{"id":2229,"date":"2024-09-27T02:59:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-27T00:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/?p=2229"},"modified":"2024-12-02T00:02:35","modified_gmt":"2024-12-01T22:02:35","slug":"russia-fully-ready-for-arctic-war-with-nato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/2024\/09\/27\/russia-fully-ready-for-arctic-war-with-nato\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia \u2018fully ready\u2019 for Arctic war with NATO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Russia is \u201cfully ready\u201d for a conflict with NATO in the Arctic, the country’s foreign minister warned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Arctic is the northernmost point on Earth and includes territory belonging to eight nations. | Jonathan Nackstrand\/AFP via Getty Images <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

“We see NATO stepping up drills related to possible crises in the Arctic,” Sergey Lavrov said<\/a>, according to Russian state media, in comments for a documentary series that were first reported Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur country is fully ready to defend its interests militarily, politically and from the standpoint of defense technologies,” he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His comments mark the latest round of saber-rattling by the Kremlin, which has repeatedly<\/a> … threatened<\/a> … to<\/a> … unleash<\/a> … nuclear<\/a> … war<\/a> on NATO and its allies in recent years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Arctic is the northernmost point on Earth and includes territory belonging to eight nations: Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Canada, the United States, Iceland and Russia. All except Russia are NATO members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finland joined NATO in April last year in response to Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and Sweden followed suit in March this year, becoming the alliance\u2019s 31st<\/sup> and 32nd<\/sup> members, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even so, Lavrov warned that \u201cthe Arctic is not the territory of the North Atlantic alliance,\u201d and said other, non-Arctic countries, such as China and India, hold interests there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of Moscow\u2019s top diplomats said<\/a> last year that Finland would be \u201cthe first to suffer\u201d if war broke out between NATO and Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In February, Russia also suspended annual payments<\/a> to the Arctic Council, an intergovernmental forum of Arctic nations, after the other members boycotted Moscow’s participation following its invasion of Ukraine, though some cooperation<\/a> has since resumed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Russia is \u201cfully ready\u201d for a conflict with NATO in the Arctic, the country’s foreign minister warned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2231,"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229\/revisions\/2231"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}