MICHAEL WALSH NEWS Leading actors are those who maintain the world’s critical arteries. They control every one of the international trade’s major choke points.

Suez, Panama, the Baltic Sea, Strait of Hormuz, undersea cables, and the GIUK Gap (Greenland–Iceland–UK).

These trade arteries are opened, closed, and monitored according to global political priorities. Working together, governments, media, and markets operate inside this framework, not above it.

Virtually landlocked, Russia hasn’t broken this system and has never threatened the Western Alliance’s main players.

What it has done is quietly create the Northern Sea Route (NSR) that only the Russians can navigate in winter.

The bypass runs along the northern coast of Russia. It stretches from the Barents Sea in the west to the Bering Strait in the east.

The route connects the Atlantic to the Pacific almost entirely within Russian territorial waters and Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ).

This is the 200 nautical mile maritime zone over which a country has rights to resources.

Under Putin, Russia built the world’s largest nuclear icebreakers: Arktika, Sibir, Ural, and Yakutiya. The country is also constructing the even larger Rossiya. It will be capable of breaking up to four metres of ice. No other nation can replicate this capability.

The GIUK Gap remains the primary conduit for Russia’s massive naval forces leaving the Arctic into the North Atlantic.

Russia currently uses it regularly, especially for submarines and surface vessels.

Even if the U.S. gained control of Greenland, it could observe and track movements, but it would not physically block them. Russia would remain operational.

Russia’s NSR adds strategic depth. The GIUK Gap remains the primary operational artery for Russian naval movements. No global power, including the U.S., threatens Russia’s North Sea Route’s structural dominance.

Western Alliance-controlled mainstream media rarely talk about Russia’s real Arctic capabilities. They ignore Putin’s fleet of mega icebreakers for the Northern Sea Route. No other country has this capability.

The U.S. Deep State is part of the neocon network. It has remained influential even under Trump. This network is obsessed with undermining Russia economically and politically.

Putin, by contrast, rejected the old Cold War mindset when he became president. He focused instead on building real capability. This was to ensure Russia’s long-term economic strength and global trade position.

His goal was to help Russians thrive and raise their standard of living, something he has succeeded in achieving.

This practical, results-driven approach frustrates the neocon network that remains influential under Trump. It doesn’t fit their narrative-driven obsession with beating Russia.

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