Comments by "Withnail1969" (@Withnail1969) on "Ask Peter: Will the Russians Create A Great Northern Sea Route?" video.

  1. That cant be true because there arent enough navy ships for that. They probably mean the cargo ships would need to follow one of their nuclear icebreakers.
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  2. Submarines cant carry containers full of goods.
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  3.  @crawkn  Unless you have nuclear icebbreakers. How many of those does the US have?
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  4. what's this about ships recouping costs on the way? doesnt happen with all the container ships that come straight here from China.
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  5.  @crawkn  im saying that its a route for cargo between China and Europe that the US can't mess with too much. we'll see how it works out.
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  6.  @aaronbaker2186  The route would be within Russia's 12 nautical mile territorial waters.
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