Putin Is Testing NATO on Norway’s Remote Arctic Islands
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While everyone is looking at the Baltic states, the Russian threat could very well come from a completely different direction. On Spitsbergen, a Norwegian...
Russia's increasing hybrid activity in Svalbard is raising fears that Moscow could trigger an incident that would test NATO's Article 5 on collective defense.
Svalbard, an archipelago in the Arctic that belongs to Norway, has been known for decades for its harsh weather conditions and polar bears, but in recent years Russia has posed a growing security threat, writes Politico.
Russia began to put pressure on NATO and the North, and the Kremlin regime and Vladimir Putin seem determined to see how far they can go in the hostile actions of the Western alliance.
Russia's growing activity in the Arctic area of the Svalbard archipelago fuels fears that Moscow might cause an incident to test NATO's commitment to collective defence.
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