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Re: 1958 Crisis in education

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From: JimP
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2018 15:19
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On Tue, 17 Jul 2018 14:37:36 -0700 (PDT), Quadibloc
<jsa...@ecn.ab.ca> wrote:

>On Tuesday, July 17, 2018 at 12:20:04 PM UTC-6, Dave Garland wrote:
>
>> Russia is big enough so they've got plenty of places to put factories 
>> and infrastructure (they have plenty of factories that were abandoned 
>> with the fall of the USSR). They have no reason to want to take over 
>> Canada.
>
>But those factories don't have access to warm-water ports. And they *still 
>wouldn't* have access to warm-water ports in Canada even if Russia conquered 
>Canada, because there is no land connection between Russia and Canada.
>
>So this is what Russia would have to do to benefit from Canada's ports. If 
>they're any better than Russia's.
>
>But if they're planning to threaten the United States, ports aren't really 
>needed.
>
>Remember the Cuban Missile Crisis? Now they'd have missiles lined up all along 
>the 49th Parallel!

The Bering Straight Bridge is brought up from time to time about
connecting North America with Asia.

The problem is the ice pressure as the ice exits the Arctic Ocean and
heads into the Bering Sea. The bridge supports would crumble.
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Subject: Re: 1958 Crisis in education
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