{"title": "Europe Squeezed | Henri Vanhanen | Neuvottelija 415", "titleOriginal": "Eurooppa ahtaalla | Henri Vanhanen | Neuvottelija 415", "episodeNumber": "415", "guest": "Henri Vanhanen", "publishedAt": "2026-10-17", "duration": "1:00:24", "durationIso": "PT1H0M24S", "youtube": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHjTL40QcDc", "fiCanonical": "https://www.neuvottelija.fi/fi/episodes/862-eurooppa-ahtaalla-henri-vanhanen-neuvottelija-415/", "originalLanguage": "fi", "format": "full", "topics": ["geopolitics", "ai_enterprise_tech"], "description": "Foreign-policy analyst Henri Vanhanen and Sami Miettinen take a global tour from the US midterms to Russia, Ukraine, China and the struggle for power over artificial intelligence. In Vanhanen's view, Europe's tragedy is that it outsourced its energy to the Russians, its weapons to the Americans and its technology to the Chinese, and is now waking up to a world where the game has in many places already been played. The episode asks why the Iran operation was a strategic mistake for the United States, what Ukraine's drone revolution teaches Finland and how Russia is building up near the Finnish border. On AI, it asks whether Europe has anything to say at the regulation table if the best models end up in an alliance of states and tech giants. Finally the conversation turns to Finland's future, the transformation of work, taxation and who in Finland actually owns the future.", "chapters": [{"t": "00:00", "title": "Opening highlights on Iran, Europe and AI", "seconds": 0}, {"t": "01:08", "title": "Henri Vanhanen introduces himself: Atlantic Council, Nest AI, ESF", "seconds": 68}, {"t": "03:02", "title": "Dual-use technology and the end of the peace dividend", "seconds": 182}, {"t": "05:53", "title": "Europe's outsourced energy, weapons and technology", "seconds": 353}, {"t": "07:03", "title": "Trump as the wake-up call, and the Strait of Hormuz mistake", "seconds": 423}, {"t": "08:00", "title": "Ten years of Trump and a changing America", "seconds": 480}, {"t": "09:45", "title": "The Iran operation and the role of Israeli intelligence", "seconds": 585}, {"t": "10:45", "title": "The left's long march and Russian influence", "seconds": 645}, {"t": "13:01", "title": "The Trump administration's Russia line and support for Ukraine", "seconds": 781}, {"t": "14:08", "title": "Venezuela and America's own backyard", "seconds": 848}, {"t": "14:54", "title": "The Hormuz closure hits Asia and the midterms", "seconds": 894}, {"t": "16:41", "title": "The war in Ukraine as an echo of the Spanish Civil War", "seconds": 1001}, {"t": "18:00", "title": "China's long-term self-sufficiency strategy", "seconds": 1080}, {"t": "18:35", "title": "Ukraine's drones and Russia's cold winter", "seconds": 1115}, {"t": "20:06", "title": "Mass production decides, and the Finnish Defence Forces", "seconds": 1206}, {"t": "21:59", "title": "Drone obsolescence and scalable production capacity", "seconds": 1319}, {"t": "23:08", "title": "Nokia, security of supply and domestic production", "seconds": 1388}, {"t": "24:35", "title": "Growth of the defence budget and the funding question", "seconds": 1475}, {"t": "25:07", "title": "Changing deterrence and Russia's new garrisons", "seconds": 1507}, {"t": "28:10", "title": "China's AI strategy rests on energy", "seconds": 1690}, {"t": "29:30", "title": "Stubb's AI agreement and the limits of regulation", "seconds": 1770}, {"t": "31:28", "title": "The nuclear-weapons comparison and the rapid rise of superintelligence", "seconds": 1888}, {"t": "33:52", "title": "Chips, rare earths and Taiwan's fate", "seconds": 2032}, {"t": "37:17", "title": "Techno-fascism and Europe's access to the best models", "seconds": 2237}, {"t": "38:36", "title": "China's open models, Poro and Mistral", "seconds": 2316}, {"t": "39:49", "title": "Google's data centres and the electricity debate in Finland", "seconds": 2389}, {"t": "41:38", "title": "Ireland's lesson on data centres", "seconds": 2498}, {"t": "43:14", "title": "Tech giants as states, and corporate diplomacy", "seconds": 2594}, {"t": "45:13", "title": "Anti-business sentiment and the missing vision of the future", "seconds": 2713}, {"t": "49:03", "title": "Corporatism, AI and the transformation of work", "seconds": 2943}, {"t": "51:05", "title": "Still no Finnish-language local AI model", "seconds": 3065}, {"t": "52:13", "title": "The last human-labour election and taxing AI", "seconds": 3133}, {"t": "53:59", "title": "The public sector's AI leap and savings", "seconds": 3239}, {"t": "54:32", "title": "The euro, France and the fate of the debts", "seconds": 3272}, {"t": "55:39", "title": "Geopolitics shows up in the Finnish household's wallet", "seconds": 3339}, {"t": "57:20", "title": "India and the Global South as wild cards", "seconds": 3440}, {"t": "59:23", "title": "Wrap-up and topics for the Insider episode", "seconds": 3563}], "sourceTranscriptType": "macwhisper_sbv", "subtitleMethod": "none", "provenance": "Owner page assembled from YouTube metadata, the neuvottelija.fi episode record and the publisher's own chapter marks, translated one for one. 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