What would Keir Starmer do if a group of Norwegians supported by the Norwegian government invaded tomorrow killing thousands?

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Raping them, brining children, taking hostages then held them for a year. Then promised they would do it again and again any time they had the power or chance.

Do you think we'd invade Norway?

Do you think we'd have domestic or international support?

What a stupid strawman argument. IGNORING all the history of the Palestinians and what they have been through to start with.

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Well, it would be a NATO matter, since both the UK and Norway are part of the military alliance. A very different dynamic than in the case of Israel and Palestine.

This is a ridiculous attempt at an analogy from which we can learn precisely nothing! Try again.

Are you ignoring the history of every other country on the planet?

The UK was invaded by France, are we going to invade?

Has the thought experiment now shifted from Norway to France?

@RadioBamboo the thought experiment allows the country invading to be replaced by any country on Earth.

Have we not had that once already with the Vikings?

Go on then, OP, what do you think he would do? Points taken off for mentioning free glasses or tickets to events because that wouldn’t be original 🥱

I mean, Ireland would work better. But both countries are in NATO, signed the Belfast Agreement and have cordial diplomatic relations.

Can I say it first please everyone?

• op, are you on glue?

FYI Ireland is not in NATO but agree Ireland may have made slightly more sense than Norway in this bizarre scenario

And in your scenario would Britain be completely innocent prior to the event and have no idea why this would occur. The Norwegians also have no reason to attack just fancied a killing spree.

(FYI not justifying the actions of October 7th)

As a Norwegian I also ask OP - are you on glue?

Invade Norway.

Britain has never been completely innocent.

Slightly off topic but was ‘brining children’ a typo?

In relation to Norway ? Apart from some people on fjord cruises being a bit miffed about alcohol prices, our relationship with Norway is very cordial.

Your analogy is ridiculous.

What on earth are you talking about? The UK Government supports Israel.

(Your Norway analogy is nonsensical, too.)

I reckon he'd have a big swear.

I don't think we'd invade Norway though.

The UK would be completely incapable of launching a unilateral invasion of Norway even if it wanted to.

Utterly ridiculous analogy to begin with though.

Not a stupid statement. FFS!

Forget Norway.

However, should any country said their terrorists here to rape, torture and kidnap people from Glastonbury and from villages we would respond.

I can't imagine any country telling us not to. To sit back and do nothing.

Should a couple of other surrounding countries celebrate the attack on us and then start firing missiles at us, then we would respond to those as well.

Oh, very retro. Haven't seen that on here for years.

And you would be totally justified. But if the person who thought out these attacks were hiding in Amsterdam, you perhaps would get some raised eyebrows if you flattened whole swathes of the city with bombs, rained missiles on their hospitals, gave warning that whole neighbourhoods had to be evacuated and then rained a few more missiles on the evacuees in supposedly safe areas. "Well, we are looking to kill one person" wouldn´t cut it.
This scenario is only possible in certain areas of the world, and definitely, Europe isn´t one of them.