{"id":154342,"date":"2024-03-14T07:00:57","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T11:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=154342"},"modified":"2024-03-13T15:20:31","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T19:20:31","slug":"everbody-claiming-everthing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=154342","title":{"rendered":"Ever&#8217;body claiming ever&#8217;thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"They&#039;re rioting in Africa\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L8-BI89mb9A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><template data-arve_cachetime=\"2026-01-13T03:30:56-05:00\" data-arve_iframe_src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L8-BI89mb9A?feature=oembed\" data-arve_url=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=L8-BI89mb9A\" data-author_name=\"WC Varones\" data-author_url=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@WCVarones\" data-height=\"375\" data-provider=\"youtube\" data-provider_name=\"YouTube\" data-provider_url=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\" data-thumbnail_height=\"360\" data-thumbnail_url=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/L8-BI89mb9A\/hqdefault.jpg\" data-thumbnail_width=\"480\" data-title=\"They&apos;re rioting in Africa\" data-type=\"video\" data-version=\"1.0\" data-width=\"500\" class=\"arve-data\"><\/template><\/p>\n<p>If you thought the world map has changed, you&#8217;re not wrong. Heck, when I was young(er) there were 122 nations in the UN, as I recall. Now the count is over 200 and probably destined to climb further. Plus, now some (mainly the despots) want to extend the territories under their control further.<\/p>\n<p>We already know about China &#8211; they decided international law doesn&#8217;t count and that their naval boundaries go &#8211; well, wherever they want them to. They have clashed with the Philippines recently, Vietnam &#8211; pretty much with whomever they share a water border.\u00a0 I seem to recall a dandy novel by Dale Brown in which war breaks out over Taiwan and the Chinese invade the Spratly Islands triggering the Philippines, too, which gets us involved in a big way.<\/p>\n<p>Then there was the pronouncement (mentioned here, too, in October) that Iran wanted to put a claim on Antarctica. No historical precedent for that one, they seem to want to jack with everyone, especially the twelve nations who signed the circa-1060 treaties that say the continent should only be used for peaceful scientific purposes. I&#8217;m trying to envision someone with a good enough parka to withstand those polar storms and a burnoose. Just doesn&#8217;t compute. But according to &#8220;frontage&#8221; theory, any nation which has any shore looking at any slice of Antarctica would have a claim.\u00a0 Iran looks west of sue south onto a bit of the continent from 8000+ miles away. As one wag put it, do they want an Icelamic Republic?<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/world\/irans-bold-claim-on-antarctica-a-direct-defiance-of-international-peace-treaties\/ar-BB1inIoM\">MSN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We won&#8217;t talk about long-standing 100 year claims like the UK and Argentina over the Falklands &#8211;\u00a0 they&#8217;re not called the Malvinas for a reason.<\/p>\n<p>Fatty da Kim has officially abandoned any peaceful reconciliation with the ROKs in January. &#8216;Nuff said.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-67990948\">BBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The one that is most fun is that Russia has claimed the North Pole &#8211; and the U.N. has endorsed it. Yeah, one more reason to love the UN.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"grid-col\n\t\t\t\t\tgrid-col-12\n\t\t\t\t\ttpl-article__layout\n\t\t\t\t\ttpl-article__layout--content\n\t\t\t\t\ttpl-article__layout--comment\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\ttpl-article-body-comment\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\" data-js=\"article-body\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"articleBodyText section\">\n<div class=\"component article-body-text    \" data-test=\"article-body-text\">\n<p>The UN\u2019s Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS) last month released a 63-page document, which states that Russia has received approving recommendations for most of its claims to seabed rights in the central Arctic Ocean. This is approximately 1.7 million square kilometers of seabed, and the area claimed includes the North Pole. Russia claims ownership of the area on the basis that it is an extension of its continental shelf, as allowed for under international law.<\/p>\n<p>The CLCS approval doesn\u2019t mean that Russia now has uncontested ownership of the North Pole seabed: other arctic nations also have pending continental-shelf bids in. The North Pole is also claimed by Denmark (through its ownership of Greenland) and Canada, and other areas of the Russian claim are, or will be, contested by the USA (based on Alaska) and Norway. If these claims are also approved by the CLCS, the various nations would be expected to settle the borders by negotiation.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2024\/03\/11\/us-nato-russia-arctic-ice-camp-clcs-continental-shelf-claim\/\">The Telegraph<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"grid-col\n\t\t\t\t\tgrid-col-12\n\t\t\t\t\ttpl-article__layout\n\t\t\t\t\ttpl-article__layout--content\n\t\t\t\t\ttpl-article__layout--comment\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\ttpl-article-body-comment\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\" data-js=\"article-body\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"articleBodyText section\">\n<div class=\"component article-body-text    \" data-test=\"article-body-text\">\n<header class=\"grid-col\n\t\t\t\tgrid-col-12\n\t\t\t\tarticle-comment\n\t\t\t\t\" data-test=\"article-comment-header\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"grid\">\n<div class=\"grid-col\n\t\t\t\t\t\tgrid-col-12\n\t\t\t\t\t\tarticle-comment__wrapper\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"e-standfirst u-heading-4   \" data-test=\"standfirst\">Negotiation &#8211; is that what they are doing in Crimea and Ukraine?<\/p>\n<p data-test=\"standfirst\">We have traditionally done show-of-forces exercises in the Arctic and our submarine fleet is far superior to the Russian Northern Fleet. Otherwise &#8211; it ain&#8217;t as pretty. They have 40 mostly modern icebreakers, we have 2 older ones. They have a large number of winter-trained ground forces, we rotate a few through training areas. For what it&#8217;s worth, their defense and armaments makers are on a war footing, we are using our stockpiles to supply Ukraine. Guess the easiest way to describe it &#8211; global warming has nothing to do with how that area can heat up in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>Just thought I would brighten up the day&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you thought the world map has changed, you&#8217;re not wrong. 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