{"id":27683,"date":"2017-11-07T06:38:42","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T11:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27683"},"modified":"2017-11-07T06:38:42","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T11:38:42","slug":"german-army-prepares-for-break-up-of-european-union-or-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27683","title":{"rendered":"German Army Prepares For &#8220;Break-Up Of European Union&#8221; Or Worse&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-11-06\/german-army-prepares-break-european-union-or-worse\">German Army Prepares For &#8220;Break-Up Of European Union&#8221; Or Worse&#8230;<\/a><\/h3>\n<section class=\"node node-type-story node-full node-nid-606755\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>The <strong>German military<\/strong> is preparing for a number of scenarios over the next two decades ranging from<strong><em> &#8220;the disintegration of the EU&#8221;<\/em><\/strong> to <strong><em>&#8220;multipolar competition&#8221;<\/em><\/strong> and the unraveling of Western order.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2017\/11\/04\/20171106_german.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2017\/11\/04\/20171106_german_0.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"288\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to an internal\u00a0report\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/politik\/deutschland\/bundeswehr-studie-haelt-zerfall-der-europaeischen-union-fuer-denkbar-a-1176367.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">seen by Der Spiegel<\/a>, the<em><strong> 102-page \u201cStrategic Perspective 2040\u201d report <\/strong><\/em>&#8211; adopted in late February and kept under wraps since then &#8211; <strong>outlines six scenarios for how social trends and international conflicts are likely to play out and influence German security<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2017\/11\/04\/20171106_german1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2017\/11\/04\/20171106_german1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>In one of the six scenarios <strong><em>(&#8220;The EU in Disintegration and Germany in Reactive Mode&#8221;)<\/em><\/strong>, the authors assume a &#8220;multiple confrontation&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The future projection describes a world in which the <strong>international order erodes after &#8220;decades of instability&#8221;, the value systems worldwide diverge and globalization is stopped.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The <strong>EU enlargement has been largely abandoned, <\/strong>other states have left the community Europe has lost its global competitiveness,&#8221; write the Bundeswehr strategists:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The<strong> increasingly disorderly, sometimes chaotic and conflict-prone world has dramatically changed the security environment of Germany and Europe<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the <strong>fifth scenario (&#8220;West to the East&#8221;), <\/strong>some eastern EU countries are freezing the state of European integration while others have &#8220;joined the Eastern bloc&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In the<strong> fourth scenario (&#8220;multipolar competition&#8221;)<\/strong>, extremism is on the rise and there are EU partners who &#8220;even occasionally seem to seek a specific approach to Russia&#8217;s&#8221; state capitalist model &#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>The document expressly makes no prognosis, but all scenarios are <strong><em>&#8220;plausible with the 2040 time horizon,&#8221;<\/em><\/strong> write the authors.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"node-links\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German Army Prepares For &#8220;Break-Up Of European Union&#8221; Or Worse&#8230; The German military is preparing for a number of scenarios over the next two decades ranging from &#8220;the disintegration of the EU&#8221; to &#8220;multipolar competition&#8221; and the unraveling of Western order. 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