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The short answer: extremely unlikely. Contemporary talk of the United States “annexing” Canada has been driven by political rhetoric and fringe movements, not by viable legal, military, or popular rou...
has been steadily reworking the legal and practical contours of what it calls its “historic” or internal waters—from ’s Northern Sea Route to and parts of —deploying domestic laws, baseline redrawings...
Melting ice has turned theoretical lines on maps into tangible stakes — shipping through the Northwest Passage, potential hydrocarbon prizes in the Beaufort Sea, and overlapping continental-shelf clai...