|
Russia to declare war on Canada (pg. 2)
|
View this Thread in Original format
| VERTiG0 |
| Airborne lasers do! |
|
|
| Abercrombie |
| quote: | Originally posted by VERTiG0
Airborne lasers do! |
send in the sharks with frickin laser beams |
|
|
| VERTiG0 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Abercrombie
send in the sharks with frickin laser beams |
aw hayel yayah |
|
|
| DigiNut |
| quote: | Originally posted by geroin
So just because I live here I have to completely agree with all Canadian government policies and decisions? :rolleyes: |
| quote: | Originally posted by FunkyCrew
yeah srsly :rolleyes: |
It begins... |
|
|
| FunkyCrew |
| quote: | Originally posted by DigiNut
It begins... |
| quote: | Originally posted by FunkyCrew
just because some of us are of Russian descent doesn't mean everyone is 100% behind the Russian govn't |
:gsmile: |
|
|
| OkiDokie |
| Seriously, this can turn in something pretty bad.:nervous: |
|
|
| spitty |
| anyone have a map or know what specific areas are under debate? |
|
|
| yankeeBaby |
| quote: | Originally posted by DigiNut
It begins... |
lol I was thinking the same thing.....this thread is most likely headed in a bad, bad direction.....:nervous: |
|
|
| iant56 |
| quote: | Originally posted by spitty
anyone have a map or know what specific areas are under debate? |
I'm pretty sure this sum's up whats going on at the north pole.
 |
|
|
| geroin |
"Russia is claiming a large extended continental shelf as far as the North Pole based on the Lomonosov Ridge within their Arctic sector. Moscow believes the eastern Lomonosov Ridge is an extension of the Siberian continental shelf. The Russian claim does not cross the Russia-US Arctic sector demarcation line, nor does it extend into the Arctic sector of any other Arctic coastal state.[1]
On December 20, 2001, Russia made an official submission into the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf in accordance with the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (article 76, paragraph 8). In the document it is proposed to establish the outer limits of the continental shelf of Russia beyond the 200 nautical mile Exclusive Economic Zone, but within the Russian Arctic sector.[18] The territory claimed by Russia in the submission is a large portion of the Arctic, extending to the geographic North Pole.[19] One of the arguments was a statement that Lomonosov Ridge, an underwater mountain ridge passing near the Pole, and Mendeleev Ridge are extensions of the Eurasian continent. In 2002 the UN Commission neither rejected nor accepted the Russian proposal, recommending additional research.[18]
MIR submersible.
On August 2, 2007, a Russian expedition called Arktika 2007, composed of six explorers led by Artur Chilingarov, employing MIR submersibles, for the first time in history descended to the seabed below the North Pole. Here they planted the flag of Russia and took water and soil samples for analysis, continuing a mission to provide additional evidence related to the Russian claim of the mineral riches of the Arctic.[20] This was part of the ongoing 2007 Russian North Pole expedition within the program of the 2007–2008 International Polar Year.
The expedition aims to establish that the eastern section of seabed passing close to the pole, known as the Lomonosov Ridge, is in fact an extension of Russia's landmass. The expedition came as several countries are trying to extend their rights over sections of the Arctic Ocean floor. Both Norway and Denmark are carrying out surveys to this end. Vladimir Putin made a speech on a nuclear icebreaker on 3 May 2007, urging greater efforts to secure Russia's "strategic, economic, scientific and defence interests" in the Arctic[21].
In mid-September 2007, Russia's Natural Resources Ministry issued a statement:
“ Preliminary results of an analysis of the earth crust model examined by the Arktika 2007 expedition, obtained on September 20, have confirmed that the crust structure of the Lomonosov Ridge corresponds to the world analogues of the continental crust, and it is therefore part of the Russian Federation's adjacent continental shelf." |
|
|
| Special K |
| quote: | Originally posted by VERTiG0
Don't worry, when we go to "war" we'll intern all of the Russian speakers, just like the Americans did to Japanese people in WWII! |
canadians had internment camps of their own too |
|
|
|
|
