# Russian Submarines, the Arctic and Scotland's Nuclear Base

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2011835827404619783
- Source account: [@quaeriteX](https://x.com/quaeriteX)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 2:05
- Published: 2026-11-11
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/X1nw1YwfJ540/en/russian-submarines-the-arctic-and-scotland-s-nuclear-base

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/X1nw1YwfJ540/en/russian-submarines-the-arctic-and-scotland-s-nuclear-base) The quickest way for Russia to penetrate our naval defenses is teeming from the Arctic to the North Atlantic.

[0:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/X1nw1YwfJ540/en/russian-submarines-the-arctic-and-scotland-s-nuclear-base?t=7) This is our military presence in the Arctic.

[0:12](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/X1nw1YwfJ540/en/russian-submarines-the-arctic-and-scotland-s-nuclear-base?t=12) These were Russia's Arctic military positions in nineteen ninety-five.

[0:18](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/X1nw1YwfJ540/en/russian-submarines-the-arctic-and-scotland-s-nuclear-base?t=18) Today, infantry, naval, radar, search and rescue, air defense, the biggest buildup since the Soviets fell.

[0:32](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/X1nw1YwfJ540/en/russian-submarines-the-arctic-and-scotland-s-nuclear-base?t=32) This is where we lost Russia's most sophisticated submarines in the North Atlantic for three weeks.

[0:38](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/X1nw1YwfJ540/en/russian-submarines-the-arctic-and-scotland-s-nuclear-base?t=38) This is where we found their Losharik submarine, which we noticed only because it caught fire.

[0:43](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/X1nw1YwfJ540/en/russian-submarines-the-arctic-and-scotland-s-nuclear-base?t=43) We have no idea how many more there are, but we think they're around here, here, here, and here.

[0:51](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/X1nw1YwfJ540/en/russian-submarines-the-arctic-and-scotland-s-nuclear-base?t=51) This is Creagan. You know what Creagan is?

[0:56](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/X1nw1YwfJ540/en/russian-submarines-the-arctic-and-scotland-s-nuclear-base?t=56) A nuclear submarine base in Scotland. All of the UK's nuclear weaponry is housed at Creagan.

[1:02](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/X1nw1YwfJ540/en/russian-submarines-the-arctic-and-scotland-s-nuclear-base?t=62) It's what makes them one of the nine nuclear powers.

[1:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/X1nw1YwfJ540/en/russian-submarines-the-arctic-and-scotland-s-nuclear-base?t=65) Also, it's the only base in Europe where we can dock our nuclear subs.

[1:11](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/X1nw1YwfJ540/en/russian-submarines-the-arctic-and-scotland-s-nuclear-base?t=71) It's the last place we have any hope of detecting a Russian sub before it's in the vast Atlantic barreling toward New York.

[1:18](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/X1nw1YwfJ540/en/russian-submarines-the-arctic-and-scotland-s-nuclear-base?t=78) Creagan is target one in the European theater of war.

[1:23](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/X1nw1YwfJ540/en/russian-submarines-the-arctic-and-scotland-s-nuclear-base?t=83) The Scots hate nukes, and they hate English overreach, but they really hate having a bullseye on their heads.

[1:33](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/X1nw1YwfJ540/en/russian-submarines-the-arctic-and-scotland-s-nuclear-base?t=93) If Scotland had gone independent? They would have closed the base.

[1:39](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/X1nw1YwfJ540/en/russian-submarines-the-arctic-and-scotland-s-nuclear-base?t=99) In a second. When we took our forces out of Iceland, Russian sub activity skyrocketed, as did air incursions.

[1:47](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/X1nw1YwfJ540/en/russian-submarines-the-arctic-and-scotland-s-nuclear-base?t=107) When we pulled our combat brigades from Europe, anyone?

[1:52](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/X1nw1YwfJ540/en/russian-submarines-the-arctic-and-scotland-s-nuclear-base?t=112) Russia annexed Crimea. Is there a universe in which the United States could afford to lose the base in Scotland?

[2:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/X1nw1YwfJ540/en/russian-submarines-the-arctic-and-scotland-s-nuclear-base?t=120) No.