"Norway’s chief of defense Eirik Kristoffersen has warned that #NATO faces a narrow window of just two to three years to reinforce its military readiness before #Russia rebuilds the capability to carry out conventional attacks....potentially allowing #Moscow to reconstitute its forces for warfare against the North Atlantic alliance sooner than some Western officials have estimated
#Norway’s chief of defense said the #NATO alliance has a window of two to three years to prepare before #Russia has rebuilt the ability to carry out a conventional attack.
“At one point someone said it’ll take 10 years but I think we’re back to less than 10 years because of the industrial base that is now running in Russia,” General Eirik #Kristoffersen, 55, said in an interview
The #Norwegian green party wants #Facebook ( #Meta ) temporarily banned in #Norway over their plan to use private photos to train their machine learning algorithms. 👏
"Together with the Prime Minister of Norway, Jonas Har Stere, we signed the Agreement on cooperation in the field of security and long-term support - already the 15th for our country.
This year, Norway will provide almost 1.2 billion euros in military aid to Ukraine.
Thank you to Norway for supporting Ukraine in our struggle for freedom and a just peace."
"Welcome to the State of Denial. You've arrived in an alternative reality where terrorists have become heroes valiantly battling oppressors, genocidal slogans are triumphant calls for freedom, and the natural response to a terror group that slaughtered 1,200 people and took another 250 hostages is to offer them a state."
Hamas and #Likud have a perverse incentive to keep the war in the #MiddleEast going, at least for now.
NEITHER wants it to be over. #Netanyahu has been signaling transparently that he wants #Biden to lose because #Trump would give #Bibi more latitude in “clearing” #Gaza upon his re-election.