Europe’s Enemies Are Trying to BREAK it From the Inside - here's how

Europe looks strong on paper—big economies, high-tech industry, NATO expanding after Finland and Sweden joined. But zoom in and you’ll find the weak spots that actually decide crises: narrow chokepoints, fragile subsea cables, a shallow Baltic Sea crowded with pipelines and a “shadow fleet” of risky tankers, plus a political system where a single veto can jam the entire EU. This video maps those vulnerabilities—and shows what it would take to harden them.

We start in the North Atlantic at the GIUK Gap (Greenland–Iceland–UK), the gateway from the Arctic to the Atlantic. Control here shapes how fast NATO can reinforce Europe and how safe our transatlantic lifelines and internet cables really are. From there we head into the Arctic chessboard: Russia’s Kola Peninsula, China’s “Polar Silk Road,” and Svalbard, where unusual treaty rules give Moscow room for pressure without troops.

Then it’s the Baltic theatre. The Suwałki Gap—the 65 km neck between Poland and Lithuania—keeps the Baltics connected to the rest of NATO. Gotland sits like an unsinkable airbase in the middle of the sea. We look at GNSS jamming, suspected sabotage, anchor-dragging incidents, and why the Baltic’s “shadow oil fleet” could create an environmental and infrastructure disaster unlike anything the region has seen.

And we step far outside Europe to French Guiana—home of the Guiana Space Centre. It’s “Europe’s Spaceport,” thousands of kilometers from Paris, vital for Ariane 6 launches—and a reminder that distance itself can be a vulnerability.

Finally, we unpack the political weak spots: EU unanimity rules that let one leader hold up policy, influence operations that mix money, media, and messaging (from Russia, China, and U.S. networks), and what it would take to make Europe’s open societies harder to bend. The goal isn’t doom—it’s a realistic map for resilience.

What we'll discuss:

Why the GIUK Gap and Suwałki Gap still matter in 2025
How Svalbard and Gotland shape the Nordic–Baltic balance
The risks from the Baltic shadow fleet, anchor-dragging, and subsea infrastructure damage
How GNSS jamming, cyber, arson, and lawfare fit into hybrid warfare
Why Europe’s best launch site is in French Guiana—and why that’s a risk
How EU vetoes, outside money, and information ops can stall strategy
Practical fixes: sensors, stockpiles, European air defence, subsea surveillance, and cleaner politics

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00:00 Introduction
00:42 GIUK Gap & Atlantic cables
01:54 Arctic, Kola & Svalbard
03:02 Baltic: Suwałki Gap & infrastructure
03:57 Gotland’s role in Baltic defence
04:21 Shadow fleet & ecological risk
05:14 French Guiana: Europe’s spaceport
06:04 European issues, veto power & influence
06:36 Russia's Influence Operations
08:30 China's Pressure
09:22 US Influence - CPAC & Far Right
10:18 How Brittle is Europe?