In April, the Russian Navy completed the testing of a Powerful new warship: a “Combat Icebreaker.” Armed with a 76 mm cannon and with room for eight anti-ship Cruise missiles, the Ivan Papanin is the world’s first surface war ships that is specially built to fight in the frozen waters of the Arctic.
Russia knows that the northern hemisphere is the world Next Great Border. Open lucrative seams for commercial shipping mineral And energy sources that are under the ice. Some in fact estimate that the North Pole area applies just as much 22% of the untouched reserves in the world of fossil fuels. Russia, recognizing this, has one Large military structure In the Arctic. China also quickly grows its presence in the region.
However, the United States are lagging behind, so that our northern flank is dangerously exposed.
As the great American statesman Henry Clay noted a long time ago: our national security and our sovereignty, depends on our economic independence. If China and Russia succeed in dominating the Arctic, Sea and its natural resources, we as a country would be much less free.
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We are already dependent on China’s ship-building And Critical minerals Industries, and the international struggle for the Arctic has opened the door for China to grab control of even more of the mineral resources of the world – ie minerals we need for everything, from weapon systems to advanced technologies to the rebuilding of our industrial basis. In the meantime, Russia has started directly to China and Asia via the newly opened natural gas and oil North Sea routeThe demand for our own energy export is in the question of undermining.
Our opponents dominate the region. Russia implements More than 30 Diesel-Electric ice breakers and seven nuclear driven ice breakers, next to his battle for ice breakers. From 2024 it works 32 military bases in the region And quickly builds up more. China, which does not even have a territory in the North Pole area, works Five ice breakers.
For comparison: the American Coast Guard, our only armed service that IJsbrekers uses, still falters years of neglect under the BIDEN administration. It only works three Icebreakers now; One of them is almost 50 years old and the construction of the third was only completed earlier this year. Although it can patrol of its largest basis in Alaska, the service still has to rely on a Canadian basis for carrying out activities in the eastern North Pole area.
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Fortunately, President Trump turns the tide. Under the leadership of the Minister of Interior Security Kristi Name, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is a supervision of the largest arctic maritime investments in American history. And the president has proven that this is a top priority: his efforts to increase the American presence in the eastern region of Arctic, especially near Groenland, is a poof of that.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Name speaks during a press conference on 8 July 2025 at Reagan National Airport in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
President Trump’s big account has already assigned enough money for 17 new ice breakers: $ 4.3 billion for a maximum of three new heavy Polar Security Cutters$ 3.5 billion to build new medium Arctic Security cutters and $ 816 million for light and medium -sized ice -breaking ships.
And to close the ice breaker crack, the United States signed the Ic -pact With Finland and Canada last year. It creates a shipbuilding consortium between our three countries, allowing us to share expertise, train our domestic workforce and start the work to fulfill President Trump’s dedication Build a total of 40 new ice breakers.
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This is the effort of the coast guard to build an advanced ice -breaker fleet that can give American military and commercial ships, permanent access to the North Pole area and directly compete with Russia and China. These powerful new ships will cut through the Arctic Sea ice cream and open the road for America to drastically expand its presence in the northern hemisphere. Every time one of these cutters of an American shipyard is launched, our nation becomes much safer.
The Big Beautiful Bill from President Trump has allocated enough money for 17 new ice breakers: $ 4.3 billion for a maximum of three heavy polar security cutters, $ 3.5 billion to build new medium Arctic Security Cutters and $ 816 million for light and medium -sized ice -breaking ships. (Smith Collection/Gado/Getty images))
President Trump and secretary call it clear why all this is necessary – and immediately necessary. Some of the first trips that Secretary Name after her appointment to Alaska, underlines the importance of the presence of the Coast Guard there for American National Security.
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The Coast Guard Authorization Act has also been adopted by both the house and the Senate. Once signed by the President, it will not only expand our historical investment in the coast guard, but it will also create a secretary of the coast guard who will report directly to the White House and the Congress, which will be held with his colleague branches of the army and several layers of unnecessary and cumbersome bureaucracy.
Thanks to President Trump and Secretary, the Coast Guard will be rebuilt in the best maritime Vechtkracht in the world. It will help our northern flank to protect our opponents – the protection of coming generations of American sovereignty, safety and economic prosperity.
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