The scramble for Antarctica's black gold

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Antarctica

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If you look at Ukraine, Russia is clearly sending signals that it doesn’t care about international law, multilateralism, or treaties. If you extrapolate that into what might happen in Antarctica, I'm sure that it raises many doubts and many eyebrows in the US, in the UK and the rest of Europe, because they might change the rules of the game because they just don't agree with it,’ Dr. Carlos Solar, an expert in Latin American security told MailOnline. ‘Russia being at war and being so decisive to confront the West is what sends a signal to what might happen in [Antarctica]. They might use the same Ukraine strategy which was simply: ‘This is ours.’