Natalia Hernandez 9th. U.S Builds Arctic Spy Network as Russia and China Increase Prescence

    Climate warming is real. So very real, indeed, that it now demands our military attention, why? The Arctic is melting and opening new sea routes through the glaciers and the ice cap. This is great news for some industries that want to exploit its resources like oil, or like the trade industry, where boats can now cut time travel by as much as half by following the sea routes to the Arctic instead of having to travel all the way down to the Panama Canal, or the Suez Canal for example. However it also means that countries will be wanting to lay claim to those waters, and America's fiercest competitors are not wasting a single heartbeat's moment. That's right, Russia (which has the largest Arctic coastline) and China are expected to be familiar sights in the Arctic (among others like Norway, Denmark, Finland etc.) So what is the response from us? Well it looks like we're now delving into raw intelligence from Canadian listening posts and Norwegian ships, without mentioning spy satellites orbiting overhead and Navy sensors deep in waters. Chinese warships coming down through here and Russia rebuilding former soviet-era military bases there. Are we

    While I agree that being informed of one's borders is essential, this sounds dramatic to me. The way that I see this, is as a sort of "revival" to the Cold War paranoia, or in essence a situation where the U.S gets a little nudge from the other countries and it tries to return the nudge as a bump and then its picked up as a cuff and then a gentle punch, then a not-so-gentle punch until its all-out fists. Those five Chinese Warships? Yeah they had the audacity to sail through international waters in the Bering sea down to Aleutian islands. They posed no threat, and yet the Pentagon practically kept their eyes glued on the screen tracking these ships.

    Do not misinterpret my slight indignation, it has nothing to do with me being against "better safe than sorry." If anything, I'm for being safe than sorry. But the approach that the U.S is taking is its usual "International Police" sort of way. American Exceptionalism is real too! (in a sense that it really isn't) and we should really deviate from that idea that we must keep all other countries in their place, because we aren't any better than them (see Abu Ghraib) and we shouldn't think we can. Cooperation is ideal, where countries decide when enough is enough and when things can be accorded on democratically and diplomatically, rather than giving off this hostile vibe that really only accomplishes nothing but international unrest. We shouldn't spy on other countries and bark "hey! hey!" when we think they're starting to get close to our shiny new Arctic coastlines, it should be accorded where they are and enforced when they must be, but an aggressive "Look at how much I have going on/I have my eye on you, don't you dare" hasn't shown to give very many positive outcomes.

 http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/us-builds-up-arctic-spy-network-as-russia-china-increase-presence/ar-AAe2te6