Crimea and Russia

One shall be sober. When the Crimean secession from Ukraine is problematic, it is because the Russian sphere develops. There has been other secessions, which have not sparked the same tension, and I am thinking of former Yugoslavia and of nations in Africa. Acknowledging this, one should be open about it, and name a spade a spade, as we say in Norwegian.

Russia is a superpower. And most people, I believe, want superpowers to be serving, only. We are not familiar with the Russian in the same way as we are familiar with the Englishman and the American. Russia is, though, a Christian nation.

In Norway, we should know the Russian. We have history together, since the Viking area. In fact, I believe the Norwegian was the one who made the Russian a bear.

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