{"id":42122,"date":"2025-05-11T17:37:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T22:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=42122"},"modified":"2025-05-11T20:38:24","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T01:38:24","slug":"the-united-states-needs-icebreakers-to-dominate-the-arctic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=42122","title":{"rendered":"The United States needs icebreakers to dominate the Arctic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Moscow, May 12 (Sputnik) &#8211; The United States needs icebreakers to dominate the Arctic, but cannot meet this need on its own, the Wall Street Journal reported.<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The newspaper article said: &#8220;To dominate the Arctic, Trump needs icebreakers. Finland is willing to help&#8230;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.cn\/20250329\/1064740256.html\">The United States<\/a>&nbsp;is facing difficulties in building icebreakers.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Trump, who has pledged to buy or seize Greenland, sees the Arctic as a strategic area for future trade and potential conflict, and has called on U.S. manufacturers to build a new fleet of icebreakers. Finnish companies, particularly Aker Arctic, have made clear their willingness to assist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier, Finnish Foreign Minister Valtonen said after meeting with US Secretary of State Rubio that Finland and the United States are negotiating on the construction and purchase of icebreakers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Trump previously said he discussed the issue of building and purchasing icebreakers with Finnish President Stubbs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">In November 2024, former US President\u2019s National Security Advisor Sullivan said that the United States, Canada and Finland signed a memorandum of understanding to strengthen cooperation in the production of Arctic and polar icebreakers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Greenland was a Danish colony until 1953. It remains part of Denmark but was granted autonomy in 2009, giving it the right to govern itself and make its own choices in domestic politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.cn\/20250512\/1065448046.html\">sputniknews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moscow, May 12 (Sputnik) &#8211; The United States needs icebreakers to dominate the Arctic, but cannot meet this need on its own, the Wall Street Journal reported. The newspaper article said: &#8220;To dominate the Arctic, Trump needs icebreakers. Finland is willing to help&#8230;&nbsp;The United States&nbsp;is facing difficulties in building icebreakers.&#8221; Trump, who has pledged to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":42123,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5783],"tags":[25407,33234,33233,10442],"class_list":["post-42122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sci-tech","tag-arctic","tag-finland","tag-icebreaker","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42124,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42122\/revisions\/42124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}