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2018-06-15 Europe

Russia vows consequences after Norway invites more U.S. Marines

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Posted by DarthVader 2018-06-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Huh.
Wonder why they don't train their own Marines?

Posted by Skidmark 2018-06-15 04:18|| 2018-06-15 04:18|| Front Page Top

#2 Talking to a Norwegian exchange student about twenty years ago. He said Norwegians don't take the military seriously--because, he said smugly, "We know who will come to take care of things."
I didn't strike him.

Posted by Richard Aubrey 2018-06-15 05:07|| 2018-06-15 05:07|| Front Page Top

#3 Looks like the TV series "Okkupert" (Occupied) resonated more with Norway than expected...

(Plot is that Norway has found massive thorium deposits, and after a tidal wave blamed on "global warming" has decided to stop producing petrochemicals and focus on thorium-based reactors. Their plan to share the technology ticks off Russia, who see their natural gas stranglehold on Europe slipping. So Russia cooks up a pretense to invade Norway...)

Posted by Rob Crawford 2018-06-15 06:47|| 2018-06-15 06:47|| Front Page Top

#4 Best follow the Swiss model guys.

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-06-15 07:10|| 2018-06-15 07:10|| Front Page Top

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