The extraordinary meeting of the Council of State at the Royal Palace in Oslo on Wednesday followed a serious misstep by Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, who convened a Nordic summit with Canada’s Mark Carney and signalled that an expanded Nordic region would pursue an independent security policy, emphasising the High North. This coincided with Donald Trump in Washington calling for allied support.
What is lost in any cultural revolution is not, first and foremost, institutions, laws, or economic structures. It is something far more subtle — and far harder to rebuild. It is trust. It is continuity. It is the quiet certainty within a person that the world makes sense, and that this sense is shared by others.
President Trump has asked America’s allied to help secure the Strait of Hormuz. Several countries have declined. The president argues that the lack of support will have consequences for the future of NATO.
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