This article by Alexander Novak was published 14 April 2023 in Energy Policy as was the previous. It provides some of the basis for the next article dealing with energy in the overall Arctic. It’s not as long as the previous. There are many videos of Russia’s icebreakers online. This 20 minute video about the construction of the Leader Class Icebreakers demonstrates the complexity of this engineering project. Now to get to the article. All formatting original:
Thank you karlof. The northern sea route is extremely important to Russia so it might extend the linkages to the many isolated communities across those regions and enable year round supply for essentials. It alleviates poverty and profoundly integrates the Russian nation and national consciousness. It also enables a vast trading alternative for ships of the Russian or Chinese flag to trade their good. Other allies may get a share of that route as well at discounted ice breaker rates but it is likely to be less than a Suez crossing.
Importantly it is nice fu to the plundering hordes in Canada and the USA that so desperately covet those minerals and gasses and oils and broken states within Russia.
And today, to top it all off Lena Petrova brings good news:
Thanks for that news. Dedollarization continues to gain momentum as nations adopt the messaging systems of Russia, China, Iran, and now UAE. Stats released and discussed by Russia's Central Bank regarding the decline in dollar use are quite positive. IMO, by December we'll be very close to having a new system established bypassing Western control points that renders illegal sanctions useless.
Thank you karlof. The northern sea route is extremely important to Russia so it might extend the linkages to the many isolated communities across those regions and enable year round supply for essentials. It alleviates poverty and profoundly integrates the Russian nation and national consciousness. It also enables a vast trading alternative for ships of the Russian or Chinese flag to trade their good. Other allies may get a share of that route as well at discounted ice breaker rates but it is likely to be less than a Suez crossing.
Importantly it is nice fu to the plundering hordes in Canada and the USA that so desperately covet those minerals and gasses and oils and broken states within Russia.
And today, to top it all off Lena Petrova brings good news:
https://rumble.com/v4adiaq--breaking-uae-china-transaction-settled-with-digital-dirham-uae-new-cbdc-in.html
Thanks for that news. Dedollarization continues to gain momentum as nations adopt the messaging systems of Russia, China, Iran, and now UAE. Stats released and discussed by Russia's Central Bank regarding the decline in dollar use are quite positive. IMO, by December we'll be very close to having a new system established bypassing Western control points that renders illegal sanctions useless.
I see I forgot to include the link to the Leader video--oops!! Here it is, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9IO6fOI_ds