... posture was more benevolent when the Soviet counterpart enjoyed superiority in conventional military power. In contrast, NATO’s combined military budget today is approximately ten times greater than the Russian expenditures. The nefarious deceit of NATO and Norway since the early 1990s has been to pursue relentless eastward expansion and militarisation under the claim of not targeting Russia, while simultaneously functioning as an 'insurance guarantee' against a future conflict with Russia by ‘returning’ ...
... 1944-1947 crisis, when Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov demanded a separate revision of the Spitsbergen Treaty.
During the Cold War, Norway and Turkey enjoyed the prestigious status of a NATO "flank country." The situation brought Norway enormous investments from the NATO infrastructure programs, which were effectively used both for military and civilian purposes. Hence, Norway suffers damages from the North’s reduced importance for NATO after the collapse of the Soviet Union and would prefer to fuel controllable ...
... Iceland, Norway and Sweden, which will not only contribute to NATO-led operation, but also enable Nordic countries to maintain their armed forces at their current size and quality[vii]. Norway relies on NATO to secure its national interest in the Arctic Norway sees NATO as “the essential source of security and stability in an unpredictable world”[viii], and is thus actively promoting NATO’s role in the Arctic, mostly to counterweight Russia’s military rebuilding programs in the region. Norway ...
... discussions which are constantly stirred up and imposed on the public in no way means there is broad support for the idea of NATO membership in Swedish and Finnish society.
The recent election of the Social-Democratic government in Sweden took place to ... ... proclaimed a key partner in its practical implementation, and not winding it up, the Conservative Party that came to power in Norway after the last parliamentary elections has intensified the ritual bellicose anti-Russian rhetoric, for the benefit of its ...
... North-Atlantic Alliance’s plans. As the RIAC experts V.N. Konyshev and A.A. Sergunin point out, “it is Norway that was one of the main proponents of an Arctic strategy for NATO (January 2009)”
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. Furthermore, beyond its role in NATO, Norway spurs on the efforts of Scandinavian countries to create a special security zone, one that has already acquired the name “mini-NATO”. Norway’s ex-Foreign Minister Thorvald Stoltenberg in 2010 came out with the idea to create a ...
