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“mission is suicidal”: James Brooke, “Russia Moves into Arctic Oil Frontier with a Lax Safety Culture?” VOA (Voice of America), December 22, 2011.

“inter-island”: Ibid.

“involved the kind”: Ibid.

“Some men”: Ibid.

“It is inevitable”: Fiona Harvey and Shaun Walker, “Arctic Oil Spill Is Certain If Drilling Goes Ahead, Says Top Scientist,” Guardian, November 19, 2003.

“a completely different”: Ibid.

“We are planning”: Christoph Seidler, “Spring Cleaning in the Arctic: Putin’s Environmental Action Plan for the Far North,” Der Speigel Online, September 24, 2010.

“floating”: Ken Stier, “In Russia, a push for Floating Power Plants,” Time, Nov. 12, 2010.

“fairly proven hardware”: Ken Stier, “In Russia a Push for Floating Nuclear Power Plants,” Time, November 12, 2010.

“If a working”: Alissa de Carbonnel, “Can Nuclear Power Plants Float?” Reuters, April 18, 2011.

“fender bender”: Seidler and Traufetter, “Boon to Global Shipping.”

“warming Arctic”: “Tequila Sunset,” Economist, February 9, 2013.

“If there is”: Matthew Farish, The Contours of America’s Cold War (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010), p. 174.

“We have no intention”: Ivan Nechepurenko, “Oil Price Drop Puts Russia’s Arctic Drive in Question,” Moscow Times, January 15, 2015.

“colossal wealth”: Eva Stolberg review of John McCannon, Red Arctic: Polar Exploration and the Myth of the North in the Soviet Union 1932–1939, H-Russia networks, h-net.org.

“In a competition”: Tony Halpin, “Russia Warns of War Within a Decade over Arctic Oil and Gas Riches,” Timesonline, Times, May 14, 2009.

“If Vienna was”: James Bamford, “Frozen Assets,” Foreign Policy, May/June 2015, p. 47.

“We’re not even”: Douglas Ernst, “U.S. Cedes Arctic to Russia,” Washington Times, July 8, 2015.

“battle for resources”: “Battle for Arctic Key for Russia’s Sovereignty—Rogozin,” RIA/NOVOSTI, December 4, 2012.

CHAPTER 9: MANIFESTING DESTINY: ASIA

“We are similar”: Evan Osnos, “Born Red,” New Yorker, April 16, 2015.

“In the 21st”: “Putin: Russia’s development vector is directed eastward in the 21st century,” Interfax, December 12, 2012. Translation changed slightly.

“short, victorious”: see entry on Vyacheslav Plehve in Prominent Russians in Russiapedia.

“brave little”: Denis Warner and Peggy Warner, The Tide at Sunrise: History of the Russo-Japanese War, 1904–1905 (New York: Routledge, 2002), p. 530.

“unequal treaties”: “The Opening to China Part II,” Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State, history@state.gov.

“The Politburo was terrified”: Arkady Shevchenko, Breaking with Moscow (New York: Knopf, 1985), pp. 164–65.

“We do not have”: Russian Reform Monitor No. 1779, May 17, 2012.

“small groups”: Alex Rodriguez, “Chinese Reap Opportunity, Rancor in Russia’s Far East,” Chicago Tribune, September 27, 2006.

“I don’t want”: www.president.kremlin.ru/events.

“Over the long term”: Sujata Rao and Michelle Chen, “Russian Firms Turn to Asia for Finance as Western Firms Demur,” Reuters, April 30, 2014.

“natural resources appendage”: Rens Lee, “The Far East Between Russia, China, and America,” FPRI (Foreign Policy Research Institute), July 2012.

“unforgiveable outrage”: J. Berkshire Miller, “Getting Serious: An End to the Russia-Japan Dispute?” Diplomat, April 19, 2013.

“Russia’s geo-strategic eyes”: David Tweed, “Why Putin Fears China,” Bloomberg Business, February 15, 2015.

“China’s most prominent”: Yu Sun, “March West: China’s Response to the U.S. Rebalancing,” Brookings Upfront, January 31, 2013.

“We say China”: Mao Zedong, Speech of April 25, 1956, Selected Works, vol., 5 (Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1977).

“I can almost hear”: Jane Perlez, “China Looks West as It Bolsters Regional Ties,” New York Times, September 7, 2013.

“bold and decisive”: Jeremy Page, “China Turns to New Hero: Putin the Great,” Wall Street Journal, October 2, 2014.