Of course we'd need a power source, fuel and food. Also a decent habitat that could house maybe several hundred guys comfortably so they won't drag up and demand to leave. I'm betting there's also coal on Antarctica.
A conglomerate of multinational corporations can lead the way, hire their own security force and tell UN to fuck off with those bullshit rules about not exploiting the wealth of that continent.
The best bet would be to act as meatshields/forward for the other nations that would soon land-rush Antarctica if they saw a viable colony on Antarctica. You still end serving the u.s. but the u.s. or other would want you to effectively appear neutral.
The same way north korea is nominally separate from china, or japan is distinct from the u.s. regime.
You get to be free for a generation or three, and live your life in a sane world, before globohomo take over there too.
Or you go hard, elon musk style, with a fuckton of money, and you roll the dice by telling everyone to fuck off, big-stick style. But no one on the right, except maybe two people, has that kind of money or clout. One of them would definitely surprise you if you knew the name.
The second option is the best.
I've worked for large corporations in construction and they do pay well and treat you right. Mostly it'd be white based guys such as work the oil fields up in North Dakota. If you saw a couple black guys up there they were all dressed up in hip clothes and driving a nice car. So what were they doing up there? Selling drugs and pimping to the oil workers like myself. I didn't do drugs, drink much beyond a couple beers after work and we stayed in a small hotel in a very small town but that didn't stop me from knowing what's going on.
You wouldn't have to worry about homos and blacks in a mining facility in Antarctica because no one is going to pay to have them shipped up there. It's just not going to happen in the same way you don't have riff raff out at sea on an oil rig.
Then too, blacks won't work in such a situation. They just don't have it in them to pack up some clothes, gear and persevere in tough conditions. We'd go out every day and work in 10 degrees below zero and sometimes driving snow. It was brutal but you dress up and get used to it.
Before us on a tank installation there was a crew of Mexicans out of Texas. When the ground froze and snow started coming down they packed up their shit and quit. So you wouldn't have to worry about them gold bricking on a job. They only work when conditions suit them. They'll deliberately drag their ass on a job to stretch it out. That shit doesn't fly in a high powered construction job. They get run off.
One company I worked for would sign a bunch of us up to go do a ship repair job up on the Great Lakes in winter when they can't ship cargo. For years it was all good and then the company started providing transport from Mississippi for anyone who could run a bead. Nothing but trouble cause these guys couldn't be bothered to think ahead, maintain their own vehicle and have money to travel on their own.
They had poor work ethics and would blow their first paycheck on crack and then lay out on Monday and Tuesday. To black guys were caught shoplifting from Walmart the first week we got on the job. Another couple of guys were caught exploiting a local girl who had diminished capacity to understand what they were up to as they started pimping her out to their buddies. Another black guy arrived on the job with a "girlfriend" he wanted to pimp out. Combination Welder/Pimp. Another couple of blacks got into a knife fight on board the ship we were working. Just all round horseshit once these clowns were on the job.
Oh, and the Vietnamese welders? They came up north with no insulated Carharts and heavy insulated boots. Poor bastards would huddle up around a can filled with scrap metal heating it with a rosebud torch. They were so afraid of the cold they would piss in the corner of the bilge tank till it reeked like a Tijuana toilet rather than leave the ship for the toilet onshore.
Christ in a fucking crackerbox, what a shitshow.
I would have been tempted to throw somebody overboard. Maybe even a few somebodies.
Thanks for that.
I would have done welding except I knew at the time, as I do now, they're just gonna replace you all with mexicans.
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