to have an IS-supporter (total disaster...) from cutting the defence budget any further.
"our defence department has admitted they've got nothing"
what can go wrong?
"our defence department has admitted they've got nothing"
Now there's a shocker!
As if they ever had "anything"...."ever"...that wasn't created by them....
...using Windows 95, PowerPoint and the internet.....
Is the Defense Department copying the press releases from the CDC?
There was probably something, it was just from the wrong country... Meanwhile, the Russians are probably laughing their asses off.
Sweden's military deployment (following the discovery of a damaged Russian sub
No one has told us what nationality the sub is, no one has actually been able to find any sub, so maybe just go easy on the acusations until we know what is going on.
I can't believe Putin would run the risk of getting caugt in an incident like this.
Until now he has the high moral ground.
What if the sub is American?? just asking!
The submarine which was hit in 1982 by a 600kg fixed mine close to the current sub hunt in Sweden, released a chemical marker that only US submarines used at the time...
Dames like to play chess... No?
"the Russian defense minister announced today that Russian military units will be deployed along the entire Arctic border from Murmansk to Chukotka in 2014."
how novel ... protecting ones border ...
1 every 2000 miles.
Yeah. Those will be the operators for the 1000 killer robots in between...
Just 1000? Awwww.
Russia has been 3 steps ahead of the Anglo-Americans for years now.
I wrote this article at the Truth HQ, highlighting this very thing. I hope some here find value(as well as great humor) in its analysis.
Props to zerohedge for keeping the flame of truth brightly lit.
The Highly Amusing Western Strategy to Undermine Russia
-WW
Russia has a much more straight forward job running a Nation State while the US is deceiptful whore for global Zionism. Russia runs straight for the goal like while the Zionist's must slowly work their "magic" show on the world. Russia doesn't need a "Hollywood" component to keep the wheels turning, nor do they need to continual blow smoke up the "exceptional people"'s asses.
it is always more straightforward to be poor than wealthy. yes russia has natural resources, no, they are not wealth until pulled out of the ground and converted to credit/power.
the rothschilds warburgs and rockefellers have been running circles around russia for 90 years. who do you think unseated the czar?
i have no hate for russia and no love for empire. but let's be realistic. you might not like empire, but that doesn't mean russia is 'better' because they have none. they HAD ONE called the soviet block. they lost it. mostly due to the same factor that has destroyed most empires. GREED HUBRIS AND INTERNAL CORRUPTION. asmuch as the u.s. wants to take credit with europe for deploying effective sanctions on the soviets, they could have retained their influences until now had they not been so fucking corrupt and greedy. commnis soviet bearacracy let to the raping and pillaging of many a soviet block country. due to sheer plunder. JUST LIKE THE IMF, but far worse!.
Who set up and ran the old Soviet Empire? The same people who run the current empire. All was good until Putin started kicking the dual citizen oligarchs out. Get a clue.
Good background here:
Putin: First Soviet government was mostly Jewish Speaking at Moscow’s Jewish Museum, Russian president says politicians 'were guided by false ideological considerations.’
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/1.530857
Russian Jewish museum of Tolerance opens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIG_dtBsHw4
Texe Marr lets rip (starts with Putin's address to Jewish Museum of Tolerance):
Vladimir Putin: "80 to 85% Jews in 1st Soviet Government."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3plO343bID8
The Rise of Putin and The Fall of The Russian-Jewish Oligarchs (1/2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2Cl8lSv9Is
The Rise of Putin and The Fall of The Russian-Jewish Oligarchs (2/2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2nNtynZAiI
How Vladimir Putin came to power (full documentary) Russia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpiZw1R8w-c
Vladimir Putin Full Length Documentary: The Putin System
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5Rkom1RpKA
Peace
so it seems you did a good job reading that first article. about how putin essentially says that it was actually JEWS WHO KILLED JEWS AND REPRESSED JEWS IN RUSSIA. RIGHT?
CLEARLY YOUR ONE WORLD ANTI-SEMITIC view blinds you from seeing that even putin gets the notion that not all jews are the same as not all christians are.
soviet bolsheviks literally orchestrated the killing of traditional jewish folks in moscow. that , and moving them all to siberia . sanctioning soveit 'repression' against them as well---meaning murder and expropriation.
superb
Came here for the anti-joos comments. Not disappointed. Well done.
Greedy Canadians....
Nobody takes the Canadians seriously. Not even themselves...
He?
"The foundation is not designing robotic sharks..." Said the Deputy General Director (DGD)
So does this mean they actually are designing robotic sharks? They'd better have fricken laser beams on their heads.
"However, the DGD went on to state that Russian scientists were working on a scaled-up Intercontinental Ballistic Sharknado."
Are these reserves positive cash flow? Of course, in a Ponzi scheme, that is not an absolute requirement.
funny how Russia preparing to defend itself from an expansionist NATO is "aggression" aint it?
Right out of the Israeli playbook - offense is defense, and resistance is "terror" and "aggression"
Orlov is on fire today.
How to start a war and lose an empirehttp://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2014/10/how-to-start-war-and-lose-empire.h...
I'd paste in some highlights but the whole thing is good.
The Orlov's rant is very insightful, thanks for sharing the link!
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Outstanding! Thanks for the heads up.
While our guys are lost on the Potomac in a over budget apocalypse now in pbr streetgang. Looking for the wrong character from the stand. Aka the golfing dude
o/t
The ADL and AIPAC are heavily criticizing a presumptively shitty opera on CNN at the moment:
The Death of Klinghoffer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaBe sure to go see it.
Censorship in Hollywood: Celebrities Being Blacklisted by Pro-Israeli Media?
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/oct/20/the-death-klinghoffer-new-y...
I've seen that opera. The real problem with it (aside from being by John Adams, whom for most people is an acquired taste in music) is that it isn't in perfect lockstep with the propaganda. It dares to challenge the winning side's behavior regarding the loser's. Can't have any fairness, can we?
Robots? Underwater robots? Russian underwater combat robots in that cold, cold water - have to restock them with vodka every 30 days.
restock, vodka, snowplow???
Whilst the west has overtly stomped across the middle-east for the black gold with their land based military might, imagine the oceanic technology the sleeping giant has amassed over the decades; combat robots may be just the tip of the iceberg, they've probably got octupus powered pipe laying platoons.
If there ever was another cold war, instead of air power, the victor will control the depths.
When the earth pivots on its axes that region will become tropical....
Not sure this can be exploited.
Me thinks Russia is simply switching on the military fiat button as global trade implodes.
Therefore it can have a internal customer for its existing oil and other raw materials
THE IEA has already reported a steep rise in Russian Jet Kerosene demand in its september report (if of course you wish to believe the scarcity merchants)
That's gonna be sweet duty.
"The Russian demand data has surprised on the upside recently, with approximately 3.7 mb/d of products delivered in July, 90 kb/d above the forecast cited in last month's Report. A combination of strong July gains for residual fuel oil, 'other products' and jet/kerosene, more than offset absolute declines in gasoline and LPG, to leave overall demand roughly 1% higher y-o-y in July. This escalating-demand environment comes despite the continuation/build of Russian/Ukrainian tensions and the implementation of sanctions with the West. The Russian economy is currently expected to expand by a muted 0.2% in 2014, according to the consensus of economic forecasters quoted in early-September's Economist magazine. Such an economic outlook is down significantly on the plus 1% growth rate seen in 2013, but even this curtailment is unlikely to be sufficient to bring Russian demand growth much below the current near +1% forecast, given the strength of January-July data"
IEA sep oil report.
Are the Amerikans and Russians so desperate for oil? Who needs all this oil? We have new, improved Lower Living Standards (TM) already.
What they all really want is POWER.
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sara will keep an eye on them
If NATO gets too agressive Russia has some huge megaton nukes.
you can be sure a 60 megaton nuke test in international waters would cause the liberals to panic.
Screw the treaties when it gets tough.
It would also send the markets to new ALL TIME HIGHs
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Russia is showing us how big boys and girls play on the geopolitical stage. All we have to do is follow their lead and we would be in much better shape than we are now.
Tyler has gone full on openly compromised propoganda rag.
Tyler for the third article claims "following the discovery of a damaged Rusian sub" - and this is a blantant lie by the Tylers for the third article.
No sub has been found much less a Russian one. Now, perhaps one will be found but perhaps a sub will be found and it will belong to the UK or US.
Three times is no accident. ZH is being paid to push this deception/lie or if you can get far enough behind the curtain you will find it is compromised. There is no other explanation.
ZH refuses to publish in these lies that the Swedish navy has denied any messages were intercepted, the Swedish govt has admitted that the photo used by ZH is a fake, and the Swedish govt admits that they have no evidence that there is even a sub.
Just like George Washington was used to post an article that MH17 was shot down by Russia now the Tylers/ZH are used directly to post these lies. The question was and is, what is so important about pushing the deception/lie to damage the credibility of their held asset/tool in such an obvious manner?
Sweden just announced they may soon recognize Palestine. This sub is an Israeli sub, sent to change Swedens mind...
bully meets strong man: hey fucker, i hear to take your fucking oil,muscleboy. responding; ha, fucker look behind you. bully turns around; KAFUCKING BAM, the bully is out lights off face starring to da universe... that's how i see it, turning bully not sure of his strartgy,ha...
Canada should spend their precious tax dollars patrolling their Arctic interests with huge militarized icebreakers instead of 'sucking the American cock' in deploying useless CF 18's in Iraq/Syria .
I guess even Canadians can be bought out in this Orwellian dystopian world we live in.
As a Canadian, I think we should agree on our respective delimitation lines with our Actics friends,
Crazy Ivan
Everybody always leaves out the drunk snow machine operators...they always go for the kill at the highest eschelon of the operations, like blocking French CEO Gulfstreams...
"Robots"...like Dune's Tleilaxu axlotl tank device for cloning a ghola...the 'tanks' were women.
Methinks the robots are drunk slave operators. Vodka cheap da ?
IF/When the world gets warmer, the Arctic Ocean will become more strategically important than the Mediterranean or the China Sea. Maritime commerce and natural resource exploration in this region will outshine the Middle East. And the shipping time to between China and Europe will be cut in half. So, it is more than just energy resources at stake; but those resources will be much more accessible and much less remote than now.
Geography and international boundaries favor Russia in this area. But -unlike the South China Sea, there appears to be no boundary disputes to fret over. There is plenty of space for all the nations bordering this area in which to develop and from which to profit. There is no need for conflict here, unless the financial class currently at the top of the food chain wants "its" share of ownership and opportunity to be as disproportionately great in this region as it is for the rest of the world. That is going to be a problem.
Since The West always wants more, the Russians are serving notice that what the West has already is all that it is going to get. Preposterous, isn't it? They are preparing to defend what's theirs.
There's big oil fields everywhere, this concept that oil is a fossil fuel and is a depleting resource is complete propaganda by the US Government and the big oil producers
Maybe (note:I don't think so). But is it cash flow positive? If it's abiotic, how fast does it replenish?
Putin ought to build an artificial island on the far side of the North Pole and challenge the Canucks to knock him off it.
Now why would you ruin a good story by claiming Sweden discovered a Russian sub?
I couldn't keep reading after that.
Yeah, but the propellers were whistling a Slavic tune!
This has the makings of a great remake of The Thing
I think M. De Margerie's passing has a hell of a lot more to do with the fact that he tried to stiff-arm Exxon out of the arctic than his feeble and half hearted talks about non dollar oil trading.
Kind of like when Hugo Chavez appropriated Exxon assets in Venezuela, then suddenly he, um, "got cancer" and died.
Remember that Jim Croce song "Don't Mess Around With Jim?"
I would say don't mess around with Stone Cold Muthafukah Rex Tillerson.
Putin. Shirtless. Now drop them panties ZHers.
Yikes! It sounds like one big mysterious conspiracy. America's behind it, I can feel it! America is supremely incompetent in virtually every other sphere, but somehow they managed to get this guy killed who dared question the dollar's supremacy.
:-)
It'll be interesting to watch Vladimir prostrate himself at America's feet in 2015.
Low oil prices, a falling ruble (despite Russia spending billions attempting to prop it up). Merkel openly berating the little man in front of EU leaders. A floundering economy. Approval ratings that have nowhere to go but down.
And now - if Zero Hedge stories are to be believed - perhaps even a trapped Russian sub off of Sweden. Vlad is going to be begging for the good old days when he had a collegial, congenial relationship with the American president who said he had a 'sense of his soul'.
Amerikan Patriot must be one of those idiots with a "Ready for Hillary" bumper sticker on the back of his car. Why else would someone continually parrot her talking points regarding Russia?
Bob, I parrot the truth. You? Just blather you hear on ZH about Vladimir's new wonderful Soviet Union V2.0.
Have you ever lived or worked in Russia? Based on your post, it's obvious you've got no insight whatsoever about what's happening over there.
Which makes you a silly (uninformed) goose.
Which city do you plan on settling in? Moscow? Novosibirsk?
Reality recapitulates fiction :
See
http://andreswhy.blogspot.com/2009/02/arctic-oil-wars.html
See
http://www.amazon.com/The-Jungle-With-Clash-Night/dp/product-description...
for a high probability scenario in right now .
Add Clathrates :
http://andreswhy.blogspot.com/2013/04/petroleum-price-and-clathrates.html
http://andreswhy.blogspot.com/2014/03/underwater-lightning.html
Add Blue Smokers if you feel adventurous off-planet :
http://andreswhy.blogspot.com/2013/08/blue-smokers.html
The Arctic border isn't as big as it looks.
The map is distorted.