Today, the 8 May 2009 marks the 64th anniversary of my country’s (i.e. Norway’s) liberation from five years’ German wartime occupation, reminding us how fragile a country’s freedom actually is – of which we are constantly informed, through perpetual global unrest.
We were all shocked and appalled as Russian forces poured into Georgian South Ossetia – and well into the very heart of the country – last August, threatening to occupy the young nation in the long haul.
Allegations would have it that Georgian forces themselves provoked the invasion in their search …

Well I’ll be damned. I know it’s 1 April, and that it’s almost too good to be true, but you never know with the new American administration, now do you… I’m talking about The Washington Post’s breaking news today, that Russia and the USA have agreed to start talks in order to reduce the number of nuclear warheads.
President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev were set to announce the talks on Wednesday during their first meeting, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said in London, site of the G20 summit. …

I know that I’ve touched on the subject more than once, but this is serious business, boys and girls. Only weeks ago, Russia deployed warships to Venezuelan waters, doing all they can in order to build up the already sharpened east-west tension. More recently – today, to be precise – long-range missiles were testfired north of Japan and off the Norwegian coast, all reaching their targets inside Russia, or as president Dmitry Medvedev, according to Reuters, put it:
“I have just been told that the dummy warhead has landed in Kura,” …

I wrote an article on the return of the cold war over at iNorden some time ago, even though the matter has had me worried for quite some time, really, and honestly, recent developments give plenty of cause for concern. In today’s New York Times there’s a brief account on Russia’s deployment of warships in South American waters, we’re beginning to get an impression of what’s actually taking place:
The convoy – including the nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser Peter the Great and the anti-submarine ship Admiral Chabanenko – left the fleet’s …