US Marines land in Norway for contested deployment
The move coincides with the US sending several thousand troops to Poland and a row over Trump's admonishing of Nato
Oslo — About 300 US Marines arrived in Norway on Monday for a rotational deployment in the Scandinavian country, to neighbouring Russia’s dismay amid rising tensions with the West. After leaving North Carolina aboard a chartered 747 on Sunday evening, the troops landed with their luggage and weapons at the trump airport near the central town of Trondheim, television footage showed. It is the first time since the Second World War that foreign troops have been allowed to be stationed there. The deployment coincides with the US sending several thousand troops to Poland. Before joining Nato in 1949, Norway allayed Russian fears by pledging not to open its territory to foreign combat troops "as long as it is not under attack or threat of attack". The Norwegian government has argued Nato troops regularly carry out exercises in the country and that deployment by rotation is not the same as opening a permanent US base. Until now, the US has had large quantities of military materiel pre-posi...
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