{"id":30463,"date":"2015-02-28T10:18:11","date_gmt":"2015-02-28T15:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=30463"},"modified":"2018-01-15T17:35:29","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T22:35:29","slug":"how-worried-are-russias-neighbours-norway-just-re-opened-northern-bases-that-have-been-shut-down-since-the-cold-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/02\/28\/how-worried-are-russias-neighbours-norway-just-re-opened-northern-bases-that-have-been-shut-down-since-the-cold-war\/","title":{"rendered":"How worried are Russia\u2019s neighbours? Norway reacts to re-opened northern bases that have been shut down since the Cold War"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the Guardian<\/em>, Julian Borger<\/a> reports on restructuring in Norway’s defence establishment in reaction to Russian expansionism:<\/p>\n

Norway\u2019s defence minister has said her country\u2019s armed forces will be restructured so they can respond faster to what she called increased Russian aggression.<\/p>\n

Ine Eriksen Soreide said that Russia had recently re-opened military bases in its far north that had been shut down after the cold war, and that there had also been an increase in flights by Russian warplanes close to Norwegian airspace.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have seen in the first couple of months of this year a certain increase compared to the same period last year and … an increased complexity. We see they fly longer, they fly with more different kinds of airplanes and their patterns are different than they used to be,\u201d Soreide told the Guardian<\/em> during a visit to London.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey have not breached our territory and that is different from what is happening in the Baltic Sea area. They are breaching territory there all the time and in the Baltic area they have also seen three times as many flights as normal or usual,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

Soreide said Norway was stepping up military cooperation with the Baltic states — Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania — as a means of reassuring them that they were fully covered by Nato\u2019s collective security umbrella. Furthermore, Norway was \u201cabsolutely\u201d ready to expand training of Ukrainian soldiers, she said, predicting that more Nato states would follow the British example of dispatching trainers and non-lethal equipment to support Ukraine.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn the political level I think it is important to define what we are seeing, that this is aggression — whether you see it as cyber threats or information campaign and conventional warfare, it is aggression what they are doing in Ukraine. And I think it\u2019s important to say this, and that we do not accept this towards Nato countries,\u201d the defence minister said. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Update<\/strong>: Re-worded the headline to reflect the fact that it was Russian<\/em> bases being re-opened, not Norwegian facilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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