Comments by "Luredreier" (@Luredreier) on "Can Wealthy Norway Save Europe?" video.

We've already promised to invest billions into the Ukrainian rebuilding... So has Sweden and Denmark. It's probably still going to be a really slow process. But Ukraine won't be alone in the rebuilding process.
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@Jonas.856 Kind of... Thing is, Norwegian "oliarchs" have limited power compared to the ones in other countries. And they're not looked up to by the Norwegian society at large. Any activity of theirs that's not for the benefit of society at large or strictly above board normal capitalism is scrutinized closely and will be judged.
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Actually, no, we can't save the EU even if we wanted. We can increase oil production and sales, but doing so takes time. As for contributing with money. While we own a lot it's still a relatively small amount compared to what bigger countries can mobilize with their economies if they genuinely want to. We're just 5 million people.
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Honestly it's not the best investment er could make... It probably should be done eventually, but in my view it should be a low priority project. More cars isn't helpful. And there's a lot of other infrastructure that would pay more dividend for our society then connections going across all of the fjords and between all of the islands. Connecting everything to land though absolutely makes sense.
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@Hession0Drasha The west coast is not the part with a decent climate. That's the southeast. Basically the only good weather in Norway is east of the mountains. It's also the southeast and central Norway that has most of the agricultural land of the country. The west has a limited carrying capacity, if for whatever reason more people start living there that would mean that we'd have to import more food there becoming even worse at self sufficiency then before... The west only really have fish and some limited agricultural areas. Great for fruit. But seriously, I don't think that we should aim at significantly increasing population anywhere but central and southeastern Norway.
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@TheJorben89 "Vassal" isn't accurate. Norway is still a sovereign nation with the right to veto EU laws being sent our way and make laws of our own. We usually don't, but that doesn't mean that we *can't*.
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