In the next few hours, Russian scientists hope to dive in two mini-submarines to a depth of more than 13,200 feet, and drop a metal capsule carrying the Russian flag onto the sea bed. Balyasnikov said the dive was to start Thursday morning and last several hours. Each submarine will carry three people.
The symbolic gesture, along with geologic data being gathered by expedition scientists, is intended to prop up Moscow’s claims to more than 460,000 square miles of the Arctic shelf — which, by some estimates, may contain 10 billion tons of oil and gas deposits....
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"A US submarine is entrusted with taking a British espionage agent to the top of the world, on a mission that is vital to the free world." <br />
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If anyone really thinks this is just a Russian publicity stunt, they are gravely mistaken. The first shot in the war for the arctic has been fired.
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“The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous, the essential act of warfare is the destruction of the produce of human labour”