NATO

Philosopher Jon Hellesnes comments on Norway's contribution to NATO.

The upgrading of the Nordic countries as a military player to be expected is in full swing – thus driving the tension between the countries.

Central Norway is preparing to welcome 40 000 soldiers and the comprehensive NATO exercise Trident Juncture, which starts in October. What if we could get an equally gigantic peace exercise?

The Norway campaign out of NATO takes the strongest distance from the intervention made by five member states of the Warsaw Pact in Czechoslovakia, and supports the demand for the withdrawal of all foreign forces from Czechoslovak soil. The occupation violates the principle of national independence and the right of self-determination.

A few days after the Russian assault on Czechoslovakia, Norway's name was featured in the free Praha Radio. The broadcaster presented an interview with the Norwegian press man and foreign editor in the weekly newspaper Dag and Tid, Olav Rytter, who was in Prague. 

We have quite unequivocally expressed our opinion on Soviet politics and the invasion of Czechoslovakia. It may be time to return home to highlight the invasion's consequences for Norwegian politics.

Ingeborg Breines makes a strong settlement with the "security strategies" of the authorities, NATO and the military industry. A secure future is not built with weapons, but with a peace culture based on dialogue and solidarity, she writes.

The campaign Norway out of NATO aims at Norway's foreign policy to secure the country's independence, contribute to relaxation, disarmament and peace and to bridge the gap between rich and poor people. The government's announcements of continued membership in NATO beyond 1969 and new defense plan for the years 1969-73 confirm that the campaign's high goals are incompatible with continued membership in NATO.

The newly elected leader of Rød Ungdom, Tobias Drevland Lund (21), tells Ny Tid that Norway should be militarily independent of the great powers the USA and Russia. Instead, he sees a Nordic defense alliance as a third way in foreign policy.

"In Greece, everything is pretty much calm on the one-year anniversary of the military coup" (NRK).

The Russia-Georgia war in 2008 was to show that the NATO expansion eastward limit had been reached. With the Ukraine crisis of 2013 – 15, it was exceeded. 

The Vatican no longer provides any moral acceptance for a military nuclear deterrence doctrine.

The political denial campaign is drawing attention to NATO's goals and strategy. We do not have soldiers with the protection of the "security of the realm" as the only task, but NATO soldiers who are obedient servants to the greatest and most offensive military force in history. The question is therefore no longer what values ​​one fights for, but what values ​​one fights for when one becomes available to the US Army, Northern Norway Division.

During the Cold War, Stay Behind armies were to be mobilized in Western Europe by a possible Soviet occupation. British and Americans used some of these for other purposes.

After more and more terrorist attacks in Europe, NATO and the West believe that more use of force is the way to go. This suggests little understanding of how organizations such as IS work.

More than 12 000 recently protested against NATO in Brussels.