Svalbard: The Other Arctic Island Flashpoint

Svalbard: The Other Arctic Island Flashpoint Authored by Paul Crespo via RealClearWire, As many focus on the world’s largest island, Greenland, and President Trump’s aggressive efforts to acquire it, another strategic Arctic island, nearby Svalbard, may be an even more likely future point of contention and conflict. Not a conflict between the United States and Denmark, or the U.S. and NATO, but between Russia and Norway, and perhaps all of NATO. Or maybe not with NATO. This i...

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