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Lmao! What a silly idea. The main competitors in the north would be us, USA, Russia, and Denmark. Denmark would lose an arms race even worse than we would and their voters wouldn't stand for it anyways. WE couldn't compete without going broke. Which leaves USA and Russia. Russia could compete with us but not with USA, they wouldn't admit it but they'd go broke too. Or broker, as the case may be.
Sovreignty in the north will be establilshed by treaty, scientific research, and PR. Planes are just window dressing.
True, Treaties and laws will be passed, but the Russians respect force and stregnth. You don't need to be able to defeat Russia. You just need enough capaility to give it a bloody nose and knock out a few teeth to get them to reason. Once that is done the Russians will listen to reason.