Wednesday, September 10, 2014
"Strategic Autonomy" of EU
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The 21st century brings great changes for the world order. The French recognize these and want Europe to keep up with the US and China. Will France lead Europe towards a superpower?
In 2016 strategic autonomy became part of the European Union Global Strategy doctrine to improve the defense capabilities of the European Union, including the setting up of a European Defence Fund established in 2017. Strategic autonomy became central to the European Commission led by Ursula von der Leyen, who stated her intention to have a “geopolitical commission.” Members of the Von der Leyen Commission including Josep Borrell and Thierry Breton claim that Europe's soft power needs to be complemented by a harder power dimension.
Initially the concept of the European strategic autonomy has been inspired and by France, which advocated for this strategy at the European Union's level. Strategic autonomy has however developed into a broader concept that includes economic, energy and digital policy, and initiatives such as GAIA-X. European Union Member States, such as Germany, display different preferences than France when it comes to the priorities of a strategic autonomy policy. Strategic autonomy expanded to the digital policy of the European Union with an objective to ascertain European sovereignty against China.
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Strategic autonomy is a policy objective of the European Union. Strategic autonomy is the ability of the European Union to defend Europe and act militarily in its neighborhood without so much reliance on the United States.
A first reference to strategic autonomy in the discussions of the European council of ministers can be dated back to December 2013. The European Council called for the development of European defense capabilities to enhance the strategic autonomy of the European Union.In 2016 strategic autonomy became part of the European Union Global Strategy doctrine to improve the defense capabilities of the European Union, including the setting up of a European Defence Fund established in 2017. Strategic autonomy became central to the European Commission led by Ursula von der Leyen, who stated her intention to have a “geopolitical commission.” Members of the Von der Leyen Commission including Josep Borrell and Thierry Breton claim that Europe's soft power needs to be complemented by a harder power dimension.
Initially the concept of the European strategic autonomy has been inspired and by France, which advocated for this strategy at the European Union's level. Strategic autonomy has however developed into a broader concept that includes economic, energy and digital policy, and initiatives such as GAIA-X. European Union Member States, such as Germany, display different preferences than France when it comes to the priorities of a strategic autonomy policy. Strategic autonomy expanded to the digital policy of the European Union with an objective to ascertain European sovereignty against China.
Strategic autonomy was a priority in European defense policy during the presidency of DJT in the United States, seen as an unreliable partner by the European Union. The goal of strategic autonomy is however not to act alone militarily, and the European Union can be characterized as non-interventionist in nature. The election of Joe Biden in the United States brought expectations of a Euro-Atlantic unity that has to be reconciled with the strategic autonomy of the European Union. The election of Joe Biden has brought discord between France and Germany over the future of European defense and strategic autonomy.
00:00 Intro
01:30 Archimedes lever
04:50 European hard-politics
09:04 Macrons big ambitions
16:02 A superpower for peaceful times
19:11 Outro
01:30 Archimedes lever
04:50 European hard-politics
09:04 Macrons big ambitions
16:02 A superpower for peaceful times
19:11 Outro
Sweden's NATO Question
Sweden's Strategic Posture. Will the Swedes Join NATO? - gtbt > .23-9-22 Sweden in the EU - EU Made SIMPLE > .22-12-10 Sweden's joining NATO would crush Russian power - Caspian > .
00:00 Intro
01:00 Geostrategic pause
04:27 The key to the Baltic's defense
09:15 Breaking strategic neutrality
13:40 Outro
2016 Sweden concerned about Russian provocation → Gotland - BBC > .
Gotland ((
listen); Gutland, local dialect), also historically spelled Gottland or Gothland is Sweden's largest island. It is also a province, county, municipality, and diocese. The province includes the islands of Fårö and Gotska Sandön to the north, as well as the Karlsö Islands (Lilla and Stora) to the west. The population is 58,595, of which about 23,600 live in Visby, the main town. The island of Gotland and the other areas of the province of Gotland make up less than one percent of Sweden's total land area. From a military viewpoint, it occupies a strategic location in the Baltic Sea. As of 2018, the Gotland Regiment has been re-raised and it is the first time since WW2 that a new regiment has been established in Sweden.
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The current Lithuania–Poland border has existed since the re-establishment of the independence of Lithuania on March 11, 1990. Until then the identical border was between Poland and the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union. The length of the border is 104 kilometres (65 mi). It runs from the Lithuania–Poland–Russia tripoint southeast to the Belarus–Lithuania–Poland tripoint.
It is the only land border that the European Union- and NATO-member Baltic states share with a country that is not a member of the Russian-aligned Commonwealth of Independent States. To the military planners of NATO, the [chokepoint] border area is known as the Suwalki gap (named after the nearby town of Suwałki), because it represents a tough-to-defend flat narrow piece of land, a gap, that is between Belarus and Russia's Kaliningrad exclave and that connects the NATO-member Baltic States to Poland and the rest of NATO.
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Sweden adopted neutrality for years, but the present times pose new geostrategic challenges for the Swedes. So Stockholm joined NATO.
00:00 Intro
01:00 Geostrategic pause
04:27 The key to the Baltic's defense
09:15 Breaking strategic neutrality
13:40 Outro
Funding NATO ..
Sweden's NATO Question ..
listen); Gutland, local dialect), also historically spelled Gottland or Gothland is Sweden's largest island. It is also a province, county, municipality, and diocese. The province includes the islands of Fårö and Gotska Sandön to the north, as well as the Karlsö Islands (Lilla and Stora) to the west. The population is 58,595, of which about 23,600 live in Visby, the main town. The island of Gotland and the other areas of the province of Gotland make up less than one percent of Sweden's total land area. From a military viewpoint, it occupies a strategic location in the Baltic Sea. As of 2018, the Gotland Regiment has been re-raised and it is the first time since WW2 that a new regiment has been established in Sweden.https://www.foi.se/report-summary?rep... .
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https://neweasterneurope.eu/2020/09/2... .
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articl... .
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https://www.defensenews.com/global/eu... .
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs... .
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It is the only land border that the European Union- and NATO-member Baltic states share with a country that is not a member of the Russian-aligned Commonwealth of Independent States. To the military planners of NATO, the [chokepoint] border area is known as the Suwalki gap (named after the nearby town of Suwałki), because it represents a tough-to-defend flat narrow piece of land, a gap, that is between Belarus and Russia's Kaliningrad exclave and that connects the NATO-member Baltic States to Poland and the rest of NATO.
In July 2016, two years after the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation and the beginning of the War in Donbass, NATO's member states agreed at the 2016 Warsaw summit to forward NATO Enhanced Forward Presence. A 2017 NATO exercise was for the first time focused on defense of the gap from a possible Russian attack. As well in 2017, Russia and Belarus had the Zapad 2017 exercise. In 2020, Ben Hodges and Heinrich Brauss wrote a study for the think tank Center for European Policy Analysis.
Tuesday, September 9, 2014
Turkey versus Greece
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