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Home / Western Hemisphere / Trump awards final contracts under U.S.-Finnish icebreaker partnership to Canada-linked defense company
Western Hemisphere, Grand strategy, Russia

February 11, 2026

Trump awards final contracts under U.S.-Finnish icebreaker partnership to Canada-linked defense company

“We are not going to have an icebreaker fleet anywhere on par with Russia,” Lyle Goldstein, the director of Defense Priorities’ Asia program and a former professor at U.S. Naval War College, previously told the Washington Examiner. “No, not ‘anytime soon.’ I mean that I don’t think it’ll ever happen.”

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