Monday, September 22, 2014

Geostrategic Challenges - Europe 2022

22-5-27 Europe Needs Ukraine to Overcome its Strategic Weaknesses - Kamome > .
23-7-31 Iron Curtain to Iron Fist: Viktor Orbán Redefining Hungary - Pers > .
22-12-5 German Development Model: Rise, Merkel, Ru, Crisis, Scholz, Xina - gtbt > .
22-12-2 Austria, Hungary, Serbia, Croatia - Danube & Europe's Future - Kraut > .
22-11-22 Why [the Ruscian Federation] cannot become a democracy - Caspian > .
22-11-22 Energy in Europe: Ukrainian Consequences - PZ > .
22-10-7 What If Pootin Nukes Ukraine? - OBF > .
"Eastern Europe"
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00:00 Europe's Strategic Weaknesses
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01:54 Europe's Main Geopolitical Weaknesses in Continental Europe
05:00 Eastern Europe strategic value for the EU and Russia
08:39 European Union Interests in the Caucasus
10:16 Europe in the Caucasus
11:01 The Importance of Central Asian Fossil Fuels
15:09 Europe interests in Africa
20:24 Europe in the Arctic
24:58 Europe's 5 main areas of interest

Australia's Maritime Strategy: https://youtu.be/RhN9C4yPALI . 
Strategic Importance of Afghanistan: https://youtu.be/k1j_B6PiPjU . 
The Malacca Dilemma: https://youtu.be/PJReTyTbbZ4 .

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German Economy - 20th to 21st

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Gibraltar

Gibraltar: Strikes, Spies, Submarines, and Saboteurs - Geo > .Gibraltar: What's inside The Rock? 1 - Forces > .Nec Plus Ultra: The Strait of Gibraltar - Galilei > .> EU >> 
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1:10 - Why is Gibraltar British ? 
2:05 - WW1 (The big strike) 
5:55 - Mid roll ads 
7:25 - Felix, Tracer, Goldeneye 
13:40 -The prince, the queen & the hangman
20:28 - The last blockade 

Gibraltar: The History of the Rock Across 14 Sieges - Geo > .

Gibraltar is a British Overseas Territory located at the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula. It has an area of 6.7 km2 (2.6 sq mi) and is bordered to the north by Spain. The landscape is dominated by the Rock of Gibraltar at the foot of which is a densely populated town area, home to over 32,000 people, primarily Gibraltarians.

In 1704, Anglo-Dutch forces captured Gibraltar from Spain during the War of the Spanish Succession on behalf of the Habsburg claim to the Spanish throne. The territory was ceded to Great Britain in perpetuity under the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713. During the Napoleonic Wars and WW2 it was an important base for the Royal Navy as it controlled the entrance and exit to the Mediterranean Sea, the Strait of Gibraltar, which is only 14.3 km (8.9 mi) wide at this naval choke point.
 
During WW2, most of Gibraltar's civilian population was evacuated, mainly to London, but also to parts of Morocco and Madeira and to Gibraltar Camp in Jamaica. The Rock was strengthened as a fortress. On 18 July 1940, the Vichy French air force attacked Gibraltar in retaliation for the British bombing of the Vichy navy. 
The naval base and the ships based there played a key role in the provisioning and supply of the island of Malta during its long siege. As well as frequent short runs, known as "Club Runs", towards Malta to fly off aircraft reinforcements (initially Hurricanes, but later, notably from the USN aircraft carrier Wasp, Spitfires), the critical Operation Pedestal convoy was run from Gibraltar in August 1942. This resupplied the island at a critical time in the face of concentrated air attacks from German and Italian forces. Spanish dictator Francisco Franco's reluctance to allow the German Army onto Spanish soil frustrated a German plan to capture the Rock, codenamed Operation Felix.
Gibraltar remains strategically important, with half the world's seaborne trade passing through the strait. Today Gibraltar's economy is based largely on tourism, online gambling, financial services and bunkering.

The sovereignty of Gibraltar is a point of contention in Anglo-Spanish relations because Spain asserts a claim to the territory. Gibraltarians rejected proposals for Spanish sovereignty in a 1967 referendum and, in a 2002 referendum, the idea of shared sovereignty was also rejected.

On 31 January 2020, the UK and Gibraltar left the European Union. In December 2020, the UK and Spain agreed in principle to a basis on which the UK and the EU might negotiate terms for Gibraltar to participate in aspects of the Schengen Agreement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibraltar .


Gibraltar in WW1:
http://livelb.nationalarchives.gov.uk...​ .
https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online...​ .

Gibraltar in WW2:
https://www.visitgibraltar.gi/history...​ . 

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...​ .

David Scherr vs the Saboteurs:
https://www.mi5.gov.uk/the-battle-for...​ .

The Queen of Hearts: 
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Sunday, September 21, 2014

Hungary's Slide

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21-9-4 How Viktator Orbán rigged Hungary's Democracy - Into > . skip > .
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Saturday, September 20, 2014

Italy Crisis→Mario Draghi


Mario Draghi OMRI (born 3 September 1947) is an Italian economist, banker, academic, civil servant, and politician who has been serving as Prime Minister of Italy since 13 February 2021. He previously served as President of the European Central Bank from 2011 until 2019. Draghi was also Chair of the Financial Stability Board from 2009 to 2011 and Governor of the Bank of Italy from 2006 to 2011.

After a lengthy career as an academic economist in Italy, Draghi worked for the World Bank in Washington, D.C., throughout the 1980s, and in 1991 returned to Rome to become Director General of the Italian Treasury. He left that role after a decade to join Goldman Sachs, where he remained until his appointment as Governor of the Bank of Italy in 2006. His tenure as Governor coincided with the 2008 Great Recession, and in the midst of this he was selected to become the first Chair of the Financial Stability Board, the global standard-setter that replaced the Financial Stability Forum.

He left those roles after his nomination by the European Council in 2011 to serve as President of the European Central Bank. He presided over the institution during the Eurozone crisis, becoming famous throughout Europe for saying that he would be prepared to do "whatever it takes" to prevent the euro from failing. In 2014, Draghi was listed by Forbes magazine as the eighth-most powerful person in the world. In 2015, Fortune magazine ranked him as the world's "second greatest leader". In 2019, Paul Krugman described him as "the greatest central banker of modern times". Moreover, thanks to his monetary policies, he is widely considered the "savior of the euro" during the European debt crisis. He has been nicknamed Super Mario by some media, a nickname that was popularised during his time as President of the European Central Bank, when he was credited by numerous sources as having played a key role in combatting the Eurozone crisis.

After Draghi's term as ECB President ended in 2019, he initially returned to private life. On 3 February 2021, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Draghi was invited by Italian President Sergio Mattarella to form a government of national unity, following the resignation of Giuseppe Conte. After successful negotiations with parties including the League, the Five Star Movement, the Democratic Party and Forza Italia, Draghi was sworn in as Prime Minister on 13 February, pledging to oversee effective implementation of COVID-19 economic stimulus.
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