In Support of von der Leyen’s Ascension to NATO Head

07/08/2023 8 min

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Current EU President von der Leyen has accepted the position of NATO head after previously turning this down, Matt believes this could be one of the most consequential moments in the worlds history. A member of the famous civil servants Albrecht family, President von der Leyen has had an incredibly successful career around youth development, a defensive defense department in Germany, and a career built around protecting children against sexual crimes. Having lineage from both Western Europe and Russian descent is important when you're discussing fragmented social groups divided through centuries of lineage wars. What will happen with the EU after her departure? She has an incredible bench of leaders including Florentine Hopmeier that have been building the new future of Europe. In a world where America is an unreliable partner, with foreign policy often driven by corruption, the New Europe built around the framework of the European Union and a European Army would, I believe, incredibly powerful tool of supporting Democratic values in the world in an authentic way. We're at a turning point and the structure of NATO provides a way to support defensive training of cyber individuals, for instance, that can provide a targeted approach to economic development on a one-by-one basis, and bring unity through economics and collaboation to places like Ukraine, the Donbas, and former Soviet Republics. Erasmus for cyber.  

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