Once again, Joaquín from Denmark has given the mark trying to demonstrate that he is not the eternal second-stringer, as the press in his country nicknamed him. And although members of the royal houses must always stay out of politics, he has emerged as an international analyst: “We thought the world was rosy and we ignored the alarm signals. We only woke up when the Russians invaded Ukraine. "The West has taken so long to recognize the new reality that we are being left behind and out of time." King Frederick's brother made these statements in the speech he gave at the Copenhagen headquarters of Aalborg University on the occasion of the first anniversary of the National Defense Technology Centre.
“On February 24, 2022 we rubbed our eyes and woke up to a new reality,” he began by saying: “But that reality was already there and Ukrainians had suffered from it for 8 years. Now we are paying negative interest rates for falling asleep when we shouldn't have.” “The alarm bells went off as early as 2008, when Russia occupied large areas of Georgia following the conflict over the separatist region of South Ossetia,” he continued. “Since 1990, the West had been seeing the world in pink, although it was not so, and it continued to see it that way until, at least, 2014, when the Russian annexation of the Crimean peninsula took place and we began to realize that the “The world we believed existed was not such.”
“If Prince Joachim wants to have strong opinions on Danish defense, and Frederick on the environment, there is no doubt that at some point they will face harsh political criticism,” said political analyst Hans Engell.
Queen Margaret's second son never settled for the role of brother to the future king, first, and neither now, after his mother has abdicated in favor of Frederick, and he is the fifth heir to the throne, behind his nephews Christian , Isabel, Vicente and Josefina. Since 2020 he has preferred to live outside his country and distance himself from the royal family. The rift increased after Queen Margaret withdrew the title of prince from her four children: Nicholas and Felix, from her marriage to Alexandra Manley, and Henry and Athena, from her current wife, Marie Cavallier.
Since September he has lived with his family in Washington, where he works as a military attaché at the Danish embassy, and previously held the same position in Paris.
Joaquín has extensive military experience. On the occasion of his transfer to Washington he was promoted to brigade. He has served in the Royal Guard, has been commander of a tank squadron, has completed high-ranking officer studies at the prestigious École Militaire in Paris and has collaborated in the development and implementation of a new defense concept for reserve units. Danish.
Joaquin has not been the only one; Last week William of Wales also raised his voice to call for an end to the conflict in Gaza: “Too many people have died, and I, like so many others, want the fighting to end as soon as possible. There is a desperate need to increase humanitarian aid to Gaza. “It is essential that help arrives and the hostages are released.”
