Posted on 09/08/2015 5:32:04 PM PDT by markomalley
President Obama’s urgent call to construct a new fleet of heavy Coast Guard icebreakers to monitor the contested Arctic is belied by his recent budgets that slashed funding for even one new ship.
Mr. Obama, in a game of polar ice chess with Russian President Vladimir Putin and his 40-plus icebreakers, made the gap one of his themes as he toured Alaska last week. Officials say the U.S. needs to keep pace in the face of an increasingly serious challenge by Russia, which is making new territorial claims on the Arctic.
But even by the White House’s own internal projections, one new ship would not enter service for another decade, not in time to take over for the nation’s only remaining heavy ice breaker now in its last years of use.
By next decade the U.S. will have no heavy ice breaker, while expansion-minded Russia, with a considerably larger Arctic border, owns six nuclear-powered ice breakers — four of which are operational and 40 overall.
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Right?
AHA! THIS is where all the heat is trapped!
Ice is caused by Global Warming.
All that open water will be nice for the Russian oil drilling platforms.
Good thing the USA won’t be taking the blame for producing that dirty greenhouse-gas spewing global-warming oil.
Where is Hillary’s famous Reset Button? When she pulled that embarrassingly lame stunt, Putin knew the U.S. was now run by fools and he and the Chinese government hit overdrive in building their military might.
What a disaster Obama and Hillary have been!
Here’s my favorite “ice-breaker” for social gatherings:
“In the war on terror, who’s side is Obama on?”
Correct, and now we face the breaker gap. Actually true.
Global warming means no ice, why build ice breakers if there will be no ice?
The ice isn’t melting fast enough. Smaller chunks melt faster than larger chunks.
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