Political changes happen slowly mostly. We now see a re-balancing of the power structures with Brazil, India, China, groups of Asian countries improving their economies and power, the Europeans possibly establishing a common foreign policy, the US still the only superpower but sinking into debt, Russia looking for love and internal order, organizing South American states is in a muddle, Africa is still emerging.
Little Norway has earlier been under the wings of Denmark and Sweden, and is now part of the US foreign activist sphere to an extreme extent. Some say it is a union. This has gone too far, and new thinking is needed.
A good principle is to have deep peace and safety in relation to neighboring or nearest countries: Sweden, Finland, Russia, Denmark, Iceland, Great Britain, the Faraoes. As part of the EU sphere we need acceptance of this priority. Important trade partners need separate evaluations.
Being part of the EU is now an exercise in bureaucracy, NATO has lost its old raison-d’etre, and work at relations to the rest must be considered responsibly and independently.
The UN and its future should be discussed broadly: participation, weighting and voting, militarily, finance, health, climate etc.
All this means shifting the US down a peg, and shifting others up a bit. The US world empire thinking is still strong, but must change in accordance with its economy.
So let the strategy making, thinking and dialogue inside Norway start – a more peaceful world and truer independence than now must be the aim. Future pride is also part of it!
