#articcircle — Public Fediverse posts
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"The Russian attack on Ukraine has had major consequences thousands of miles from the battlefields. Since Russia launched its invasion in 2022, the state that contains around half of the total landmass above the Arctic Circle has been effectively excluded from the field of transnational Arctic cooperation.
Regardless of the merits of temporarily cutting Russia off, it is the Arctic’s indigenous peoples — with longer histories in the region than the states within whose borders they now find themselves — who have suffered most from the decision and from the broader Arctic fallout of the conflict.
During that time, they have been recruited for war, seen connections across state borders severed, and suffered from a “pause” of the Arctic Council, an international forum where they had fought for representation."
https://jacobin.com/2025/03/ukraine-war-arctic-indigenous-russia
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Fast forward to 2024, I feel like that's clearly where we remain on COVID. Perpetually demonstrating collective ignorance on basic factors, core to mitigating the dangers this pandemic poses to each of us.
The latest demonstration of this, a ship full of 100 passengers went on an Artic Circle expedition this August. There were zero COVID tests. No medicine. And no one in charge advocated for the sick or healthy alike to wear masks.
https://www.donotpanic.news/p/the-arctic-plague-ship-that-disabled