UK and Norway begin talks on new defence agreement

[Wicked Blue]

Source: The Evening Standard

The UK and Norway have started negotiations on a new defence pact aimed at combatting the threat from Russia in the Arctic.

Defence Secretary John Healey and his counterpart, Tore Sandvik, kickstarted the talks as they met at Norwegian Joint Headquarters, a fortress tunnelled deep into the side of a mountain.

Moves towards the major defence agreement come as European countries continue to reel from the sharp shift in US foreign policy towards Ukraine.

President Donald Trump has urged European nations to spend more on their own money on defence, and has locked Nato partners out of initial peace talks over the future of Ukraine with Russia.

Read more: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/john-healey-norway-donald-trump-european-russia-b1212319.html

[PortTack]

1. Hello pootie and orange buffoon, taking an axe to Ukraine just because you want their mineral rights isn't going

To happen. Anymore than orange man invading Greenland, or Canada…it only makes him look like the fool he is!

[Wicked Blue]

2. It's more than mineral rights. Putin wants to restore the Russian Empire

by annexing Ukraine, the 3 Baltic nations, Kazakhstan, Georgia, etc.

He wants the Baltics partly because they are a thorn in his side, but also because they have seaports that don't ice up in winter.