The only thing i can think of is "Hello, i am a military partnership and my name is JEF"

To put this into context. This is a British Project. The purpose of this project is to prepare Britain and the countries it would be helping to defend for a European War. The countries involved are the ones that would participate on the Baltic Axis and the North Atlantic Axis. These are the directions of British contributions. The UK wants to cooperate with and acclimatize to all allies and potential allies in these directions. Hence Sweden and Finland joining in 2017. What Britain gets out of this is good military relations with many smaller countries that it would have to deploy to in times of war. Experience cooperating with those countries. Influence over defence decisions so that collaboration is as easy as possible; e.g. equipment purchases, organizational structure, availability ot tea kettles in all vehicles, stuff like that. This also makes it easier for Britain to integrate units from these countries into it's own forces. e.g. Frigates as Carrier escorts, squadrons as part of RAF wings, battalions as part of British led brigades etc. If say, Sweden, wished to participate in a futue Iraq War style conflict they could simply send a battallion as part of a british brigade with no special need for training and integration, that work already having been done. This increases British infuence in general. What the other participants get out of it. The Netherlands gets to contribute as if it were Britain writ small. The other members are ones that would need NATO, specifically British and Dutch resources to help defend themselves. With all of this being prepared and practiced small countries like Estonia or Latvia are free to make consequential decisions like to not have an air force or corvettes since allies they already are integrated with provide those services. This is uniquely valuable to a small country that couldn't afford more than one ship leaving it at risk of having the ship in repair dock when it was needed at sea; same for expensive aircraft and the even more expensive pilots. This is also a good framework for the Iceland Defence Force since all of the common contributing members (UK, Netherlands, Denmark and Norway) are in this partnership. This also enables Iceland, which doesn't have a military, to contribute since every military deployment needs medical and logistical services Iceland can provide.

Great to see a group of likeminded countries who care about Northern European security, respect to Lithuania and all our other allies in the North from Britain 🇬🇧

Britain and our northern European bros 🤜

Pragmatic, responsive & reliable. More power to JEF.

This is the right direction in military cooperation and security for the Baltics . Truly a northern European matter . And very important aspect that it includes a country with nuclear weapons- Great Britain .

10 of the best countries in the world 😍

If I see some Northern Europe collaboration Lithuania is in, I love it.

Great organisation. I am surprized never heard of one before. I am from LithuaniaI wish all the success for JEFF!

You should get paid by the Lithuanian military for all the good publicity you're doing. Seriously, good job. Non-Lithuanian speakers have excellent source of information on Lithuanian military in English.

Great video, I'm always learning something new from your channel!

Pretty cool. Didn't know about this.

If Trump does as he threatens? If Hungary and others become more aligned with Russia in the future? Then alliances like this make sense.

All of these countries rely one way or another on naval access, Poland mainly trades with Germany (27%) and Germany mainly trades with China. So Poland can relax and focus on Not-Jeff things, while Germany can rely on the Dutch for primary Naval export/Import.

This Jeff sounds like a great guy.

Thank you 👍 Greetings to 🇱🇹 from 🇸🇪

"Thanks again for watching" Well, thanks again for sharing interesting things!

This partnership is BY FAR much better then NATO .... simply because you have less weak 'politicians' whom might send you help in words instead of force (see Ukraine) .

"I can't believe it's not NATO"

Hello! Again a nice video uploaded 😃 Sending love and luck to everyone , especially to my baltic friends!

❤ Loving this topic. It’s completely new to me and very interesting how you presented it. Thank you!

All the alliances. They're all good.

Greetings from Sweden 🇸🇪💕 🇱🇹

I never heard about JEF. I find it amazing, I like it much more than NATO

Glad to see it’s an international institution not dominated by the US. Europe needs to me more independent from US influence and be ready to defend ourselves

The Dutch have had intensive trade relations with the Scandinavian countries (Northern Germany) and the Baltic states since about 1300 (the Hanze). So they feel very close to them.

Well done!

My name is Jef

We're getting there. I'm french but i find this covenant extraordinary. It has to expand in commerce and other side of living. JEF is the answer.

Not me thinking this was Jeff, the non-state entey with "

Another advantage would be not just the immediate support butvthe potential to grow support. Article 5 of natos charter says that their will be a disscusion. No guarantee of action. JEF invokes an imediate response which then means a block of nato countries are involved. That could force the nato discussion to action or at least speed up the process.

This formed about the Baltic because of the countries that were previously left out of NATO.

This is like the Nordic union defense. Great stuff. :)

Good stuff! Goooo Lithuania! We in New Zealand have had some good basketball games against you with our "Tall Blacks"!

JEF looks like Knud d. Store's North Sea Empire. Just think of it like that ;-)

Purely a guess but being so new and in flux, it seems Poland would likely join soon…

I definitely think we need a northern alliance in Europe, as a complement to NATO, as I think that unfortunately a lot of NATO countries especially in the south of Europe are just free-riding and not pulling their weight. They would not really be reliable allies if the worst comes to the worst, just look at the lack of help they give Ukraine, while most northern and Eastern European countries are carrying the weight of supporting Ukraine.

What is remarkable is that the Dutch land army is actually under German command. Or it is very integrated into the German army units. So why isn't Germany a member? On the other hand, the Belgian navy is integrated into the Dutch navy. The Belgian and Dutch naval personnel are taught at the same naval school and wear the same naval uniforms. Many Belgian naval ships are also moored in the Dutch naval port of Den Helder. The Dutch also work intensively with the Belgian air force, so the Belgians could well have participated.

I feel reassured that JEF is active.

Now we need a video about the NB8

Hey what a cute little alliance! What's your name? My name is Jef

It’s a good way for the Baltic based nations to act in the high North as a group, this is like Desert combat highly specialised and would not suit the NATO remit which was designed primarily for defence of the European plan from the East which large divisions. Encroachment into the High North is a requires great logistical knowledge in hostile environments allowing the Nordic and Baltic nations to monitor and control their neighbourhood and when needed bringing in Dutch and U.K. forces to fill in equipment and manpower gaps as needed. I’m just a little surprised Canadians are part of this along with the Nordic Nations it’s the only other nation with the knowledge and equipment to operate in the high North. It would probably have a better impact than British forces should anything happen on a large scale.

Why Germany, Belgium, and Poland aren't members doesn't make sense to me.

it is weird that germany isn´t in JEF but the netherlands is the dutch army is integrated into the german structure

News to me an very interesting. Thanks

How is an engagement of/on the JEF not going to trigger article 5 of NATO/OTAN? Still think is it a good idea that this is active.

JEF is an alliance of naval forces. Germany and Poland have more land based armies. JEF understands naval warfare the best. Vikings, Homefleet and VOC maritime experience all in 1 :)

Canada is north too!

Talking of JEF and you mentioned France and Germany not being in it. The U.K. and France are in another partnership, CJEF, Combined Joint Expeditionary Forces, founded in 2010.

An organisation called 'Jef' led by us that I didn't know about??? How?

Iceland as a JEF member is strange they have no army, no airforce, no navy just a few coast guard ships

Alliance with Baltic States and without Poland is just ... strange.

The actual based alliance

JEF seems like it's good for smaller responses where deployment speed is the main concern. It's not capable of taking on nation states engaged in direct warfare, but should be better suited than NATO at countering small terrorism and sabotage.

The Netherlands and UK have similar Navy vessels.

They should give the alliance a cool name like The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, but that's a long name so many just a shorter version

I love this❤. Its a tiny taste of my wet dream of Super Scandinavia. So my answer to your tiny rent at 1:28 is that its a gather of one family binded by blood,history,culture and language. Examples of what I am talking about you can read about the Danlaw,Swedish Empier and what the name of Estonias capital means and its coat of arms. Yes a lot gose back to the viking age and Germanic history. Its actually a bit funny now that I think about it becaus Lithuania has the "weakest family" link as I can only think of there was a princess(i cant remember name and date) that was going to merry a Swedish king to becom part of Sweden but it never happend. Then there was the Teutonic Order messing around there and the fact that they are blood brother to Latvia. And that Lithuania is part of Nordic-Baltic Eight and a observer state in the Nordic Council. You know what after listing and remembering that I withdraw the "weakest family" link statemant. You should do a video about this family links or if you have already done point me in the direction. There are other family members missing in JEF but all in due time😊. Also I cant stop thinking of the meme "My name is JEFF"😂😂😂😂 Great video🎉

Sounds suspiciously like the WEU. 😊😊😊

I think it is a natural response to Hungary and Turkey trying to paralyze NATO while Trump seems luke warm about the NATO project overall.

NATO is politics, JEF is not. NATO is a lot about financial stakes, JEF is not. Both have military capabilities. This coalition which has the closest cultural similarities amongst it's members, compared to any other options. There can really not be added any more countries into JEF.

Viking stuff

G.A.R.Y. ! 🙃

Wonder why isn't Poland in

More likely NORDIC COUNTRIES 😹😹😹

Hello my name Jef

Does Iceland have a miltary 🤷

I wish Boris Johnson and others in the Anglosphere would learn that Iceland and Finland aren't Scandinavian. They're Nordic.

[1] Resultant from the Biden administration's inability to timely overcome foundational political, congressional equivocation, Republican opposition/obstruction together with its failure to both obtain and maintain seamless anti-Russian political support among the leadership of all NATO countries, further underscored by its failure to timely deliver even the minimum requisite military support required to prevent a regression of Ukrainian military advances on the ground, Russia with Belarus, have developed and are currently refining plans for an attack upon Lithuania and Poland in 2025. [2] Inability, and/or unwillingness of NATO to both timely fabricate and deliver such defensive weaponry in the context of Ukraine, constitutes a significant artifact of Western military weakness. Within the territory of Belarus now resides nuclear weapons obtained from Russia, a significant deterrent against NATO military action against Belarus. [3] The aforementioned information comes from multiple senior Belarussian military personnel directly involved in the planning phase. Justification for the invasion is establishment of a land path to Kaliningrad during a time of perceived Western weakness and equivocation, devolution of the situation in Ukraine constituting exhibit one, reelection of Trump being exhibit two, with reelection of Biden, an alternative exhibit two, continued Republican control of the House, exhibit three, and Republican's gaining control of the Senate, exhibit four. /s/ M.P.

The British would refer to it as "Geoffrey"

My name is Jeeeff. The meme 😂

Grab Poland in there and you have a great force

Lithuania? Never heard of it. Is it in South America?

Hmm...except for the Netherlands all the countries have a shared heritage from the Norse. It's a stretch, but that is the only unifying thing I can think of... All countries also have a maritime heritage.

Jeff is a short version of Jeffrey (OK, one f is missing but who cares). And that's what I found: "Jeffrey has roots in German, meaning "pledge of peace". Cool coincidence!

did you forget the EU

Tiny numbers! Europe needs to wake up and take defence seriously. The UK has a population of nearly 70 million yet an Army of just over 70 thousand, smaller than it was at the time of Waterloo in 1815 when the population was about 7 million!

Basically the uk is the backbone and is 90 percent of this coalition

Dey are allies of Wussia

🇬🇧 🇱🇹🫡

Yea the composition doesn't make much sense to me either. I'd prefer a baltic coalition with simply all nations that touch the baltic sea (except Russia ofc). That would make infinitely more sense.

Mynamejef

The guy said "scandinavian countries" and named north europian countries... that geography is shit

When you say '...a certain hostile nation...' and talk about them attacking critical infrastructure did you really mean the US blowing up the Nord Stream pipeline?

My name is Jeff

5:25 stronk independent boss babes.. im sure russia is shivering seeing all these female soldiers.... :D

My name is Jef