{"id":323110,"date":"2026-02-14T07:02:46","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T07:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=323110"},"modified":"2026-02-16T08:34:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T08:34:45","slug":"munich-security-conference-and-the-u-s-elephant-in-the-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=323110","title":{"rendered":"Munich Security Conference and the U.S. elephant in the room"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Strategic Culture \u2013 Feb 13, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Cosmetic cover-up of Western elite corruption and crimes is no longer possible.<\/p>\n<p>The annual Munich Security Conference opens this weekend with the theme: \u201cUnder Destruction\u2026 The world has entered a period of wrecking-ball politics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The use of euphemism and blandishment is out in force this year as the Western elite gather in Bavaria.<\/p>\n<p>However, absurdly, the conference, as usual, shies away from calling out the main source of global threat\u2026 the United States of America.<\/p>\n<p>This is absurd but not surprising. Because the MSC has always been about rationalizing Western imperialist violence with the euphemistic spin of couching it as \u201csecurity challenges\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Munich gathering is the world\u2019s largest corporate conference on global security. It has been described variously as \u201cDavos with guns\u201d and \u201cthe Oscars for security policy experts\u201d. The forum began meeting in 1963 and is dominated by Western perspectives, closely aligned with Western governments, the NATO military alliance, and think tanks like the Washington-based Atlantic Council, the London-based Chatham House, the Gates Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and Soros\u2019 Open Society.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsors of the MSC event <a href=\"https:\/\/securityconference.org\/en\/about-us\/partners-sponsors\/\">include<\/a> Western weapons manufacturers, such as Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and Rheinmetall, as well as Wall Street and European banks, JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, and Commerzbank, and Big Tech like Microsoft and Palantir.<\/p>\n<p>It is thus a conclave of Western global elites who come together in Bavaria every year to work out policies and arrangements to expedite the domination of the planet by Western capital. One might well ask: \u201cSecurity for whom?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This year, the global elites are facing acute problems arising from two sources: the fallout from the Epstein transnational pedophile network that has implicated the entire Western ruling class in systematic corruption and sordid, horrific crimes of sex trafficking children for the heinous gratification of the elite.<\/p>\n<p>As with much of the Western establishment\u2019s response to the Epstein scandal, the order of the conference will be an attempt cover it up, if it is even mentioned.<\/p>\n<p>The second source of acute challenge is the descent into rampant imperialist violence by the United States. This is not merely a symptom of Donald Trump as the 47th president in the White House. The descent into barbarism has been underway for decades. It has only accelerated under Trump (a partying friend of Epstein) as the U.S. moves desperately to shore up its declining global hegemony. That desperation is motivated by the emergence of a more equitable multipolar world and the inherent failing of American-led Western capitalism. The existential struggle for preserving U.S. domination has resulted in an explosion of international violence and lawlessness, which also threatens the privileges of supposed American allies.<\/p>\n<p>A survey of barbarism under Trump over the past year includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bombing Iran and ongoing threats to annihilate the country<\/li>\n<li>Attacking Venezuela and kidnapping its president, Nicol\u00e1s Maduro<\/li>\n<li>Seizing oil tankers from Russia and China in international waters<\/li>\n<li>Blockading Cuba and shutting down vital public utilities<\/li>\n<li>Continuous bombing of Somalia; at least 30 times in 2026 alone<\/li>\n<li>Bombing Nigeria and dispatching U.S. troops there<\/li>\n<li>Threatening aggression against Canada, Greenland, Colombia, Mexico, and Panama<\/li>\n<li>Threatening illegal trade sanctions on numerous countries<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Needless to say, these are all criminal violations of the United Nations\u2019 Charter and international law. And yet Trump thinks he deserves a Nobel Peace Prize. The disconnect speaks of insanity. How perverse that this could all be a deliberate distraction from the association with child rapist and Mossad asset Epstein.<\/p>\n<p>But the truth is, the U.S. has always ordained itself the right to violate international law and use violence for regime change and wars of conquest. This has been going on for decades. The Western allies and media have pretended that this criminal imperialism did not exist and indulged in an illusion of \u201crules-based order\u201d, as the Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney candidly admitted last month at the Davos forum.<\/p>\n<p>What is new is that the lawlessness of U.S. imperialism has now become transparent and not camouflaged with pretexts about \u201cdefending democracy and the free world\u201d and other deceptions. What is new, too, is that Western allies are also being threatened in the American rush to shore up its failing global power.<\/p>\n<p>Laughably, the Munich forum this year is all about trying to delicately approach the subject without spelling it out.<\/p>\n<p>In the Foreword to the conference\u2019s introductory <a href=\"https:\/\/securityconference.org\/assets\/02_Dokumente\/01_Publikationen\/2026\/MSR2026\/Under_Destruction%E2%80%93Munich_Security_Report_2026.pdf\">report<\/a> this year, the chairman, Wolfgang Ischinger, writes:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Munich Security Conference 2026 is taking place at a moment\u00a0of profound uncertainty\u2026 a result of the changing role of the United States in the international system. For generations, U.S. allies were not just able to rely on American power but on a broadly shared understanding of the principles underpinning the international order. Today, this appears far less certain, raising difficult questions about the future shape of transatlantic and international cooperation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiven the significance of this recalibration of U.S. foreign policy, we decided that this year\u2019s Munich Security Report should address the elephant in the room head-on\u2026 the United States\u2019 evolving view of the international order.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the elephant in the room is exactly what the Munich conference is not doing by using euphemisms to cover up what is out-and-out U.S. imperialist violence.<\/p>\n<p>In the Executive Summary of the report, the MSC authors continue:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe world has entered a period of wrecking-ball politics.<\/p>\n<p>Sweeping destruction \u2013 rather than careful reforms and policy corrections \u2013 is the order of the day. The most prominent of those who promise to free their country from the existing order\u2019s constraints and rebuild a stronger, more prosperous nation is the current U.S. administration. As a result, more than 80 years after construction began, the U.S.-led post-1945 international order is now under destruction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Again, this is the sort of odious cover-up that one would expect from a forum that is sponsored by the Western capitalist elite.<\/p>\n<p>The only time that the Munich conference got a taste of the truth was 19 years ago when Russian leader Vladimir Putin delivered a still-memorable <a href=\"http:\/\/en.kremlin.ru\/events\/president\/transcripts\/24034\">speech<\/a> in 2007. Putin caused uproar among the Western elite and media when he condemned the unilateral use of \u201chyper military force\u201d by the United States and its lack of respect for international law, which he said was leading to chaos and destruction.<\/p>\n<p>Putin said in his 2007 address:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe see growing disregard for international law\u2019s basic principles. One state \u2013 the United States \u2013 has overstepped its national boundaries in every sphere.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd, of course, this is extremely dangerous. It results in the fact that no one feels safe. I want to emphasize this \u2013 no one feels safe! Because no one can feel that international law is like a stone wall that will protect them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nearly two decades later, Putin\u2019s condemnation has only grown ever more relevant to describe today\u2019s world of unbridled U.S. barbarism. \u201cThe vampire\u2019s ball is over,\u201d he added in a 2024 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.kremlin.ru\/events\/president\/news\/73648\">interview<\/a> with Dmitry Kiselev.<\/p>\n<p>A major part of the problem has been the impunity and vassalage that Western states have afforded the empire. As with the Epstein scandal and its evil, the West has indulged to the point where the system is out of control and is a threat to all.<\/p>\n<p>The Munich conference, like Davos, the G7, the Trilateral Commission, the Bilderberg Group, and other gatherings of the Western elite, is all about suppressing the truth so that there is no accountability for the crimes and sins of Western capitalism and its imperialist violence.<\/p>\n<p>But a day of reckoning is coming as the obscenities of Western power become increasingly exposed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/strategic-culture.su\/news\/2026\/02\/13\/munich-security-conference-and-us-elephant-in-room\/\">Source\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Addressing the elephant in the room is exactly what the Munich conference failed to do. However, Putin said it in his 2007 address: \u201cWe see growing disregard for international law\u2019s basic principles. One state \u2013 the United States \u2013 has overstepped its national boundaries in every sphere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-323110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=323110"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323113,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323110\/revisions\/323113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=323110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=323110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=323110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}