[colorado tanker]

Russia is very serious about its oil. That produces the cash that fuels the kleptocracy.

[spanalot]

“stated that Russia had “highly trained military units” “

Hey Tovarich - bring plenty of vodka - its cold up there.

[Bringbackthedraft]

Hmmm, the whiteman is stealing more Eskimo land?

[wac3rd]

Let’s see...

The US shouldn’t be involved as the “green revolution” should be full swing, according to Barbara Boxer.

Maybe we should just cede our interests to the Russians and the Canadians, we don’t need oil or gas, just bikes and tofu.

[moose2004]

I don’t think so:

http://holamun2.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/semperfidelis.jpg

http://www.military.cz/usa/navy/uss/carriers/stennis/jcs_battlegroup.jpg

http://www.mnc.com/images/SeaWolf.jpg

[arthurus]

We might as well let them have it all. By listing the polar bear as “threatened” Bush as put the whole Arctic off limits to any sort of development and energy-and-resource extraction.It is up to the Russians to get the oil and gas out up there and there is a lot of it.

[Centurion2000]

If anything they should be industrializing East Siberia

[RightWhale]

Oil/gas resource development is very difficult when bombs are falling. The only entity more capable of blocking resource development is Congress.