Norway will host 330 U.S. marines on a rotational deployment in January, in a move likely to increase tensions with Russia.
The country’s Ministry of Defense announced Tuesday that the U.S. troops were “highly welcome” in Norway, one of the few NATO members to share a border with Russia.
Members of the alliance have been on high alert since Russia’s annexation of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, in particular those who border Russia, as Ukraine does. Norway is in the process of building a border fence with Russia, though claims that this is intended to ward off migrants.
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Source: Newsweek
