If I ask this anywhere else I get too many crazy responses. Isn't crazy how we all just constantly forget that a continent exists?
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devotech2 on scored.co
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The natural resource of antarctica might as well be ice because it's a giant fucking block of ice. For a majority of the resources on the continent you'd have to drill a comparable depth to the deepest mine on earth, and in some parts even deeper than that, to even touch the ground. There are a few oases that are sparse and small enough that they probably don't have anything worth diverting the resources towards.
The antarctic treaty was signed in the middle of the cold war because if either the US or the USSR put enough funding and technology into building a long term military base there (which actually is more viable than drilling there), it would fuck everything over because of antarcticas position. Namely the ussr, which was emerging as the dominant (military) power at the time. If the ussr occupied antarctica, they would shut down all aircraft carrier travel to and from the pacific and Atlantic. American Carriers are too large to fit through the panama canal, they have to go through the straits of Magellan. America didn't want that and the USSR agreed to a deal. There's also the potential for either side to shut down a sizeable portion of trade from any ships too big to go through the Panama canal. Again, namely the ussr.
Furthermore, I consider that Israel must be destroyed
The antarctic treaty was signed in the middle of the cold war because if either the US or the USSR put enough funding and technology into building a long term military base there (which actually is more viable than drilling there), it would fuck everything over because of antarcticas position. Namely the ussr, which was emerging as the dominant (military) power at the time. If the ussr occupied antarctica, they would shut down all aircraft carrier travel to and from the pacific and Atlantic. American Carriers are too large to fit through the panama canal, they have to go through the straits of Magellan. America didn't want that and the USSR agreed to a deal. There's also the potential for either side to shut down a sizeable portion of trade from any ships too big to go through the Panama canal. Again, namely the ussr.
Furthermore, I consider that Israel must be destroyed