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Canada's Operation Nanook (Feb-Mar 2025) deployed 650 personnel above the Arctic Circle to assert sovereignty in the increasingly contested frozen north.

The operation comes as Russia and China show growing interest in the region's newly accessible shipping lanes and vast mineral resources due to climate change.

Recent developments include Canada's $8.6M purchase of a strategic hangar after Chinese and Russian interest, and a promised $2.5B investment in northern military hubs.

The exercise revealed logistical challenges and infrastructure needs as Defense Minister Bill Blair warned that "climate change is enticing adversarial nations to engage in heightened competition" in this strategic territory.

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[–] WarlockoftheWoods@lemy.lol 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)

American rednecks: see its still cold in the artic, look at all that snow. Global warming is fake news.... I should really cover this hole in my 60 year old falling apart trailer with OSB and hang a massive trump flag on the rusty bent pole in my yard, that ll show them homos! Man thank God America is great again! I still can't afford eggs tho.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Meanwhile those in charge of MAGA (read: Putin) know global warming is real and want it to happen because it works to Russia's advantage.

That's also why Trump is warmongering over Canada and Greenland, as well as the Panama Canal: he wants to control both the canal and the Northwest Passage in order to have a monopoly on the shipping routes (short of rounding the Horn).