Russias' Ulteriors Motives...

Recently it was announced that Russia had claimed the North Pole as their own, and to do it all they did was plant a flag in the sea.

Now Russia claims that it is taking the pole for all the coal and oil under the ice, this just doesn't seem to fit, Russia has one of the largest land masses, and there land is full of oil and coal as it is, why would they need any more. They have enough to last them long enough before the worlds governments decide to hand over the plans for sustainable energy.

So if they are not doing it for the oil and coal then their is something else their. Now all the other world leaders seemed very angry at Russia, as if Russia had broken a promise to keep the secret 'thing' 'communal'.

What is up there? Any Ideas?

I don't have a map to look at things properly. National borders were set set at 12 miles in sea but up to 200 miles have been used in the last 20 years or so. There have been more than several incidents about naval forces and international water as opposed to national water.

Anyway, up to very recent times, the arctic region was covered with ice. It's melting for reason that do not need to be discussed here as that issue is covered by several other threads in the forum. As some point, there will be periods of ice free water to set drilling platforms.

Who owns them, for the income, is the answer. Russia, Canada, Norway, Iceland, and the USA all have claims to the area. There is no treaty in place like Antarctica. The USA actually claimed the North Pole when they "discovered" it decades ago, but that is not the issue.

I hope you don't think there is a giant hole that goes inside the earth, as others have proposed with no viable proof....

The entrance to the hollow earth?

Originally posted by hinky
I hope you don't think there is a giant hole that goes inside the earth, as others have proposed with no viable proof....

There is no photos to prove that there is not a whole, because it is plainly forbidden to show satelite pictures of the north pole by the government since many years. The evidence of the hole comes from the apollo missions pictures, that the government carefully made disappear since then. But there's still quite a few pictures left on the web if you take the time to look for them. The hole is very visible. Do you think your government would tell you if there was a giant hole in the north pole?

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