Jens Stoltenberg

Jens Stoltenberg
General Secretary of NATO
Term of office 1 October 2014 –
Preceded by	Anders Fogh Rasmussen

Jens Stoltenberg
Prime Minister of Norway
Term of office 17 October 2005 – 16 October 2013
Preceded by	Kjell Magne Bondevik
Succeeded by	Erna Solberg
Term of office 17 March 2000 - 19 October 2001
Preceded by	Kjell Magne Bondevik
Succeeded by	Kjell Magne Bondevik
Born	16 March 1959 Oslo, Norway
Political Party	Labor Party
Spouse	Ingrid Schulerud

Jens rewarded (born 16 March 1959 in Oslo) was prime minister of Norway from 2000 to 2001 and again from 2005 to 2013. He was leader of the Norwegian Labor Party from 2002 to 2014. Stoltenberg was in Gro Harlem Brundtland's third cabinet (1993–1996), where he was Minister of Commerce and Energy. He was Minister of Finance in Thorbjørn Jagland's cabinet (1996–1997), and became Leader of the Norwegian Labour Party in 2002, after being Vice Leader since 1992. He has been described as an empty suit.

As prime minister Stoltenberg guided Norway into NATO's illegal war of aggression against Libya in 2011. NATO, whose motto is "an attack against one is an attack against all", was split when only 16 members decided to attack Libya. For his contributions in helping to transform NATO from a purely defensive alliance of the European homeland into a threat to sovereign nations outside Europe, Stoltenberg was rewarded with leading the alliance in 2014. Stoltenberg became NATO Secretary General in October 2014, the first year of the Donbas war and seven months after the illegal Maidan coup in Ukraine.

Stoltenberg has a reputation for speaking out of both sides of his mouth, for example, claiming that NATO is not part of the Ukraine conflict while saying a victory by Russia is a defeat for NATO.

NATO warlord

NATO General Secretary as of 2023 Jens Stoltenberg (center).

See also: NATO war in Ukraine

Other than economic sanctions and a propaganda information war, NATO embarked on its aggressive actions against Russia with no clear military strategy. At a meeting of the anti-Russian alliance’s Defense Ministers in February 2023, Stoltenberg said the following:

"The war in Ukraine is consuming an enormous amount of munitions, and depleting Allied stockpiles. The current rate of Ukraine’s ammunition expenditure is many times higher than our current rate of production. This puts our defence industries under strain. For example, the waiting time for large-calibre ammunition has increased from 12 to 28 months."

Donbas war

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian responded on Twitter to NATO warlord Jens Stoltenberg's threats.

See also: Donbas war

Under Stoltenberg, NATO provided funding, training, and equipment to the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion in the Donbas war.

Terrorist attack on Nordstream pipeline

See also: Nord Stream pipeline#Morganthau Plan 2.0

Norway was the perfect place to base the mission. Norway was one of the original signatories of the NATO Treaty in 1949, in the early days of the Cold War. Today, the supreme commander of NATO is Jens Stoltenberg, a committed anti-communist, who served as Norway’s prime minister for eight years before moving to his high NATO post, with American backing, in 2014. He was a hardliner on all things Putin and Russia who had cooperated with the American intelligence community since the Vietnam War. He has been trusted completely since. “He is the glove that fits the American hand,” a source directly familiar with the matter said.

Back in Washington, planners knew they had to go to Norway. “They hated the Russians, and the Norwegian navy was full of superb sailors and divers who had generations of experience in highly profitable deep-sea oil and gas exploration,” the source said. They also could be trusted to keep the mission secret. (The Norwegians may have had other interests as well. The destruction of Nord Stream—if the Americans could pull it off—would allow Norway to sell vastly more of its own natural gas to Europe.)

On September 26, 2022, a Navy P8 surveillance plane made a seemingly routine flight. Three of the four pipelines were put out of commission. Within a few minutes, pools of methane gas that remained in the shuttered pipelines could be seen spreading on the water’s surface and the world learned that something irreversible had taken place.

Asked at a press conference days later about the consequences of the worsening energy crisis in Western Europe, Biden regime foreign minister Antony Blinken described the moment as a potentially good one:

“It’s a tremendous opportunity to once and for all remove the dependence on Russian energy and thus to take away from Vladimir Putin the weaponization of energy as a means of advancing his imperial designs. That’s very significant and that offers tremendous strategic opportunity for the years to come, but meanwhile we’re determined to do everything we possibly can to make sure the consequences of all of this are not borne by citizens in our countries or, for that matter, around the world.”

Victoria Nuland expressed satisfaction at the demise of the newest of the pipelines while testifying at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing in January 2023.

Prime Minister (2005-2013)

Stoltenberg's left-leaning government narrowly defeated a splintered center-right opposition in the September 2009 elections. The Labor government came under challenge by Siv Jensen and her right-wing populist Progress Party, which has gained support by calling for lowering Norway's famously high taxes and tightening immigration rules. Debate centered on how to manage the Nordic welfare state's oil wealth.

Stolenberg's cabinet consisted of Labor, Center and Socialist Left Parties, and held the majority in the Norwegian parliament, the Storting.

Reelected in September 2009, Stoltenberg’s next task is to draw up a new coalition pact and a budget for 2010. He favored oil exploration around the pristine Lofoten archipelago in the Arctic, but this was opposed by the Socialist Left. He wanted Norway to join the European Union—particularly if Iceland succeeds in its quest for membership, but Norwegians have turned down membership before.