dealings may very well reposition adac from the remote edge back to the strategic center in august NUMBER_TOKEN a fleet of russian ships ripped across the bering sea as part of the country's first large-scale military exercise in the region since the soviet era capturing global attention because of the operation scale and its tense incursion into the us's exclusive economic zone the military exercise was another example along with increasing fleet sizes upgraded arctic bases and new radar stations that russia is investing heavily in the arctic as is china which though not exactly arctic adjacent sees itself as a future quote polar great power and views the arctic as a region ripe for future military competition while it's hard to see climate change-induced military tension as a net positive it may very well offer a welcomed boost to adac some of the boosters or supporters in adax some with the city some with the tribe they always hope that i wouldn't say hope necessarily that things evolve to the point that i want to be a little bit careful that something like that would happen like another cold war and adac would be right there the infrastructure would be there the deep water ports would be there for them to kind of jump in and say we're we're the spot to be re-upped restarted it's looking like the military will be back sooner or later to keep an eye on the bad guys overseas and uh it's a it's it's a very strategic place because the um cove where the piers are is deep enough to house three aircraft carriers and it's the only island on the illusion chain that can conversations are ongoing as to what a return of the military would look like on the aleutian islands and most are occurring behind closed doors officials though have pointed out that a full-scale return to adac is unlikely as retrofitting and reopening the abandoned and run down facilities would cost a staggering NUMBER_TOKEN billion dollars long-timers like steve recognize that while terms like a new cold war are increasingly thrown around in conversations over the bering strait and the arctic it's difficult to imagine that adac returns to its cold war glory days still even if it's not thousands relocating to the island but a couple hundred adac would certainly welcome the windfall on the off chance the military doesn't show up at all though adac is bound to persist residents continue to leverage their retrofitted facilities talk up their surrounding fisheries welcome in marine biologists and ornithologists and tour around fishers bird watchers history buffs and caribou hunters some of these folks have they've stayed there long enough and maybe it was the wind or maybe it was something else that they've developed this rugged frontier type of attitude that we're gonna eke out a living here we're gonna stay um and whatever the ups and downs driven by the independent stubborn spirit that brought them to the island in the first place or the deep admiration for the place that develops over decades adax residents simply won't fold yeah because it has it hasn't busted we haven't busted we we refused to bust but totally refused to bust no we we are keeping this place going we are going to keep it going whether geopolitical
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