Brussels—five months ago, Jens Stoltenberg Was preparing for a decent job in Norway by running one of the world’s most stable central banks and the richest sovereign-wealth fund. Instead, he is now flirting with extreme risks in the form of nuclear war after signing on to an extraordinary fourth term as NATO Secretary General.
Mr Stoltenberg, the former Norwegian prime minister, began heading the North Atlantic Treaty Organization months later in 2014 Russia annexed the Crimean peninsula from Ukraine And incited rebellion in the east of the country. Since then, he has overseen the biggest transformation and Expansion of the Western Military Alliance since the Cold War.