For the wildlife and ecosystems of the Arctic, war has already arrived.
The Pentagon Makes War on Alaska’s Pristine Wilderness
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For the wildlife and ecosystems of the Arctic, war has already arrived.
The lumbering aircraft carrier known as the United States should be executing a pivot that lives up to its name: a shift from the martial to the pacific.
The “Pacific pivot” of the United States is nothing new. At the same time, it doesn’t really exist. And yet, even though it doesn’t exist, this pivot is partly responsible for the escalation of tensions in and around the Korean peninsula. How can all three of these statements be simultaneously true? Such are the paradoxes of the U.S. shift in attention toward the Pacific Rim.