Russian tankers that would normally carry oil to European customers are instead being rerouted through the Arctic to China.
It's a turbo-fash right-wing propaganda rag. To give you an idea at one point they had a who section on "black crime". It was notorious back in the 2010s as a primary rallying voice for the proto-alt-right fash. I honestly didn't know it was still going.
Yeah, like fuck you don't. Given you also posted "New book reveals Tiananmen square massacre, others fabricated by US" we know what you are.
It doesn't work during most of the year, though, unless you have an icebreaker and that's hella expensive.
The Russians do have the most bad ass icebreakers in the world. Nuclear reactor powered, absurdly powerful, able to crush through just ridiculously thick ice. They've only got one or two and as far as I know there's nothing else like them in the world.
That sounds right. They have some cool stuff up there (Murmansk is on the list of places I might one day retire to), just probably not enough to replace warm-water shipping at a similar price point.
That will definitely help, and Putin has stated he's excited about it. I'm not actually sure how long it will be until we have ice-free winters up there as well.
