Biden’s again asleep at the wheel while Russia invests in the Arctic.
By Daniel Kochis and Johnathan Little ~
Even though the U.S. is one of eight Arctic nations, America has not adequately invested in the region and, as a result, has not yet fully embraced its status as an Arctic power.
The opposite can be said of Russia, an Arctic nation that has invested heavily in the region. Russia recently installed a fiber optic cable nicknamed the “Polar Express” in Russia’s Arctic territory. Fiber optic cables are necessary to maintain and expand connectivity, an increasingly vital part of life in the 21st century.
The cable will span 7,860 miles from the rural, northern village of Teriberka to the port city of Vladivostok in the far east and will be completed by 2026. Its intended function is to improve connections in Russia’s far north where about 2.5 million Russians live, accounting for nearly half of the population living in the Arctic.
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