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Norway: Relations with Russia will never again be the same
CNN ^ | Updated 2:06 PM ET, Wed February 25, 2015 | Mick Krever, CNN

Posted on 02/25/2015 4:47:51 PM PST by WhiskeyX

London (CNN)—Western relations with Russia will never again be the same after the war in Ukraine, Norwegian Defense Minister Ine Eriksen Søreide told CNN's Christiane Amanpour on Wednesday.

"We are faced with a different Russia. I want to warn against the fact that some people see this as something that is going to pass. The situation has changed. And it has changed profoundly."

There is "no going back to some sort of normality or some sort of back to normal business. Because that normality does not exist."

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: crimea; donetsk; europeanunion; nato; norway; putinsbuttboys; russia; ukraine; vladtheimploder
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1 posted on 02/25/2015 4:47:51 PM PST by WhiskeyX
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How’s the Muzzie relations going? Issuing the Pieces Prize to Bammy?


2 posted on 02/25/2015 4:49:26 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Paladin2

The war for liberty is a multi-front war


3 posted on 02/25/2015 4:51:28 PM PST by GeronL
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To: GeronL

Norway seems to be leading from behind too.


4 posted on 02/25/2015 4:52:39 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: WhiskeyX

Always wondered why Norway bucked the trend and went with NATO.

Sweden and Finland always seemed perfectly fine with neutrality.


5 posted on 02/25/2015 4:54:28 PM PST by Shadow44
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Putin’s wars and obvious intentions, are leading Sweden and Finland to consider joining NATO.


6 posted on 02/25/2015 5:02:40 PM PST by ansel12 (Palin--Mr President, the only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke.)
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To: GeronL

Yes...the ignorant populace does not know we are fighting a multi front war...some fronts against certain “Americans”


7 posted on 02/25/2015 5:04:33 PM PST by goodnesswins (I think we've reached PEAK TYRANNY now.....)
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To: Paladin2

What do you want Norway to do?

Do you want NATO to get tougher with Russia?


8 posted on 02/25/2015 5:05:15 PM PST by ansel12 (Palin--Mr President, the only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke.)
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To: WhiskeyX

Never is a long, long time. Norwegians and Russians share a love for hard booze and caviar and a hatred for Jews, so I’m sure they’ll reconcile someday.


9 posted on 02/25/2015 5:05:49 PM PST by Always A Marine
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To: WhiskeyX; F15Eagle
Ezekiel 38 and 39 seems to be taking shape. Radical Islam and a new resurgent Russia, both bent on global war.
10 posted on 02/25/2015 5:06:14 PM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: Shadow44

Sweden and Finland weren’t occupied during the war.


11 posted on 02/25/2015 5:07:34 PM PST by Bubba Ho-Tep
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Only Four days to go until March!

FReepers, Let's GIT_R_DONE!

12 posted on 02/25/2015 5:27:21 PM PST by RedMDer (Keep Free Republic Alive with YOUR Donations!)
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep
Finland declared it's independence from Russia in 1918. The Russians got worked up over that and in the winter of 1939/40 invaded Finland and did pretty badly. The Finns ran circles around the Russkies until the Russian Bear did what it does best-- massive firepower and that ended the war. The Finns under Mannerheim sided with the Nazis during the war against the Russkies. There's no love loss between the two, that's for sure. This whole thing is very slowly starting to spiral out of control. I can't believe Putin can be this reckless and stupid.
13 posted on 02/25/2015 5:28:33 PM PST by jmacusa (Liberalism defined: When mom and dad go away for the weekend and the kids are in charge.)
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To: ansel12

I think Norway has a common border with Russia. I’d suggest that they need a larger military.


14 posted on 02/25/2015 5:40:49 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Paladin2
Norway seems to be leading from behind too.

What does that mean? Is Norway supposed to lead NATO?

15 posted on 02/25/2015 5:44:16 PM PST by ansel12 (Palin--Mr President, the only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke.)
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To: jmacusa
I can't believe Putin can be this reckless and stupid.

He's neither. He looks at Russia as his own little prepper hobby. If he can burn down the world and survive it with his military tech intact, he can then take over the world - or at least his hemisphere of it - when it's a smoking ruin.

16 posted on 02/25/2015 6:27:28 PM PST by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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“Always wondered why Norway bucked the trend and went with NATO.”

“Sweden and Finland always seemed perfectly fine with neutrality.”

Norway has abandoned neutrality as a defensive measure given their own disastrous experience and that of the other European nations in WWII. I know an elderly couple who despise the Germans to this day, after her elderly grandparents were dragged out of their log house in Norway during WWII by German soldiers and murdered them in the snow. They also strongly disliked the Swedes for allowing the German soldiers to transit through Sweden to get to Norway. Many Norwegians today would rather die fighting than tolerate another hostile occupation by German or Russian invaders.

Some of the Swedes also aren’t happy with the way in which their government was backed into a corner and coerced into allowing the German forces to use Swedish territory for the German war on Norway. As strongly as the Swedes believe in maintaining their neutrality, they are being very sorely tempted into abandoning their traditional neutrality in the face of this mounting threat of aggression from Putin’s Russia.


17 posted on 02/25/2015 6:29:31 PM PST by WhiskeyX
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Russians launch counterfeit TV station in Donetsk

http://uatoday.tv/news/blaze-putin-is-operating-a-counterfeit-propoganda-tv-station-in-ukraine-411643.html


18 posted on 02/25/2015 6:31:58 PM PST by GeronL
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Many Norwegians today would rather die fighting than tolerate another hostile occupation ...

O yeah? Then how come they're letting hundreds of thousands of Muslims take over their country? How come they do nothing when the aforementioned Muslims rape hundreds of their women and teenage girls? How come their cops do nothing when the Muslims push them out of neighborhoods? How come their judiciary is integrating Sharia into their codes?

Don't confuse our solid, stolid, reliable commonsense Norwegian American Lutherans with the Far Left Socialist open borders ani they evidently left behind to ruin their country.

Yo, Norway. Wake TF up!

19 posted on 02/25/2015 6:48:50 PM PST by Kenny Bunk (Direct your anger at the GOP, not Obama.)
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To: Talisker

He’s insane if thinks he can get away with this. Does he really think he can survive a nuclear exchange with us? All it would take is one and the whole world goes up in flames. China, the Norks and Pakistan aren’t going to sit by and wait to be immolated and neither are the guys standing behind Putin. There’s a Russian tradition of it’s leaders getting ‘’sick’’. Even Stalin, the “Man Of Steel’’ wasn’t immune to the “Kremlin Flu’’, or so it has been alleged. Putin is playing with fire and he’s the one who’ll end up getting burned.


20 posted on 02/25/2015 6:53:02 PM PST by jmacusa (Liberalism defined: When mom and dad go away for the weekend and the kids are in charge.)
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