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Is the Alaska meeting about something more than the Ukraine war?

Is the Alaska meeting about something more than the Ukraine war?
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By derimot*no - Knut Lindtner - August 14, 2025

I have used KI to summarize the main content of this article by Andrei Martyanov. We have previously had articles here at Derimot about the highlands and what significance they can have – also for Norway. But the political perspective here in Norway is to intimidate Russia instead of cooperating for common interests – which is still the case in this region.

We note that Statsraad Lehmkuhl, which was supposed to follow Amundsen's northern sea route, had to make a U-turn due to the ice – again reminding us of the importance of icebreakers in opening up these areas. Here is KI's summary of the article below:

Main points:

  • The author believes that a possible Trump-Putin meeting in Alaska could lead to a major Arctic agreement between the United States and Russia.
  • The Arctic has large oil and gas reserves, and the Northern Sea Route could halve shipping time between Asia and Europe.
  • Russia has by far the world's strongest icebreaker fleet, especially through Atomflot, which gives them a unique strategic advantage.
  • An agreement would be economically enormously beneficial for both parties, but the author believes the United States is not an equal partner militarily or economically compared to Russia and the BRICS.
  • To avoid war and economic collapse, the United States should cooperate with the BRICS and accept being "just" one of several great powers.
  • Europe is described as powerless, already reduced to a spectator role, and, according to the author, has lost Russia's respect.
  • Orwell is used as a reference to the fact that it is the West and not the Soviet Union that is the target of the books 1984 and Animal Farm .

And then follows what Martyanov wrote.

Knut Lindtner
Editor

I guess they get the point...

… even in the UK – and believe me, I know what the game is really about, my boy. Just yesterday I pointed out the symbolism of the Trump-Putin meeting in Alaska – far, far away from Europe (including 404, (Ukraine, ed.) ) and close to the Arctic. Now they are speculating, while the reality, apart from the dynamics of SMO (Special Military Operation, i.e. the war in Ukraine, ed.) and Russia deploying weapons that make the entire West a completely defenseless target, is that this part of the planet actually matters. Oh yes, I can tell you – it matters an awful lot, a huge, fantastically big point:

An Arctic deal between the United States and Russia could revive energy cooperation between the two countries on an incredible scale. Such a deal would be enormously lucrative for both sides. The Arctic holds an estimated 13 percent of the world’s undiscovered oil, some 90 billion barrels, and 30 percent of the world’s undiscovered natural gas. Russia controls about half of this, with explorers pointing to 2.3 trillion tons of oil and condensate, and 35.7 trillion cubic meters of gas. It’s a gold mine tailor-made for Trump’s “America First.” Put American expertise and capital into these frozen resources, and the returns would be staggering.

The shipping potential is no less tempting: The Northern Sea Route could cut travel times between Asia and Europe by up to 50 percent. As the ice melts and Arctic shipping lanes open up, this reduction is becoming increasingly realistic: less fuel consumption, no congestion at bottlenecks, and no piracy-prone areas. Combine this with a fleet of US oil companies and Arctic logistics expertise, and Trump suddenly has a commercial deal that feels like an irresistible trophy for the boardroom.

This is written by a lawyer who is completely out of touch with the reality of the Arctic sea route, and therefore does not understand the significance of Russia’s nuclear fleet (Atomflot) and the technology behind it, including the effects of climate change on the ice, which is a pack ice that refuses to follow the “melting” forecasts of “climate crisis” hoaxers from mainly Western academic circles. As I wrote a couple of days ago, I remind you again – THIS is the factor that plays a major role, along with Russia’s newest weapons systems, in the entire process surrounding the Alaska meeting. Mark my words – it’s called Atomflot.

Atomflot consists of 11 powerful nuclear-powered vessels (in addition to a fleet of diesel-electric icebreakers) – 9 in operation, 2 under construction, including a monster of project 10510 Rossiya, capable of navigating anywhere in the Arctic, at any time of the year.

As I said – the rest of the world is nowhere near Russia in terms of icebreaking capacity and Arctic research (one of the reasons why Russians laugh at Western “climatologists”) . James Tidmarsh concludes as follows:

The incentives for both Trump and Putin are well aligned. For Trump, it would be another “Trump deal” where commercial strength underpins a political solution. Putin would keep his territorial gains and reopen the Arctic to American investment, and Ukraine would be left to make the most of a deal they did not shape. The UK and the EU would be reduced to the role of spectators.

Why “would be”? They already are, despite my warning that it is inevitable that the superpowers will find some form of modus vivendi, while the US finishes Europe off (good riddance) not as a spectator but as a meal, because America’s enormous economic problems cannot be solved in the traditional imperialist way – by starting a war. The “war-mongers” in this case will simply be wiped out along with everything they hold dear, and there is a group in the Trump administration that has realized that they had better find another solution while the sensible Putin is still around.

Obviously, the US “most people” have to be kept quiet by making them believe that the US is an equal partner here (which it is not) with Russia in the military-industrial complex and with the vast combined economic volume of the BRICS, but that’s okay – some in DC (especially military and intelligence people who have maintained their integrity) have understood that, short of outright war, the only way the US can hope for a hard but manageable landing – not a catastrophic dissolution – is to play nice with the BRICS. And maybe, just maybe, in the future, when a new generation of US politicians comes to DC, the US can admit two big facts about itself:

  1. That it lost the arms race by knockout;
  2. That it is just another superpower among equals – a very small, exclusive and prestigious club.

As for Europe – who cares, they wanted it that way, and they got it. As one member of the European Parliament said to a Russian member of parliament – we have enough dogs and police to keep Europe under control. For those who still don’t understand – Orwell wrote 1984 and Animal Farm not about the Soviet Union – first of all, he knew almost nothing about it – it was and is about Anglo-Saxon societies. Today it is about the whole of Europe.

Oh, what a historical irony! Finally, Europe has achieved what seemed impossible even ten years ago – they have made the Russians hate them.

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