BERLIN/MUNICH – One year after U.S. Vice President JD Vance attacked European allies at the Munich Security Conference, Washington’s partners will be seeking to chart a more independent course, while preserving the basis of the alliance.
Vance’s 2025 speech at the annual gathering of top security officials triggered a year of unprecedented transatlantic confrontation, with the United States seemingly set on dismantling much of the international order it helped to build. This year’s meeting, which begins on Friday, also comes against a backdrop of multiple conflicts, including war in Ukraine, ?Gaza and Sudan.
“I cannot remember a time when we had more simultaneous wars, crises, and conflicts of that dimension,” Wolfgang Ischinger, the former German diplomat who heads the ?forum, told a ?gathering earlier this week.
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