I can understand why some Norwegians are miffed. A large chunk of Norway's defense plans was contingent on not posing a threat to the Soviet Union. A big part of this was not allowing permanent (or permanent rotations as the new fashion dictates) of NATO troops.
NATO troops rotated through Norway for arctic training but these were really short stays.
All these 330 Marines do it aggravate the Russians. It's mindless tit-for-tat idiocy that's seeing us escalate the tension pre-1914 style.
Bare in mind that the Norwegian strategy was sound since 1949 and that neither Finland nor Sweden had to be members of NATO in the whole period 1945-1991 and they were never invaded!
In fact in the Cold War Sweden and Finland's neutrality and Norway's lack of offensive capability basically helped reinforce that security buffer that's been the driving force of all Russian/Soviet foreign policy for several centuries!
I'm amazed supposedly smart Americans and Europeans don't understand this major fact. Just because we've all jumped aboard the 21st century open borders/globalisation train doesn't mean the Russians (or the Chinese or anyone else really) have.
I suspect if cornered, the Bear will literally go nuclear.
I also suspect if the Bear was given it's safety blanket, it would behave far better in global politics. Remember the Ruskis only really intervene when their buffer zone is threatened. They don't care much about else and were happy to cooperate on terrorism and assist NATO in Afghanistan with logistics access.
But the Europeans and Americans keep prodding it in Ukraine, IN Georgia and in Poland (the AMD system supposedly in Poland to stop missiles from Iran) as well as taking advantage of Russian goodwill in Libya (that no fly zone that somehow meant CAS for rebels), and trying to destroy Russia's ally in the form of Assad.
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Funnily enough we're not doing anything nearly so "aggressive" in China where US inaction has given the Chinese a blank cheque to take over the whole of the South China Sea. The Asian Pivot was stillborn and never really eventuated in anything concrete.
Murderous Filipino president Duterte is 100% correct when he say's the "USA has lost."
The USA or it's "rules based order" did nothing to prevent the Chinese conquest of the South China Sea. Indeed the Chinese proved that ambition and a lot of concrete gets you much further than cowardice and a $600 USD billion high tech defence force.
So the USA diverts the world media's gaze from its impotence against the increasingly powerful Chinese to the third rate Russians.
The new Russian-USA Cold War is similar to the conflicts between the Ottomans and Persians. The Ottomans completely ignored the rise of Europe and by the time they woke up, they were the Sick Man Of Europe.