“He knows and everybody knows that having NATO on your border is the best guarantee you will never be invaded from that side.”
Given that NATO has pretty much dumped all of its ground weapons into Ukraine, you’re probably right - NATO’s now a paper tiger with nukes.
Ok. Not falling for this swindle and if you did you are stupid.
The globohomos were not planning on breaking up Russia by invading through Norway. The well disclosed plan that Nuland and co were engaged in was to use Ukraine to isolate Russia, cut it off, break it up and take over the assets. You can’t isolate Russia through Norway.
> Norwegian chief of defense claims Putin ‘knows very well’ NATO is not a threat to Russia <
I have posted on FR many times that I consider Putin to be a war criminal. I stand by that opinion.
I have also posted that NATO is no threat to Russia, as NATO is purely a defensive organization. Another Freeper then pointed out that NATO went on the offensive in Libya and in Serbia. I was wrong.
So Putin does have reason to see NATO as a threat.
Every single member of NATO has invaded Russia at one time or another. Including Greece. Including Italy. Including the United States.
the front needs them more than the Norwegian border does...
Earlier in the war, Russia sent many of its trainers to fight in Ukraine. This resulted in wrecking Russia's training command without producing decisive results. After that, due to a lack of trainers and material, many new Russian troops have been sent to fight without training or adequate uniforms, gear, or weapons.
In a modern NATO country, those kinds of costly and brutal expedients would generate much political grief and would not be undertaken unless the circumstances were dire. In Russia though, brutal and costly has a low threshold and there is a high tolerance by the population for casualties, economic privation, and military defeat.