I wonder what the knock-on effect of this will be on human trafficking. Is the route so cold migrants would freeze in the containers? Would traffickers care once they have their cash? Will the use of smaller ports make it easier to smuggle drugs and people given they're less likely to have the most current scanning technology? A lot of questions, only one with a definitive answer. (Nope, traffickers won't care as long as they get paid.)
You're right, hopefully the victims would be smart enough to avoid it, and the exploiters want to make as much blood money as possible from the people they traffick and force into slavery. I've got human trafficking on the brain at the moment, can't stop thinking about all the poor souls sucked into lives they never asked for.
More strategic implications for the Nordic members of NATO.
The Bering Strait then becomes a bottleneck/chokepoint, with USA and Russia directly opposing each other...
I wonder what the knock-on effect of this will be on human trafficking. Is the route so cold migrants would freeze in the containers? Would traffickers care once they have their cash? Will the use of smaller ports make it easier to smuggle drugs and people given they're less likely to have the most current scanning technology? A lot of questions, only one with a definitive answer. (Nope, traffickers won't care as long as they get paid.)
Very doubtful anyone would choose this extremely long and arduous route; the chances of survival over that distance and time would be negligible...
You're right, hopefully the victims would be smart enough to avoid it, and the exploiters want to make as much blood money as possible from the people they traffick and force into slavery. I've got human trafficking on the brain at the moment, can't stop thinking about all the poor souls sucked into lives they never asked for.