One possibility is that he may have known his actions would strengthen the labour party and that they might respond by doubling islamic immigration which would hasten the civil war.
Good point. It will be interesting to see how the Norwegians vote in their upcoming elections in Sept. Until Friday the conservatives were expected to gain seats.
I haven’t read the manifesto but for brief excerpts posted on FR, my quick take so far, the overriding message was the civil wars would not start for a good 50 years, there was going to be 2 more generations of Europeans before the system collapsed into civil war.
Bervik was trying to attack the future leaders of the next generation of his intra-national enemies, to deny them the leadership to maintain their control 20 or 50 years from now when this victims would inherit the reins of power inside the Labor Party and fellow travellers’ institutions in Norway.
Genghis Khan and Khan’s sons through GGGgrandsons did the same on the periphery of their empires... and in the inner circle of the empires during transition phases in the later generations.
Right up through the 1500’s the kind of attacks that Bervik committed were regular atrocities committed between rival Houses in Europe....
Look back far enough in history and Bervik’s actions are the historical norm, the last 200 years since the end of the French Revolution are the anomalies.