here in the arctic and essentially revolves around three different things. on the one hand a very strong military and then dominating the northern sea route and also tapping and exploiting natural resources. and russia is warning the u.s. and its allies not to mess with that plan. >> translator: it has been absolutely clear for everyone for a long time that this is our territory. this is our land, and we are responsible for our arctic coast to be safe. everything that our country does there is absolutely legitimate. >> reporter: rhetoric that increasingly has the u.s. and russia on a collision course in the high north with moscow so far in a stronger position. the russians have been following for quite a while. they put in place a unified arctic command in 2014 and the russians say that this is a lot, that they built in the past couple of years more than 500 new military installations in the high north of russia, and