Russia attempts to keep Arctic sea lanes open in winter

Russia has deployed its entire fleet of nuclear icebreakers to keep Arctic shipping lanes open through the winter. “The deployment sends a clear signal to the West that Russia can sustain year-round Arctic shipping and maintain its natural resource export revenues,” analyst Daniel Ivandjiiski wrote. As the new issue of the Trumpet stresses, Russia is partially isolated from global trade due to its war on Ukraine, but the calculus has changed since Vladimir Putin now leads a war economy.