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Foreign Affairs

DENVERPOPS

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Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Wed Jun 18, 2025, 03:24 PM

Jun 18

"Moscow regards control over Arctic regions as essential for securing its status as a great power."

Trump's noise about taking Iceland, Greenland, Canada???????? Putin wants those countries for Russia's long range plans for mining raw materials, and a controlling a new Northern trade route in the future, bypassing Panama Canal....... So he is leaning on his comrade to acquire them for him....

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Guess Pootie-Poot needs a second front on which to suffer huge losses. nt Grokenstein Jun 18 #2

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I guess it's time for the Ukrainians to step in and help their Finnish neighbors? And I thought Finland is SWBTATTReg Jun 18 #4

An agreement? Bayard Jun 18 #5