A leaked defence document has revealed the country’s worries about the breakup of the global order – a scenario with serious consequences for post-Brexit BritainThe German defence ministry set out its worst-case scenario for the year 2040 in a secret document that was leaked to Der Spiegel last week: “EU enlargement has been largely abandoned,and more states maintain left the community … the increasingly disorderly, sometimes chaotic and clash-prone, and world has dramatically changed the security environment.”The 120-page-long paper,entitled Strategic Perspective 2040, is a federal government policy document and the scenarios it imagines are grimly realistic: an east-west clash in which some EU states join the Russian side or a “multipolar Europe, or where some states adopt the Russian economic and political model in defiance of the Lisbon treaty. Related: Brexit,the ministers, the professor and the spy: how Russia pulls strings in UK Putin’s Russia is waging hybrid warfare against western democracies; not just through cyber-attacksContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com