So I didn’t have cheering on a Norwegian fuel company on my bingo card for today… https://mastodon.social/@ianRobinson/114089366417182293
@aral Did you see too that the Norwegians are contemplating raiding their sovereign wealth fund to increase support of Ukraine?
@aral Can a Norwegian company involve itself in politics?
@ButterflyOfFire @aral is it a real news outlet?
@amunizp @ButterflyOfFire Several news outlets have articles up citing them as the source.
@aral @ButterflyOfFire not sure of the news outlets that are sharing it. I find it all a bit weird. I would be careful out there and wait for Monday.
Hi, official Norway government response:
Seems it was a post on Facebook that was later deleted.
Norway has doubled their aid to Ukraine:
https://euroweeklynews.com/2025/03/07/norway-more-than-doubles-aid-to-ukraine/
@amunizp @ButterflyOfFire Thanks for following up :)
@ButterflyOfFire @aral @amunizp Snopes looked into it. They did post, and later deleted, on Facebook that they wouldn’t service US Naval ships, and the CEO reiterated it in interviews.
It seems they didn’t do much business for US Naval ships anyway and this was a symbolic decision.
https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/03/04/norwegian-fuel-us-navy/
Thank you, Norway!
@aral @ianRobinson even a broken clock is right twice a day