You and I are talking about different parts of the elephant here.
The idea of Russian foreign policy dictated by a desire to secure ice-free ports goes back to the geopolitical theories of Mackinder and Mahan, who worked in the nineteenth century. They were talking about
the Czar's Russia, way before the time of Communism. This is classic political geography theory, I took graduate courses in it. In those days, Russia had huge amounts of petroleum, but didn't know it and oil had suddenly become a strategically important mineral due to the class of oil-fired steam turbine battleships that had just been invented and were revolutionizing naval warfare.
Didn't you ever see "Reilly, Ace of Spies" ?
I'm staying away from more contemporary events because they degenerate into pointless political arguments like this one.
Current Events » in reply to re: Russia has ice-free ports
Whooa, Tovarisch.
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