Norwegian Defense Minister: NATO expansion will lead to a review of defense policy

NATO expansion through Sweden and Finland will lead to a revision of Norway's defense policy. The focus remains on how exactly this will change the alliance itself and the military planning of the northern states that make up it.

According to the American magazine Breaking Defense, Norwegian Defense Minister Bjorn Arild Gram spoke about this.

The alliance is growing and we will see that we now need to rethink our defense planning. We can see where things will change, for example, infrastructure, communication lines. And, of course, we turn our attention to the Far North

Gram said.

He noted that in 2024, the biennial Cold Response exercises held in the Arctic zone, in which about 30 military personnel from 27 countries of Europe and North America participate, will be renamed Nordic Response. Finland and Sweden will become part of their operating area.

On the new geopolitical map, Finland will be presented as the front line of NATO, and Sweden will provide a greater depth of defense. In theory, this could free Norway from having to invest heavily in its forward forces, and instead allow it to reallocate funding to other defense areas.

And although Turkey and Hungary have not yet agreed to the admission of Helsinki and Stockholm to NATO, the leadership of the alliance considers this situation, saying "when", not "if".

Comments

[Ural_engineer]

It will lead to pindets sooner or later!

[Siberian 66]

NATO is pragmatically and purposefully moving closer to us. And he calculates options for how to suddenly destroy our military infrastructure at the first opportunity. They have a goal and they are moving towards it. What will we oppose? In light of the latest Khinzi counter-offensives, how is our army ranked in the world, I wonder?

[Ryaruav]

if we have this in the ground forces, then it’s just scary to imagine that exactly the same situation in the Strategic Missile Forces

[Nickelium]

NATO purposefully and pragmatically goes to its end, because it cannot expand indefinitely. In fact, now it is an inflated soap bubble. Well, the main Achilles' heel of Nata - everything rests on the YuESE. The hegemon will collapse and the domino effect will befall Natu. But what are the consequences of its collapse I see? Norway and Sweden are losing their vast northern parts. Finland shrinks to a piece of Pribotnia. Alands naturally float away. the Baltics? Well, there is no need to be Captain Obvious. Poland is deprived of the sea, the West and the East, and shrinks down to the area around Lodz. Sudetenia separates from the Czech Republic. Romania loses the sea and its part of Moldova. Germany is actively pressing on the western Polish regions and creating a sovereign Sudetenland. France loses Bretonnia and Alsace with Normandy. In Spain, the overthrow of the monarchy and the formation of independent Catalonia, Balearic, Canary, Euskadi, Galicia. The Azores secede from Portugal and declare independence. Belgium crashes into three parts - Wallonia (French), Flanders (Flama) and Eupen (Germans). The Netherlands is divided into 2 parts - Maastricht (south) and Gronnigen (north). Italy is experiencing a parade of sovereignties: Dolomite (Germans), Venice, Genoa, Piedmont, Sardines and Sicily. Switzerland, as a result of mutually beneficial agreements, gets access to the sea, and Austria becomes the main financial center of Europe, taking it away from Switzerland.
/that is what awaits the country of Nata after its collapse.

[Nyrobsky]

Quote: Sibiryak 66

NATO is pragmatically and purposefully moving closer to us. And he calculates options for how to suddenly destroy our military infrastructure at the first opportunity. They have a goal and they are moving towards it. What will we oppose?

Is it perhaps a "global and comprehensive cage" for the entire NATO and its puppeteers who hope to sit out behind a puddle, tk. nothing else is given. So no options. If we do not do this, we will be nullified.

[S. Sergei]

... how is our army quoted in the world, I wonder?

When they spent less than 4 months with Finland, they were evaluated as a "colossus with feet of clay" and a year later it began. The analogy is direct: Finland - Ukraine, Hitler - NATO. They also went to Finland, like for a walk, the same mess. Only now it’s even worse - in the Second World War, the p and n dos and the British were for us. It remains only to threaten with a nuclear club and hope that, according to tradition, we harness for a long time, but ...

[SAG]

Sergey, study in depth the prehistory of the Second World War, who will fight against whom was determined when the fighting was already going on in full ...
Why did Stalin drive 4 divisions into Iran when there were fierce battles for Kyiv and Kharkov. For what purpose Hess flew to England. What did Rommel do in Africa at all ... Why did Stalin concentrate all fighter aircraft on the border, and stop the production of long-range bombers ... Very exciting
One thing I can say for sure: They were not "for us"))

[Alex 2019]

There are military commissars for such clarifications, it’s not a noble thing to do this, when in your backyard the mediocre generals of the city surrender, the soldiers are abandoned and the equipment is left to the enemy.

[former soldier]

NATO expansion will lead to a revision of defense policy

Something since the creation of NATO, I do not remember a single case when NATO would have to defend itself. Damn hypocrites.

[notingem]

What will it lead to? Norwegians closer to the grave

[iouris]

Theoretically, Sweden cannot join NATO because of its own legislation. for this, the decision must be confirmed by the two governments. Finland enters only together with Sweden. But practically they are already in NATO and NATO has set its sights on the Russian North. Explosions of gas pipelines in the economic zone of Sweden consolidate the status of Sweden as a vassal of the United States and Britain and the use of the resources of these countries in the war.

[Hitriy Zhuk]

If it is impossible with territorial disputes there, can they roll out territorial claims against each country that wishes to join there?

[Hitriy Zhuk]

They have an interesting "defense policy" - they only do what they attack (with a screech of "this is another").