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Fuck the UN. What can happen to the US if the most important UN officials will be in Guantanamo by the time the first workers and soldiers arrive in Antarctica?
Well they certainly WILL complain if anybody starts building a colony in Antarctica, because that gives them yet another excuse to look away from Xinjiang.
Well with appropriate equipment it will work. Imagine heavy-duty cargo planes modified to have both wheels and skids so that they can land on ice, polar-grade ships that can turn into bases for surviving winter, Soviet-style atomic icebreakers, possibly controlled ice melting by satellite mirror and a Hyperloop for transporting ore from the inland mines to the coastal port.
Also actual domed cities - or tunnels in the ice - for habitation. There are TONS of interesting-looking bases in Antarctica and in Arctica as well. Look up the big UFO-style Russian border control station at the North Pole, or the British Halley VI station (actually a giant train on skids).
Fuck the UN. What can happen to the US if the most important UN officials will be in Guantanamo by the time the first workers and soldiers arrive in Antarctica?
Well they certainly WILL complain if anybody starts building a colony in Antarctica, because that gives them yet another excuse to look away from Xinjiang.
Theres already some "funny business" going on in Antartica.
Yes. Before doing any mining perhaps the Air Force could "warm up" Antarctica a bit.
lol
I have trouble thinking of a business that could thrive in Antarctica though.
Mining.
Even just ice, and sell the drinking water.
that seems very uneconomical
Well with appropriate equipment it will work. Imagine heavy-duty cargo planes modified to have both wheels and skids so that they can land on ice, polar-grade ships that can turn into bases for surviving winter, Soviet-style atomic icebreakers, possibly controlled ice melting by satellite mirror and a Hyperloop for transporting ore from the inland mines to the coastal port.
Also actual domed cities - or tunnels in the ice - for habitation. There are TONS of interesting-looking bases in Antarctica and in Arctica as well. Look up the big UFO-style Russian border control station at the North Pole, or the British Halley VI station (actually a giant train on skids).
lol
If America and Russia don't do it China will just claim Antarctica and start building cities and ICBM silos with slave labor.
Yeah forget buying Greenland. Let's take Antartica!!!
Well Marie Byrd Land is already a semi-official claim of the USA.