ENV250Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 35: Arctic Council, Canadian Rangers, Arms Race
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Canada siding with ukraine against russia- made russia mad. Us told russia they cant just take ukraine land. Us and russia both processed nuclear weapons - thus making the war cold. Space race - trying to get them off the moon. Ideological war: (us) democracy/capitalism vs. (russia) socialism/central planning. Dew line (distant early warning) - us created. Radar system; stretches form one situation to the next and can detect any air movement (looking for impending attack on us mainland) Set up and paid for by the us. Canada demanded air control - telling the us that they need to ask first. Really, vietnam is why americans left northern canada (prof"s opinion) To understand the arctic is to understand that it never had any intrinsic value - only instrumental (only of use for some other reason, no one cared about the environment of it) Glory, game species/fur, and military protection - all it was about.
