Posted on 01/18/2017 12:19:20 PM PST by Lorianne
Some 300 U.S. Marines landed in Norway on Monday for a six-month deployment, the first time since World War Two that foreign troops have been allowed to be stationed there, in a deployment which has irked Norway's Arctic neighbor Russia.
Officials played down any link between the operation and NATO concerns over Russia, but the deployment coincides with the U.S. sending several thousand troops to Poland to beef up its Eastern European allies worried about Moscow's assertiveness.
Marines from Camp Lejeune in North Carolina landed a little after 10 am CET (0900 GMT) at a snow-covered Vaernes airport near Trondheim, Norway's third-largest city, where temperatures were reaching -2 degrees Celsius (28 degrees Fahrenheit).
U.S. troops are to stay in Norway for a year, with the current batch of Marines being replaced after their six-month tour is complete.
A spokesman for the Norwegian Home Guards, who will host the Marines at the Vaernes military base, about 1,500 km (900 miles) from the Russian border, said the U.S. troops will learn about winter warfare.
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Yes, because a Russian invasion of Norway is imminent. I’m surprised it hasn’t already started. We are run by lunatics. Lunatics with one goal, constant war so they can enrich their defense contractors, and have more reasons to regiment American society.
It’s all crap.
The Sons of Ragnar Lothbrook are working in offices while muslim invaders mooch off their labor and rape their women ....
Like in 1940?
Norway is hosting our troops for training in an Arctic environment with their military which is far more experienced than our military is with extreme cold weather conditions. <— Per Mr. Megan, the retired Marine.
What if Choom boy held a provocation and nobody cared?
Because their Christian culture is long gone. They, along with Brussels, are where all the sodomites and child sex traffickers congregate and travel to Thailand, etc, for the little boys. They are too busy having parties and don’t care about the women and children since their protective natures are warped and they are predators of the weak and innocent.
Immoral cultures collapse.. Vice creates slaves only (Socrates).
I thought it said Normandy...
Today, the only thing they need protection from are Islamic hordes. We are not there to remove those hordes, so bring them home.
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