In my comments, just to clarify, I did not use “military capability” in that sentence.
I meant the ability to have air and maritime surveillance among three countries, because Denmark and Greenland guard the east flank, the United States guards the west flank, and we are in the middle.
So I do not mean this to be the militarization of the Arctic, because I agree with you that we do not have a Russian expression of interest or activity that would suggest that it's needed. But I do think that rather than trying to decide the Northwest Passage, which I think is not an important security question, there is an important need for joint surveillance among like-minded states.