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Ooh, I get to choose the location?
Fairly close to the North Pole. Our people are adapted to it, assuming the island has always been there somehow. Nobody else is, making the logistics of trying to invade an absolute nightmare for anyone on Earth.
Now we just have to feed ourselves somehow in the event of a naval blockade, so a lot of investment into ballistic missiles and submarines to make a blockade as difficult as possible and hopefully keep our trade open during the summertime. I assume we're fully reliant on imports that can only come in during that seasonal window. Fishing alone probably can't sustain a population that large, and nothing is going to grow up there.
Assuming an invasion has to occur in 10 years and cannot be delayed, whoever tries is kinda fucked though.
If North Pole is cheating, then in the middle of the Pacific with the same plan. Probably can't resist something like the US though in that case.
Climate change make you a tasty target. You'll be less affected than equatorial shores int terms of sea level rise and your climate is warming. Why do you think Greenland is being targeted by the US right now? Because the US military is planning for global warming across the globe.
Sea levels rise the same everywhere. And not in 10 yrs it won't.
They don't. Rise at the equator is slightly more due to the same reason the Earth bulges at the equator: centripetal force. The already-elevated sea level plays into the gravitational baseline at sea level, so gravity is 0. 5% weaker there than at the poles. The tides are also typically more aggressive at the equator and will only get worse, since it's in the plane of the moon's orbit.
The rules say you're going to be attacked. Surely, the victor will hold the land for decades. Why not try to take it now first before the rest of the planet is desperate?
Okay, fair enough.
I fail to see the distinction. By OPs prompt, we're getting attacked no matter what once his plot armor expires.