Another upside for Russia with global warming: maritime connectivity

MAP: “Sea Change: The Transformation of the Arctic,” by Scott Borgerson, map by Bryan Christie, The Atlantic, November 2008.

Cool map showing how Russia will soon enough have its fill of useful “warm water” ports.

Russia will have plenty of logistical hubs to sell, if it plays its game right.

We can only hope that Putin gets over himself and does not return to the presidency. Russia’s economic future is bright enough to overcome the profoundly disastrous legacies of the socialist era, but not if Moscow remains delusional about the true nature of that power: it supplies some useful things, but its demand power is still small.

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[Louis Heberlein]

Wasn't it a climate period like this that drew Nordic Vikings to start trade routes across Russia to Middle East? New cities on those routes were the first phase of Russian unity. New hope now?