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There's an International war going on and it's SURPRISE north of us-- not in the Middle East. This war is still over oil and natural gas--no surprise there--but at least this time there's no bullets, just lawyers and scientists with the UN having ultimate control over the decision. There's the story over on the left. If it's too small to read, just click on it to make it bigger. Magic! Apparently there's lots of petro type resources under the Bering Sea as well as the ocean floor beneath the polar region north of Alaska and Siberia. And that's a little sticky legally because under the 1982 Law of the Sea Convention , coastal states can claim the seabed beyond those economic zones, if they can show it connects to the continental shelf on which they are located. In this particular case, the coastal states in question are Canada, Denmark, Norway, Russia and the United States. They all have territory with the Arctic Circle so each controls an economic zone in t...