
Vir: Visual Capitalist.
Države članice EU so se zavezale skupni zunanji in varnostni politiki EU z namenom krepitve civilnih in vojaških zmogljivosti EU za preprečevanje konfliktov in krizno upravljanje.
Skupna varnostna in obrambna politika je sestavni del skupne zunanje in varnostne politike. Evropski uniji zagotavlja operativno sposobnost, oprto na civilna in vojaška sredstva, ki jih EU lahko uporablja pri misijah zunaj svojih meja za ohranjanje miru, preprečevanje konfliktov in krepitev mednarodne varnosti v skladu z načeli Ustanovne listine OZN. Za izvajanje teh misij se uporabijo zmogljivosti, ki jih zagotovijo države članice (člen 42.1 PEU).
“… stop what we have been doing for the last 14 years. It has not worked. There is nothing at all to suggest it ever will work. Whack-a-mole is a game, not a plan. Leave the Middle East alone. Stop creating more failed states. Stop throwing away our freedoms at home on falsehoods. Stop disenfranchising the Muslims who live with us. Understand the war, such as it is, is against a set of ideas — religious, anti-western, anti-imperialist — and you cannot bomb an idea. Putting western soldiers on the ground in the MidEast and western planes overhead fans the flames. Vengeance does not and cannot extinguish an idea.”
Ghosts of Tom Joad, 14. november 2015)
, nekdanji uslužbenec U. S. Foreign Service (Terrorists make headlines by destroying ancient sites like Palmyra, in Syria. But there’s an even more sinister endgame, as archaeologist Sarah Parcak explains. You’ve probably heard of blood diamonds and blood ivory. But what about blood antiquities? More here.
Source: ideas.ted.com