US shifts from Germany have led to talk of a European reset. While Poland had been hoping for more attention, the US attention seems to be further to the northwest, around Norway, where activity looks to be centering on the Arctic.
Drills, ship visits, and increased presence in and around Norway are underscoring that this is the first substantial US interest in Norway since the Cold War. Russia is recently showing more interest in the Arctic, and the US sees Norway as a foothold to do the same.
As temperatures warm, the Arctic is opening up, with easier access to natural resources, and perhaps just as importantly, new trade routes for shipping. Several nations are scrambling to get some control over all of this, which has seen Russia again active after years ignoring the Arctic, and the US following them.
Russia has an advantage, with a huge Arctic presence geographically, and a military with some experience operating there. The US sees this as a challenge to meet, and Norway’s proximity to Russia makes it a convenient base of operations.
” Russia is recently showing more interest in the Arctic ”
Russia extends into the Arctic, and has had towns and villages there for ever. It is the US interest that is recent and their intentions aren’t peaceful.
The only way the US thinks it can catch up in the Arctic and Russia`s northern sea route, is to be a spoiler, create tensions between the arctic countries, sabotage the decades of peaceful meetings between the arctic countries, blackmail US arctic allies to follow US aggressive approach towards Russia and its northern sea route.
Norway seems to be willing to play the fool, their fool master at NAT0, sec. general Stoltenberg is leading the way.
Get ready for “Ice Force”……
hope so. this planet belongs to the U.S.
Aww, first 2 disqus posts. Troll army really scraping the bottom of the barrel
This is a good one. MIC is looking for new ways to spend money. Just starting to build icebreakers.
Russia has recently shown interest in Arctic? Would the author kindly look at the map — Large chunk of Arctic Ocean and its seas are part of Russia’s territory, and have forever been part of Russia’s shipping system. Russia has a fleet of icebreakers to deal with the harsh environment.
US interest is really limited to wrecking Nordic countries’ natural coexistence that goes back millennia. Norway in particular. First Russian ruler that united Russia from Baltic to Black Sea comes from the Norse Russian culture that was tightly integrated into the region. He spent time in Norway with his relative, Norway ruler in 10th century, before raising army to get back to power, and unite Russian territory. Viking migrations show the depth of cultural connections well before Russian state unification — as until today, in Scotland there is a belief of their origin in once wide spread people, Skits that lived in the land with Russ and other clans in Kiev region, before it became Russian capital.
And while the myth of this ancestry is denied, the facts of sea migrations are fully proven. And there are too many coincidences — such as St.Andrew’s cross, flag of Scotland, flag of Russian navy, a typical Orthodox Christian cross depicting both Christ and St.Andrew crosses. Of course, St.Andrew preached in the region of Kiev, and the Christian faith and symbols traveled along Black Sea — Baltic route, across Nordic world to the coasts of North Sea, And to the Pilgrim Way along North Sea coast of Fife, to the town called St. Andrews, where the myth is still present in spite of an improbable story of Vatican connection.
This unhealthy split between East and West has done a great deal of damage already, and continues to shatter ancient ties that bind Norse Land with Scotland and Russ Land on either end.
didn’t ask for a history lesson
And I do not need anyone’s permission.
It is highly unpleasant to globalist- minded people to accept the real history of true cultural, religious and linguistic ties — they prefer their own. The history in which Russia is excluded from the west, and history divided into neat compartments of ignorance.
We must share more — ignorance is not a virtue.
They will turn that beautiful country into just another toxic gas station for the military industrial complex, just like Chagos, Jeju, and Okinawa.