{"id":699053,"date":"2026-01-16T03:44:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T03:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/699053\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T03:44:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T03:44:15","slug":"the-arctic-camp-where-troops-are-training-for-war-with-russia-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/699053\/","title":{"rendered":"The Arctic camp where troops are training for war with Russia \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps for this reason, Ellehus suggested NATO itself is holding back. \u201cThe one voice that has been quite silent is that of NATO,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s quite odd that Mark Rutte has not issued a secretary general statement expressing solidarity with Denmark and underscoring that any security concerns that the United States might have could legitimately be addressed through the NATO alliance, because both Denmark and Greenland are members of their territories covered by the Article Five guarantee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it does have consequences in terms of the credibility of the alliance, and I think we could see an intensification of the practice whereby allies are turning to bilateral or regional relationships, score and meet their security to meet their security needs, rather than relying on multinational alliances like NATO.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A new era<\/p>\n<p>A reminder of how fast multilateralism is changing hangs on the library wall in the quaint, pink and white British embassy in Helsinki.<\/p>\n<p>The photo, dated July 1975, shows British Prime Minister Harold Wilson in the embassy garden with U.S. President Gerald Ford, Henry Kissinger and others on the cusp of signing the Helsinki Accords. The agreement, emphasizing the rights of sovereignty and territorial integrity, was part of a drumbeat toward the end of the Cold War.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/55042015207_96ca5df68c_o-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7774581\"  \/>Britain\u2019s extreme weather training in this area dates to the Cold War, but Camp Viking \u2014 its facility in Skjold, northern Norway \u2014 is new and growing. | Ben Dance \/ FCDO<\/p>\n<p>Across the street in Helsinki is the fortress-like embassy of the U.S. \u2014 where Trump is one of those calling the shots on territorial integrity these days. As well as his designs on Greenland, the president recently said NATO \u201cwould not be an effective force or deterrent\u201d without American military power and said he did not need international law.<\/p>\n<p>Britain and many of its allies are loath to accept any suggestion of any cracks in the alliance. Asked by POLITICO if NATO was in crisis, Finland\u2019s Foreign Minister Elisa Valtonen insisted: \u201cNATO is stronger than it\u2019s ever been.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Perhaps for this reason, Ellehus suggested NATO itself is holding back. \u201cThe one voice that has been quite&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":699054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[14787,2001,6659,473,365,32,769,366,22529,2817,601,518,2820,2992,2597,1115,8041,2661,2822,332,811,1398,42660,2824,657,15,49,771,5113],"class_list":{"0":"post-699053","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-cold-war","9":"tag-communications","10":"tag-crisis","11":"tag-defense","12":"tag-denmark","13":"tag-donald-trump","14":"tag-finland","15":"tag-greenland","16":"tag-henry-kissinger","17":"tag-intelligence","18":"tag-jd-vance","19":"tag-king-charles-iii","20":"tag-marco-rubio","21":"tag-mark-rutte","22":"tag-military","23":"tag-norway","24":"tag-nuclear-weapons","25":"tag-oil","26":"tag-regions-cohesion","27":"tag-russia","28":"tag-security","29":"tag-shipping","30":"tag-submarines","31":"tag-tanks","32":"tag-ukraine","33":"tag-united-kingdom","34":"tag-united-states","35":"tag-war","36":"tag-yvette-cooper"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115902720544507547","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/699054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}