Is Europe doomed without the US?

Welcome to the second episode of Mildly Alarmed, a new weekly podcast about European and global security hosted by Anastasiia Lapatina, Fabian Hoffman, Minna Ålander, and Karen-Anna Eggen. To set up the show, we are dedicating the first three episodes to recent trends in Ukraine, Europe, and global security. Episode two dives into the state of European security and defense. How is Europe navigating an aggressive Russia, a less reliable US, and a surge in defence spending? We discuss whether things are really as gloomy for the continent as they are sometimes portrayed—and experience a power outage, though probably not from where you’d expect.If you want to support our show, go to our Buy Me A Coffee page at http://buymeacoffee.com/mildlyalarmed Email us at [email protected] with any guest feedback, suggestions, and questions.  Mentioned in the show:“One belt, one Donbas: China is gaining a foothold in Russian-occupied Ukraine” from The Insider: ⁠https://shorturl.at/HvyPa⁠ “US withdrawing 5,000 troops from Germany, US officials” say from Military Times:  ⁠https://shorturl.at/Y2ELS⁠ “Lithuania Says It Broke Up Russian Sabotage and Murder Plots” from the New York Times: ⁠https://shorturl.at/IKR7c⁠ “Explainer: Is Zelensky implicated in Ukraine's largest corruption scandal, and what do the new tapes reveal?” from the Kyiv Independent: ⁠https://shorturl.at/TWZm7⁠ Credits: Anastasiia Lapatina is Ukraine Fellow at Lawfare. She writes a weekly newsletter about Ukraine called Yours Ukrainian. She is based in Kyiv. Karen-Anna Eggen is a Senior Researcher and the Head of the Programme for Ukraine and Full-Spectrum Threats at the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies. She is based in Oslo.Fabian Hoffman is a Senior Research Fellow at the Programme for Ukraine and Full-Spectrum Threats at the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies. He is the author of the Missile Matters newsletter about defence, missile technology, and nuclear strategy. He is based in Oslo.Minna Ålander is an analyst at the Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs. She’s also an Associate Fellow at Chatham House and a Non-Resident Fellow at CEPA. Minna also writes a newsletter about European security called Northern Flank Notes. She is based in Stockholm.The podcast is engineered by Anthony Bartaway, who is also the co-host of a podcast called Ukraine Without Hype: / @ukrainewithouthype