After intense political discussions, the five arctic countries including Canada agreed to lessen the amount of public speaking over their rival defensive claims in the polar region, a high-ranking Russian defense official has announced plans to strengthen his nation’s military presence in the far north. When two weeks ago they agreed to calm things down a bit, but now everything seems to be going the other way. When it comes to politics and the military it seems that things never go the way as planned. After a while, it gets frustrating when you see how your country and the countries around you are being affected by decisions that you have minimum control over.

A Lt.-General named Adimir Shamanov, who is head of the Russian military’s combat training, told the news media that his country was preparing to “increase their military operations and one of the operations which would be the Northern Fleet’s submarines” and this means that they have to increase and intensify the military activity of Russia‘s armed forces in the Arctic. Is this necessary?

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