Lingering questions at the end of Season 1 of Occupied

Continued praise for the smart, taut, and frighteningly realistic Norwegian series Occupied, about a Russian occupation of Norway and the rise of a resistance force within the country. The characters are complex and multidimensional - esp the beleaguered PM Jasper Berg - the villains are suitably loathsome yet somehow also human and vulnerable, the alliances are ever-shifting and tricky, and the action scenes keep you always on edge. In the final episodes of Season 1, the U.S. enters the story, in a shameful manner that we must hope never to see in reality (though it may give us a painful reminder of how we're coming to be seen by even our "allies"). Viewers will gradually become aware that there's no way all the plot elements can be resolved in 10 episodes, and sure enough you will not get a resolution at the end of episode 10 - but a cliffhanger, and an opening of a new phase of the story, keeping us on the hook for Season 2. In the interim, we can't stop thinking: Could it happen? Could Russia occupy a so-called friendly nation? If so, what we the reaction be? What would the occupied nation do? What would the world do? What would you do? Increasingly, these are not abstract questions; in fact, they're questions citizens of many countries have lived with and died with over the past century, and more. But in this age of bluster, posturing, snap decisions, and the potential for massive deaths and annihilation, these questions have new urgency. Despite all the nonsense and rhetoric of the campaign, America is not an occupied nation. But it's chilling: If Russia were to occupy Norway - in the Age of Trump, which one's our ally?