Obama en Alaska: des relents de guerre froide.

Le Président américain a mentionné le réchauffement climatique, mais son séjour en Alaska peut également être interprété comme une réaction aux prétentions de la Russie dans cette portion du globe. Une question qui intéresse également le Canada.

 ""Leaving Russia alone to shepherd shipping in the Arctic gives them even more dangerous leverage over global energy supplies," warned Mead Treadwell, a former lieutenant governor of Alaska and energy official in the George W. Bush and Obama administrations, in a recent article for the Harvard International Review.

During a stop on Tuesday in Seward, Obama will propose to speed up acquisition of a replacement for the Coast Guard's heavy icebreaker - which is also deployed to Antarctica - by two years, to 2020, as well as begin planning construction of new icebreakers. Crucially, he'll call on Congress to fund this effort. There's general agreement that new icebreakers are needed, but not on how to pay for it."

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/obama-alaska-visit-russia-arctic-circle-213234