Hello action, meet my friend, consequences.

Yeah, the pandemic revealed a quick and easy way to drastically cut CO₂ emissions. Humanity really doesn’t need to travel as much as we do, at least not by plane. A lot, and I really mean a lot, of air traffic is for stuff which should be solved with online meetings. I see this at work too, everything got solved online during the pandemic. But, as soon as restrictions were lifted people absolutely HAD to travel by plane somewhere for a meeting and then return home on a plane, often doing both trips in the same day. Sure some of the air traffic is for leisure, sightseeing and so on. I don’t like travelling far myself so I’m a bit biased, but do we really need to fly around the world 5 times a year? We survived the pandemic by staying at home, surely we can cut down on some air traffic to save the world?

I totally agree, but someone on the ship actually is responsible for following orders from whoever (Russia) to dump anchor and drag it along the seabed. I refuse to believe the captain did all of it himself, or held the crew at gunpoint to force them to do it. Most of the crew are surely innocent or, at worst, were actively ignoring the crime they collectively were doing. It is fully possible for the crew to ignore orders, they could possibly lose their jobs, but they decided their jobs were worth more than not propagating Nazi Russia’s stupid hybrid war.

Actions have consequences. Do stupid shit, win stupid prizes. And so on.

It is extremely obvious all these cable cutting “accidents” are done on purpose by Russia, Russian actors, or someone contracted by Russia. The ship should be seized and used for financing new cables, even if it the rusty bathtub is only worth a couple of bucks. Most importantly the crew (regardless of nationality) needs to be sentenced to something like 20-30 years in jail for acts of war or the like. Then future crews and shipping companies will realise the cost of accepting these contracts from Russia.

Yes, I know, I can read Norwegian. The name of the bank is still “Norges Bank”, not “Norges”. NBIM is a department of Norges Bank managing the Governement Pension Fund of Norway. As you are very set on it being called “Norges” I assume you can read Norwegian and can read the Norwegian Wikipedia article on the department:

https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norges_Bank_Investment_Management

Here, I’ll even throw you a bone and link the English article for Norges Bank:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norges_Bank

See the part where it’s name is “Norges Bank” and not “Norges”?

It’s about companies involved with the Israeli military and their actions in Gaza. The rest have either, not been found to be involved, or are being kept as a bargaining chip I guess.

If the central bank of England was named “Englands Bank” would you call it Englands?

Norges Bank literally means Bank of Norway, and is the central bank of Norway. Norge is the name of Norway in Norwegian. In Norwegian you add a s after a noun to make it possessive.

Edit: Downvoting changes neither the name of the bank, nor Norwegian grammar, lol. This place is so Reddit-brained.

It ain’t really a secret that the EU wants to bottom trawl and surgically remove every fish in Norwegian waters. As can be seen every time the quotas are distributed and the EU is on the brink of threatening war with Norway over them.

Guess what would happen the instant Norway joined the EU with the current deal that’s on the table.

When the US introduces tariffs on smaller weaker nations (allegedly as a protective measure) the EU screams about how unfair it is and how it will hurt the global market and the US.

But when the EU introduces tariff on a smaller weaker nation it’s suddenly necessary, cool and rad.

Okay sure, sound logic.

Preferably we’d be self-sufficient since Europe has a lot of, if not most of the rare earth minerals in various deposits. But, no wants to deal with the ugly process of extraction and processing, not to mention the upfront costs. Until someone steps up I guess we sadly have to deal with China.

Can they standardize some kind of ice road driving experience requirement if you are driving somewhere it gets cold in the winter? It’s a constant problem with people who have never seen snow before racing around like maniacs on slippery ice roads in the Nordics, often with summer tyres. Both cars and heavy lorries from central and southern Europe often crash in the winter, and they’re always surprised at ice being more difficult to drive on than plain asphalt. There’s a reason it’s an obligatory part of driving education in the north.

They’ve been ramping up acquisition and production as much as they reasonably can the last few years. The rest of us should really follow their example. Luckily the production is increasing all over Europe, though it should have begun much much sooner than this. The hard part going forward is manpower (as stated in the article), and all the command structures needing to be rebuilt without the US. And, over time removing the dependence on America for air defence, both planes and land-based missile defences. Fully local drone production is also going to be a game changer, as we have seen the importance of drones in Ukraine.

Shit, I hate mines as much as the next guy, but against a Russia who doesn’t care about any kind of laws or rules of war you have to use all the tools at your disposal to keep them away.

Europe should probably invest in some kind of European FASCAM alternative. So in the event the Russians actually do launch an attack we can absolutely cover the roads, fields, and forests their side of the border several kilometres deep with mines. While we bunker down and just keep draining their resources on clearing mines in their own land.

There’s some serious NIMBY’ing going on with new manufacturing. People understandably don’t want to live next door to a explosives factory. So the next option is to build the factories far away in some forest, but then environmentalists get up in arms over forests being cut down. Also, the longer commute makes it harder to get workers.

All in all it’s a lose-lose situation. Hopefully someone can cut through, find an agreeable solution somewhere in the middle, and start building new factories.