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Norway’s defense spending drops, increasing gap to NATO demands: report
TheLocal.no ^ | 25 January 2018 15:17 CET+01:00

Posted on 01/26/2018 8:45:00 AM PST by Olog-hai

The percentage of GDP spent by Norway on defense has decreased, despite NATO obligations for member countries to increase spending in the area to two percent by 2024.

The reduction in spending was reported by newspaper VG on Thursday.

Defense minister Frank Bakke-Jensen said in a written response to a parliamentary question that government spending on defense would reach 1.56 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) this year.

It will then fall further to 1.5 percent in 2020 and remain at that level until 2024, according to the report. […]

According to NATO’s own figures, Norway spent 1.59 percent of its GDP on defense in 2017. As such, 2018 will see a reduction in proportional spending according to the figure provided by the government. …

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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: eea; eumilitary; eurabia; eussr; fourthreich; nato; norway; rop

1 posted on 01/26/2018 8:45:00 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

How many European countries in NATO are fulfilling this promise? Britain, France, Greece, Estonia, I think Poland now. The rest should be booted out.


2 posted on 01/26/2018 8:51:12 AM PST by Trump20162020
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To: Olog-hai

Isn’t this the same country with a trillion dollar sovereign oil trust?


3 posted on 01/26/2018 8:53:10 AM PST by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: Olog-hai

Probably spending the money on the Muslim invaders.


4 posted on 01/26/2018 8:55:45 AM PST by Parley Baer
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To: Olog-hai
Why do they need a defense budget when they let the invading army in with open arms.

5 posted on 01/26/2018 9:03:31 AM PST by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: Parley Baer
> Probably spending the money on the Muslim invaders. <

Well, to be fair Norway has to budget a lot of money to fight global warming. Unavoidable incidents like the one below have increased the CO2 levels in the Norwegian atmosphere.


6 posted on 01/26/2018 9:05:47 AM PST by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: Olog-hai
Maybe they should cut down on the Muslim imports?

That's Norway's flag being burned.

7 posted on 01/26/2018 9:34:22 AM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: Leaning Right

Hahahaha, good picture and to the point.


8 posted on 01/26/2018 9:58:21 AM PST by Parley Baer
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To: Olog-hai

The US stationed troops in Norway a couple of years ago. Why would these countries pay to defend themselves when the US government is so insistent on doing it for them?


9 posted on 01/26/2018 10:19:37 AM PST by WatchungEagle
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To: mac_truck

Yes, they are the Saudis of the North.


10 posted on 01/26/2018 11:20:21 AM PST by miliantnutcase
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To: RightGeek

Norway has reversed course on immigrants. They deport the problem ones and the illegals. They do not have nearly the problems their Swedish neighbors have.


11 posted on 01/26/2018 11:24:25 AM PST by miliantnutcase
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To: Olog-hai

The norwegans are spending too much money on salted fish, reindeer meet and saunas. Then, too, they have allowed their country to be invaded by moozlum savages. That costs a pretty penny. What a joke of a country.


12 posted on 01/26/2018 11:38:02 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Olog-hai

The truth is, none of NATO faces even the slightest foreign threat, so they don’t spend the money on it.
NATO is an expansionist and aggressive entity. They are importing an islamic invasion that is raping, shooting, and exploding grenades in the streets.....and NATO is living in 1982, waiting for the USSR to pour in through the Fulda gap.

It would be like France still prepping for a weremacht nazi invasion in 1972.


13 posted on 01/26/2018 11:58:17 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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