Reinier von Lanschot: Europe Has Reached a Breaking Point. The Race to Build a European Army Has Begun.

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The episode discusses the initiative for a European Defence Union led by Reinier Von Lanschot and its implications for Europe and global security.

➡️ Watch the full interview ad-free, join a community of geopolitics enthusiasts and gain access to exclusive content on PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/DecodingGeopolitics ➡️ Sign up to my free geopolitics newsletter: https://stationzero.substack.com/ This is a conversation with Reinier Von Lanschot - a Dutch member of the European Parliament - who is a leading figure of a new recent and potentially groundbreaking initiative. He has helped to form a group of European parliament members who are all calling and lobbying for one thing - creation a European Defence Union - basically, the European version of NATO, without the United States. Built so that Europe can fight and defend itself on its own - in the case that the U.S. would not come to its aid when necessary. This is something that many experts have theorized and called for before, but this is the first time someone in Europe is really trying to turn it into reality - which is why it’s both a fascinating and exciting but also extremely complicated and difficult endeavor - but if they succeed, it would have immense consequences, for Europe and for the world. And so we talk about what a European Defence Union is and how they…

People in this episode

Host: Dominik Presl

Guest: Reinier Von Lanschot

Topics covered

• European Defence Union
• geopolitics
• military strategy
• European Parliament
• NATO alternatives

Keywords

• European Defence Union
• Reinier Von Lanschot
• geopolitics
• military
• NATO
• European Parliament
• defense

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: European Parliament, NATO, PATREON, Substack

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