COMMENTARY: Svalbard’s strategic impact after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine

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Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 has altered Russia’s security perspectives dramatically, also with concern to the Arctic, write Turid Austin Wæhler, a researcher at UIT The Arctic University Of Norway, in High North News.

After the invasion, Svalbard, the Arctic archipelago located halfway between the Norwegian mainland and the North Pole, has again been subject to disputes between Norway and Russia regarding territorial rights in the Arctic. Should Norway fear the Russian aggression on Svalbard?

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Mark Sabbatini

I'm a professional transient living on a tiny Norwegian island next door to the North Pole, where once a week (or thereabouts) I pollute our extreme and pristine environment with paper fishwrappers decorated with seemingly random letters that would cause a thousand monkeys with a thousand typewriters to die of humiliation. Such is the wisdom one acquires after more than 25 years in the world's second-least-respected occupation, much of it roaming the seven continents in search of jazz, unrecognizable street food and escorts I f****d with by insisting they give me the platonic tours of their cities promised in their ads. But it turns out this tiny group of islands known as Svalbard is my True Love and, generous contributions from you willing, I'll keep littering until they dig my body out when my climate-change-deformed apartment collapses or they exile my penniless ass because I'm not even worthy of washing your dirty dishes.

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