before donnie, putin might have had his eye on the baltic states; now, i'm worried about alaska

[hunter]

4. It's all about arctic oil and gas.

U.S. and Russian gangster plutocrats are partnering up to control half of it and the profits will go straight into their own pockets.

Canadian and Northern Europe will control the other half, and a good portion of those profits will be redirected to climate change mitigation and social programs.

With Russian - U.S.A. cooperation the arctic circle is a pie neatly divided in half.

wikipedia

Continued exploitation of fossil fuels will of course make more of the world uninhabitable (including parts of the U.S.A), but the uber-wealthy have this misguided notion they will be able to isolate themselves from the chaos.