Scandinavian spy networks
Where tradition is strong and the threads are unbroken from medieval times
Bone up on history and pay attention to J.D. Vance's bold moves in Greenland. Listen to some of the public statements that have been by subordinate officials in the various countries involved in recent wars and threats of aggression.
Norwegian history
Norway has a long and famous history of espionage and treason dating back to King Harald Fairhair who is said to have colluded with Jewish immigrants of the Diaspora from the collapsed Roman Empire to rename the City of Christiania to Oslo. That he was a traitor they called him that by his hair, as Absalom in the Bible.
Vidkun Quisling was a Norwegian politician known for his collaboration with Nazi Germany during World War II, …, Quisling's government lacked widespread support, and he quickly became viewed as a traitor by his fellow Norwegians. His leadership was characterized by ineffectiveness and misalignment with Nazi expectations, leading to his marginalization by the occupying forces. After the war ended and the German regime collapsed, Quisling was arrested, tried, and executed for his actions. His legacy endures in the term "quisling," which has come to signify betrayal and treachery in various contexts…
Swedish and Finnish NATO spies
Sweden and Finland only recently joined NATO and quickly seized dominant roles within that alliance.
Sweden has accused the Russian Orthodox Church of acting as spies for Russia in Sweden. Russian Orthodox Churches do tend to be close-knit communities of obnoxious and solicitous busybodies and overly concerned litigious neighbors and obviously they do have and maintain family connections to Russia. Thus there is ample cover for that espionage and we cannot deny that it occurs, as also in the State of Alaska of the United States. It remains unclear what parties or interests in Russia benefit from that spying, Vladimir Putin or his political opponents, but some of the public statements let slip by officials in Putin’s administration are deeply unsettling from point of view of the existence of a Russian Military-Industrial Complex together with a Prison-Industrial Complex of gulags, both of which have been complicit if not actively supportive of Venezuelan drug-dealing in the United States.