{"id":1470266,"date":"2024-06-09T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-09T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1470266"},"modified":"2024-06-09T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-09T15:00:00","slug":"next-months-nato-summit-might-see-most-members-joining-the-military-schengen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/next-months-nato-summit-might-see-most-members-joining-the-military-schengen\/1470266\/","title":{"rendered":"Next Month’s NATO Summit Might See Most Members Joining The “Military Schengen”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Next Month’s NATO Summit Might See Most Members Joining The “Military Schengen”<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

NATO logistics chief Lt. Gen. Alexander Sollfrank is responsible for last November\u2019s \u201cmilitary Schengen<\/a>\u201d proposal, which bore fruit in February after Germany, the Netherlands, and Poland \u2013 the last of which has\u00a0comprehensively subordinated<\/a>\u00a0itself to Berlin \u2013\u00a0agreed<\/a>\u00a0to optimize their military logistics.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is intended to streamline the dispatch of emergency American military forces to the Russian border via the Dutch port of Rotterdam and the next two countries\u2019 rail systems in the event of a major crisis.<\/p>\n

The Telegraph updated their audience about Sollfrank\u2019s brainchild on Tuesday a little more than a month before the next NATO Summit in DC from 9-11 July in their article detailing how \u201cNato land corridors could rush US troops to front line in event of European war<\/a>\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It included a handy map showing the five corridors that are being relied on to this end, with the most prominent being the abovementioned Dutch-German-Polish one.<\/p>\n

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In the order that they were enumerated by that outlet, the others include Italy-Slovenia-Croatia-Hungary; Greece-Bulgaria-Romania; Turkiye-Bulgaria-Romania; and Norway-Sweden-Finland. The first is presently unviable given Hungary\u2019s resistance to NATO\u2019s anti-Russian warmongering (unless Orban is neutralized); the next two require expanding Romania\u2019s \u201cMoldova Highway<\/a>\u201d project to the Aegean Sea; while the last one is dependent on just a few chokepoints. They\u2019re all therefore works in progress.<\/p>\n

Therein lies the reason why the upcoming NATO Summit might see most of the bloc agreeing to join the \u201cmilitary Schengen\u201d as its most important outcome in order to increase these corridors\u2019 efficacy. <\/strong>Removing red tape in order to facilitate the free movement of troops and equipment entails sacrificing more of each member\u2019s sovereignty, which Hungary and Slovakia probably won\u2019t agree to, but the rest\u2019s participation would set the basis for the US\u2019 envisaged \u201cFortress Europe<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n

This concept refers to the American-backed but German-driven militarization of the EU, which would see Berlin lead the bloc\u2019s anti-Russian containment on Washington\u2019s behalf after the Ukrainian Conflict inevitably ends in order for the US to \u201cPivot (back) to Asia\u201d for more muscularly containing China. \u201cFortress Europe\u201d is therefore a long-term project, not something that\u2019ll be completed anytime soon, especially since NATO also\u00a0needs to ramp up<\/a>\u00a0its military-industrial production to compete with Russia.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, the importance of optimizing military logistics across Europe can\u2019t be overestimated since increasing the efficacy of the five corridors that The Telegraph drew attention to will make it much easier for Germany to manage Russia\u2019s post-conflict containment under the US\u2019 supervision. <\/strong>Getting most members to agree to join the \u201cmilitary Schengen\u201d is also the easiest way for NATO to spin its next summit as success and placate some of Ukraine\u2019s disappointment at once again not being invited to join.<\/p>\n

Kiev can be told without any sugarcoating that the steps taken during that event will make it easier for those who\u2019ve extended it \u201csecurity guarantees<\/a>\u201d to fulfill their promises to immediately dispatch military aid during a crisis. This could also help reassure those hawkish anti-Russian policymakers who believe that any\u00a0pragmatic<\/a>\u00a0compromise<\/a>\u00a0on Ukraine would be to Moscow\u2019s advantage since NATO could pair its forthcoming military-industrial production sites with the \u201cmilitary Schengen\u201d during peacetime.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This can be done during the ongoing\u00a0NATO-Russian<\/a>\u00a0proxy war<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0Ukraine<\/a>, but the rate of the latter\u2019s force depletion prevents the bloc from replenishing its own stockpiles since it has to continue supplying Kiev, and that in turn reduces the confidence that EU leaders have in their ability to \u201cdeter\u201d Russia. <\/strong>Accordingly, freezing the conflict by year\u2019s end becomes more attractive if they come to see it in this way, which could then enable them to more effectively prioritize these plans over the coming years.<\/p>\n

In that event, new military-industrial sites could pop up along these five \u201cmilitary Schengen\u201d corridors as well as supplementary ones\u00a0like<\/a>\u00a0the German-Estonian corridor via Poland for fortifying the\u00a0new Iron Curtain<\/a>\u2019s \u201cBaltic Defense Line<\/a>\u201d, the purpose being to maximally militarize the EU.\u00a0Conscription might return<\/a>\u00a0across the bloc,\u00a0emergency training<\/a>\u00a0could be taught in all schools, and everyone would remain on edge like during the height of the Old Cold War, but this cold peace would still be\u00a0better than a hot war<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nSun, 06\/09\/2024 – 07:00<\/span><\/p>\n

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