Secretary of State Anthony Blinken will travel to Greenland next week and seek stronger cooperation in the Arctic as the US sees the northern region as a future battlefield with Russia and China.
The State Department said Blinken will meet with Greenland’s Prime Minister Múte Bourup Egede and other officials to discuss “the strong partnership between the United States and Greenland and our shared commitment to increase cooperation in the Arctic.”
Blinken will head to Greenland after visits to Denmark and Iceland. In Reykavik, Blinken will attend a meeting of ministers of the Arctic Council, a group of eight Arctic nations, including the US and Russia.
Blinken is expected to meet on the sidelines with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, marking the first high-level in-person meeting between US and Russian officials of the Biden administration. The meeting comes at a time of heightened tensions between the US and Russia due to President Biden’s hostile policies towards Moscow, including sanctions, the expulsion of Russian diplomats, and support for Ukraine.
Militarizing the Arctic is a key strategy for the US’s confrontational approach to Russia. Next year, Norway will host US and NATO troops for military exercises that will involve about 40,000 troops, which the head of Norway’s armed forces said will be “the largest military exercise inside the Arctic Circle in Norway since the 1980s.” Earlier this year, the US deployed bombers to Norway for the first time.
Very good analysis of the material you presented.
It’s hard for me to understand the mentality of the countries bordering the arctic (Greenland, Norway, Denmark, Finland). They seem to have morbid fear from the “Climate Crisis” and spend a lot on costly efforts to “protect Earth.” At the same time, they rabidly pursue WWIII to kill the no longer communist Russians, which is guaranteed to cause a “Climate Crisis.” What gives?
I suspect that these countries’ “pursuit of WWIII” is strongly encouraged by the U.S. diplomatic community. I further suspect that their political processes are manipulated by the U.S. foreign policy establishment so that pro-war, anti-Russian politicians occupy positions of power
No logic at all; these countries do not have independent policies when it comes to Russia.
The so-called West is rabid, arrogant, and delusional, led and controlled by the US, which is off the charts when characterizing it as rabid, arrogant, and delusional.
Well said! I couldn’t have described it better.
My question has always been with Russia, why in the hell bother, as the us has demonstrated over and over and over that it is not agreement capable.
Putin and Lavrov have said many times that they are not interested in any meetings just for the sake of a meeting, in other words, a PR stunt.
If Blink drags along nuland, it is a virtual certainty that noting of substance will be discussed, let alone part of a preliminary agreement.
They are probably working on a Biden-Putin picture pose to show he is tough on Russia: https://www.wilsonquarterly.com/quarterly/the-post-obama-world/russia-the-u-s-and-the-backstory-behind-the-breakdown/