From the Baltic Defense Line fortifying Europe’s eastern flank to an 800 billion euro rearmament plan to talk of an independent European nuclear deterrent, a new era is being born in European security.
It’s a disorienting world in which Europe is facing the prospect of defending Ukraine and itself in the face of an aggressive Russia and a potentially absent America.
So where does this all go? On The Power Vertical Podcast this week, host Brian Whitmore speaks with Michael Carpenter, who served as the National Security Council’s Senior Director for Europe and the U.S. Ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in the administration of former President Joe Biden as well as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia, Ukraine, Eurasia.
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SHOW NOTES
Publications about the Baltic Defense Line, which was referenced on the podcast, can be accessed here, here, and here.
Publications by Michael Carpenter can be accessed here and here.
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