Is it that there are truly no substantial issues left to discuss regarding the Arctic? Are we now scraping the bottom of the barrel with these peripheral topics?🏴
No, it's a small island nation in the foggy North Atlantic and, cornered, has the capacity (and mentality) to annihilate Russia and America. I suspect an individual like you would consider that 'a great power'.
The thing mr. Healey is : nobody is interested in dying in a war. You folks in power should do everything to not let anyone be killing anyone else. Will you sell conscription as a great British adventure ? Like before IWW? I don’t think people are so bored in the 21’st century
Britain must focus on defending the UK and the rest of Europe rather than Arctic resources Norway stakes claim to but can't defend itself. The idea valuable military resources get (ab)used to defend the heroin dealer-like economic ideology of Norway is untenable during peacetime let alone wartime.
Norway also provides clean electric energy to the UK through the North Sea Link cable. It is supposed to balance UK wind energy, and provide power to the UK when wind is not blowing on UK wind mills, and to transfer power to Norway when the UK has excess wind energy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sea_Link?wprov=sfti1
How generous! Most Norwegians want to stop supplying electricity to Britain and others in Europe. Increasing demand for Norway's electricity has pushed up prices for Norwegians. The reality is that Norway doesn't have the capacity to supply other nations. Note too hydro is environmentally harmful.
Norway provides a significant proportion of the UK’s natural gas consumption through the Langeled pipeline. I guess that’s what you refer to as "heroin". Other people would maybe call it "heating" and "not freezing in winter". Seems important. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langeled_pipeline?wprov=sfti1#
We're hoping to phase out fossil fuels within years due to costs. Petrostate Norway should have stopped exporting fossil fuels years ago due to the environmental harm caused. This would help Britain and other nations make better choices re 'heating'. But heroin dealer-like ethics get in the way.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sea_Link?wprov=sfti1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langeled_pipeline?wprov=sfti1#