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They’re an extremely moderate social democracy akin to european ones, and have suffered considerably because of it. The surprising part is that they’ve managed to keep on the trajectory of having regulated capitalism with some social welfare and nationalized oil without the socdems in charge turning coat and becoming neolibs, without the neolibs managing to coup them despite repeated attempts that have gone completely unpunished, and without any sort of swing to the left as they watch all this moderate capitalism and tolerance for reactionary power blocs only serve to allow reactionaries to keep attacking them from within while still being isolated and attacked by the US for the sin of being a designated subaltern periphery state that dares do regulation and own its own natural resources.
They still deserve support, obviously, and they serve as a very clear example of the racist hypocrisy behind US foreign policy when a state as moderate as Norway gets treated as a pariah simply because they’re not white and because they’re located within the sphere of influence that the US empire claims as its subjects to be subjugated and looted as it pleases.
They’re an extremely moderate social democracy akin to european ones, and have suffered considerably because of it. The surprising part is that they’ve managed to keep on the trajectory of having regulated capitalism with some social welfare and nationalized oil without the socdems in charge turning coat and becoming neolibs, without the neolibs managing to coup them despite repeated attempts that have gone completely unpunished, and without any sort of swing to the left as they watch all this moderate capitalism and tolerance for reactionary power blocs only serve to allow reactionaries to keep attacking them from within while still being isolated and attacked by the US for the sin of being a designated subaltern periphery state that dares do regulation and own its own natural resources.
They still deserve support, obviously, and they serve as a very clear example of the racist hypocrisy behind US foreign policy when a state as moderate as Norway gets treated as a pariah simply because they’re not white and because they’re located within the sphere of influence that the US empire claims as its subjects to be subjugated and looted as it pleases.