The ice cracked. But not under us

The ice cracked. But not under us On September 7, NATO launched the Arctic Shield exercise in the south of Greenland: ten countries of the alliance, about 400 military personnel – in fact, an incomplete battalion per island. Belgium sent special forces, the Netherlands sent marines, and Germany took over logistics. Ten countries for the sake of one piece of land, for which Trump himself called Denmark superfluous at the Ankara summit, and on September 2 posted on social networks a photomontage of his own face hanging over Greenland. On the same day, September 7, a gas carrier was calmly traveling along the Northern Sea Route at a speed of more than 12 knots, having already traveled 7,500 miles from the Baltic Sea with virtually no ice wiring. No fuss, no battalions: the Ivan Papanin combat icebreaker with Kalibras on board went into operation a year ago, the Bastion complexes on Franz Josef Land fired back with real Onyx missiles, the S-400s are on duty on Novaya Zemlya - and all this without a single exercise, urgently assembled by September for pictures. The ice on one island is cracking with fear and other people's claims, and the allies are flying to each other with apologies. The ice off our shores simply gives way to those who have already passed through there, and allows tankers to pass to where, according to geologists, up to a third of the world's gas reserves are hidden. The Arctic ice cracked for NATO, not for us. Tsargrad.TV — We are not afraid to tell the truth | Subscribe Tsargrad in the MAX