Interesting perspective, as usual, from John Pilger:
Above all, they want Ukraine’s mighty neighbour, Russia. They want to Balkanise or dismember Russia and exploit the greatest source of natural gas on earth. As the Arctic ice melts, they want control of the Arctic Ocean and its energy riches, and Russia’s long Arctic land border. Their man in Moscow used to be Boris Yeltsin, a drunk, who handed his country’s economy to the West. His successor, Putin, has re-established Russia as a sovereign nation; that is his crime.
Why the Rise of Fascism is Again the Issue
Oil and gas drilling in the Arctic — and the related immense problem of unstable methane hydrates in the ocean floor — was the new (to me and most readers) topic of the 2004 novel 'The Swarm' by German author Frank Schätzing, who gives real–life Earth scientists a role — and control of their professional message — under their own name in his novel. 'The Swarm' has been adapted for the big screen by producer Uma Thurman and is slated for a 2015 release.
If 'everything' now revolves around the hydrocarbons in the Arctic Ocean — even the superpower 'realpolitik' in Ukraine and elsewhere — as Pilger suggests, Schätzing may prove to be even more 'prophetic' or ahead of his time, which is, IMO at least, the damned duty of a true author.
