Icebreakers Aff
A type of naval vessel used to break up sea ice to create new sea lanes
What is an Icebreaker?
The two countries the US wants to check in the Arctic
What are Russia and China?
President Trump threatened to make this country the 51st state
What is Canada?
This is the amount of money the US is authorized to borrow, set by Congress, which must be reauthorized from time to time
What is the debt ceiling?
This organization is one of the foremost players in climate policy
What is the Arctic Council
the idea that the US is the unipolar leader of the globe
What is Hegemony?
The type of instrument used to monitor the climate from space
What is a satellite?
This term describes negotiations between two or more countries
What is diplomacy?
What is political capital?
This country calls itself a "near-Arctic State" but is not a member of the Arctic Council
What is China?
The idea that a non-US country wants to shift the global world order to put themselves on top
What is revisionism?
Lack of this commodity triggers the resource war outlined in advantage 2
What is food?
President Trump offered to buy this semi-autonomous territory from Denmark
What is Greenland?
Winning an election, particularly by a wide margin of the popular vote, confers this on a president, allowing him to enact his agenda
What is a mandate?
These countries are the members of the Arctic Council
Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden, and the United States
This substance is the bedrock of sustainable economic growth
What is steel?
This is what the acronym REM stands for
What are Rare Earth Minerals?
The sitting president of Russia
Who is Vladimir Putin?
This is a tax imposed on imports from another country, affecting the prices paid by consumers
What is a tariff?
These are three reasons the Arctic Council is "cooked"
Trump, Ukraine invasion, and distrust
This country, invaded by Russia in 2022, put the US/Russian relationship on the brink of war
What is Ukraine?
These are the four impact scenarios of the 1ac
What are Russia War, China War, Food War, and Warming?
This former secretary of state and presidential candidate called for a "reset button" on Russian Relations
Who is Hillary Clinton?
The US dollar's influence on the international system of monetary policy
What is dollar hegemony?
This country took over leadership of the Arctic Council in 2023
What is Norway?