Beyond the Cold-War Reprise of the Arctic Super-Powers. Decoding the Structural Meaning of the Ukrainian Crisis

• Main Author: John McMurtry
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The University of Akureyri 2015
• Subjects: cancer stage of capitalism; value; Ukraine; Russia; USA; Canada; NATO; Arctic; media; corporate State; scipo; hist
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/40f52e2597db418a8fb48cd5f2209f67

The “Ukraine crisis” repeats a script as old as the Cold War, of which the Arctic was one of its main theatres and that, as suggested by Irina Zhilina in her 2013 study about NATO in the far north for issue 8(1) of Nordicum-Mediterraneum, could regain such a role, were frictions between East and West to resurface. And they have resurfaced. The ongoing Cold-War-like narrative vis-à-vis Ukraine features rising attacks by corporate states and media on the traditional whipping boy of Russia. As usual, “escalating the crisis” is the other Arctic super-power: the US. As usual, alarm about “increasing lawless aggression” is projection of US policy itself.