” Doesn’t make sense. We have 500 US Marines on the Norwegian Russia that would stop them. “
OK, point taken (perhaps you were being facetious), but maybe that’s why they are there, a tripwire as it were. I would hope that the Norse would put up a hell of a fight regardless.
I visited Norway in 1979. I mentioned to a relative if they were worried about the Russians; sharing a border and all.
“The Russians!!?? They never have bothered us. It is the Germans that we are worried about.” Said sincerely.
I had another relative that as a 20-something was in the Norwegian Resistance. He hid from the Nazi’s the whole time, and never told anyone what he had done. “It will go to the grave with me. There are still Nazi’s, and I don’t want any harm to come to my children.”