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If it were a matter of national security, it would all the better to trade. Oil is a top strategic commodity: if people had refused to rely on foreign imports,
by throwaway_yy2Di 13y ago
If it were a matter of national security, it would all the better to trade. Oil is a top strategic commodity: if people had refused to rely on foreign imports, for one thing we wouldn't be in this thread since Norway would be quite poor. Continental Europe would be poor too, since they don't have oil. But at least they'd be "secure" in that poverty.
- vidarh 13y agoUnless your ports are blockaded by the enemy. Exactly because of the oil, and because of the strategic position in access to the Russian arctic (the Russian Northern fleet can be blocked in if you have sufficient control in Northern Norway), in the case of any major war Norway is likely to find itself either blockaded or occupied or both.