from HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works to world@lemmy.world on 12 Mar 09:55
https://sh.itjust.works/post/56674017
Prime Minister Mark Carney will be in Yellowknife on Thursday before heading to Norway and the United Kingdom for meetings with allied leaders.
While in Norway he’ll travel north beyond the Arctic Circle this weekend to observe NATO’s massive biennial Cold Response training exercise, which is taking place against a backdrop of heightened international tensions, including the ongoing war in the Middle East between the United States and Israel and Iran.
Accompanying the prime minister to the military exercise will be his Norwegian counterpart and the chancellor of Germany.
Canadian troops are participating — alongside approximately 25,000 soldiers from 14 nations — in the Norwegian-led Cold Response.
“The Nordic countries coming together with Canada, having leaders visit the military exercise in northern Norway, this tells [U.S. President] Donald Trump that we’ve got Arctic security covered, that he doesn’t need to worry about it,” said (Michael) Byers (an expert in the Arctic and geopolitics at the University of British Columbia).
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