How a MAGA influencer with ties to Russia became Trumps Arctic adviser
News Source : Salon
News Summary
- Thomas Dans has backed taking over Greenland and advocated reestablishing ties with Russia, where he has business.
- He has repeatedly said, for example, that the u.s. needs more icebreakers, ships that Trump has long viewed as critical to dominating the Arctic.
- Opining so broadly on foreign policy is “far beyond” the Arctic Research Commission’s scientific mandate, said Fran Ulmer, who served as commission chair for more than nine years before being replaced by Trump in 2020.
For more than 40 years, the U.S. Arctic Research Commission has advised Congress and the president on what to study in the frigid and dynamic far north, from the environment to military security.
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