On Ukraine and Russia, from a Christian point of view, Kjell Skartveit from the Conservative Party had a very good post on 23 March 2025 on document.no under the headline “Carelessness cannot be defended with Christian faith”.
And he illustrated this by quoting from Luke 14:31-32: “Or what king will go to war without first sitting down and considering whether with ten thousand men he can meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? If not, he sends envoys while the other is still far away, to ask for peace.”
In other words: Realism trumps ideology, even in this somewhat imperfect world of ours. J.D. Vance put it this way on behalf of the recently elected and popular President Donald Trump: Russia is not Europe’s danger; it is Europe’s internal, undemocratic enemies that are the dangerous ones. But the latter, led by EU President Ursula the Great, sat in the audience at the Munich Security Conference and had their jaws dropped. Imagine the cheek of Vance, interfering in internal European politics!
But what haven’t European leaders, almost without exception, done in the last ten years to oppose Trump? Worst of all, they openly cheered on the corrupt Biden regime and argued against Trump until the very end, so talk about meddling in the internal affairs of other states – long live falsehood!
That the socialist Biden regime has been totally exposed as national and otherwise treasonous is meanwhile established with certainty, it was not an issue in Munich. Vance was graceful and non-threatening in his delivery of the value differences that have emerged across the Atlantic, but clear that peace in Ukraine was Trump’s top priority.
But astonishingly, the socialists within the EU now believe that the war should continue, without being able to logically explain themselves, other than that they want to have a say, obviously to avoid losing prestige. However, unlike the Luke parable, the socialists are not on the side of reason and must be rejected. What’s more, they know the background to the Ukraine conflict, with NATO on the wrong side of the full truth. But when the US, which controls NATO, says enough is enough, what kind of whistle blower does the Ursula regime have to offer?
This is all so disturbing in terms of the differences of opinion in the old defence alliance that both the EU and NATO may be on the verge of collapse, all the more so as Russia is pragmatic and no longer a logical aggressor, it is propagandistic bullshit from someone who cannot bear to lose face.
Norway can’t defend itself.
Norway cannot be defended by the EU until perhaps ten years from now, so talk of an EU army is also bullshit in practical terms. In the meantime, Norway is defenceless and must think like the king in the Gospel of Luke by being pragmatic: Leave both the EU and NATO and get a bilateral defence pact with the US, which already has several military bases in our country. Jonas Gahr Støre must now stop sitting on the fence and speaking with two tongues. The fact that the US has become conservative is reassuring for Norway, not threatening.
Foggy talk does not reassure Norway and the Norwegian people, we are entitled to expect the Støre government and the next government to speak truthfully and directly about what is now in Norway’s best interests as a neighbour to Russia. A defence pact with Russia is actually far better than a defence pact with the weak, dilapidated EU. As Skartveit did well to emphasise: Security trumps games of chance, and realism trumps ideology. Honestly, Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre does not have the country’s best interests at heart if he is now bogged down in ideology; the people’s reasonable demand is national conservative security, which we also had before previous Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland’s time.
Dan Odfjell, social commentator