Russian Special Forces Occupy North Pole (Ice Station Putin)

http://www.vesti.ru ^ | Alexander Sladkov

[Trumpinator]

PHOTO: Russian Airborne Troops & Belarusian Special Forces exercise near the North Pole on April 7th #Arctic pic.twitter.com/9tio2xuDF0— Missilito (@Missilito) April 13, 2015

[VanShuyten]

But, it’s going to melt under their feet.

[Iron head mike]

No polar bears to wworry about

[BeauBo]

The ice pack usually breaks up in Summer there, and there is nothing but ocean underneath, so nobody sets up permanent bases there, like we have at the South Pole.

Ny Alesund, on Svalbard (Spitsbergen) is the northernmost permanent base. Polar expeditions and tourists usually leave from there.

[SpaceBar]

Get your filthy hands off my frozen ocean!

[Don W]

Oh Justin. Justin! JUSTIN!!

Where are you, boy? Even your daddy would do something about this. Where the devil did you get to? Are you having another “family day” while the sovereignty of our nation is challenged?

Putz.

[clearcarbon]

"No polar bears to wworry about"

Gotta watch out for them elves, though.

[AdmSmith]

Russia appears firmly set on its course of militarization of the Arctic. In a region where economic activities are mostly declining and where environmental challenges are on the rise, Russia appears to be engaged in a one-sided arms race. It is glaringly obvious to observers outside the Kremlin that Russia’s severe economic recession makes this course unsustainable. Russia may aspire to Arctic greatness, but there is little there to achieve and Russia is unlikely to be able to achieve it.
http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/order-from-chaos/posts/2015/08/27-russia-arctic-geopolitics-baev

Putin:
“I have said in the past, and want to stress this point again now, economic growth does not get underway again all on its own. If we do not find new growth sources, we will see GDP growth of around zero, and then our possibilities in the social sector, national defence and security, and in other areas, will be considerably lower than what is needed for us to really develop the country and make progress.”
http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/51996

Actually, the GDP is not even zero it is shrinking at an accelerating rate:
It should be pointed out, however, that Rosstat’s estimate of the rate of negative growth in the first quarter (-0.6 percent compared to the fourth quarter) is not official: due to a revision of its methodology, Rosstat has altogether stopped publishing data about seasonally adjusted and calendar-year adjusted GDP after 2011.

http://imrussia.org/en/analysis/economy/2562-sergey-aleksashenko-no-good-news-for-russia%E2%80%99s-federal-budget,-but-the-government%E2%80%99s-in-no-hurry

[OldNewYork]

Looks like they’re having fun.

[fella]

How does one navigate there since all directions are south? On the up side you can circumnavigate the globe simply by spinning around.

[cynwoody]

Rosatomflot — 50 Years of Victory
At the 88th Parallel

[Joe Boucher]

yeah,
how much is Russia spending to protect this ice from an invasion. Most probably those Peruvians causing trouble in the Arctic, again.

[bill1952]

Celestial navigation.
Classic aviation exercise

[varon]

WTF...........is that thing made out of Legos?

[cavador]

They are looking for the entrance to hollow earth!

[Covenantor]

Ah yes, the secret clause of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, defining spheres of influence. Germans got the secret bases at the South Pole and now Russia is reclaiming the North.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks AdmSmith.

[Regulator]

Comical

[Iron head mike]

Moose bites are also painful. Just ask my sister.

[Travis McGee]

This is one of the flicks that Howard Hughes watched over and over. Good cold war flick.