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Ine Eriksen Søreide

Ine Eriksen Søreide

Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Norway

Aug 13, 2026

25:39
Uh, could you maybe just assess, y- you know, maybe, uh, you know, describe this, this threat from your perspective, and then, and then what more we can do to counter it?
25:49
Well, I think you're absolutely right, and I remember back in 2016 when cyberattacks was, um, made part of an Article 5 situation, and that, that really was, uh, a watershed, I would say, in, in the NATO context.
26:02
But it was necessary because this is what Russia does every day.
26:06
Um, and they are doing cyberattacks.
26:09
They are doing, uh, different kind of sabotage, preparing for attacks, preparing for sabotage, and they are doing influence operations, a lot of them.
26:19
Uh, and of course, they are designed to break up, uh, the support for NATO.
26:24
It's designed to, first and foremost right now, break up the support for Ukraine.

9 MINS LATER

35:28
Could you maybe share your thoughts about what more we can do to compete effectively with this axis of aggressors and, as you mentioned, take on the full dimension of the threat, including, I would say, a major threat of, of economic aggression, uh, from China and the way it's, it's sort of weaponized its predatory economy, its mercantilist economy against, uh, our free market economies?

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