If you control the Arctic region, you control two oceans and three continents, Tim enthuses, explaining with not only words but wide hand gestures: “You’ve got the Pacific, you’ve got the Atlantic, you’ve got the North American continent, and you’ve got the whole of Eurasia. So you’ve got the biggest populations in the world, the biggest countries in the world, the greatest technologies in the world, the best transportation networks in the world, the best infrastructure in the world. You get it?”