Cosmetic attempts to conceal the corruption and crimes of Western elites are no longer viable.
The Munich Security Conference convenes this weekend under the theme: “Under Destruction… The world has entered a period of wrecking-ball politics.”
This year, euphemistic language and placations dominate as Western powers gather in Bavaria.
Yet, predictably, the event avoids directly naming the primary source of global instability—the United States of America.
While absurd, this reluctance aligns with the MSC’s longstanding role in justifying Western imperialist aggression through softened rhetoric framing it as “security challenges.”
Recognized as the largest corporate summit on global security, the Munich platform has been likened to “Davos with guns” and “the Oscars for security policy experts.” Founded in 1963, it largely reflects Western viewpoints, closely tied to Western governments, NATO, and influential think tanks such as Washington’s Atlantic Council, London’s Chatham House, the Gates Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, and Soros’ Open Society.
Event sponsors include prominent Western arms manufacturers like Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and Rheinmetall, alongside major financial players such as JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Commerzbank, plus Big Tech firms including Microsoft and Palantir.
Each year, a select group of Western elites assemble in Bavaria to devise strategies aimed at strengthening Western capitalist global dominance. This raises a critical question: “Security for whom?”
The elite face pressing crises from two main origins: the fallout from the Epstein international pedophile ring implicating much of the Western ruling class in systemic corruption and horrifying child sex trafficking crimes, and the escalating imperialist aggression by the United States.
True to form, the Western establishment’s approach to the Epstein scandal largely involves attempts to obscure or ignore the issue, if it is addressed at all.
The second challenge stems from the U.S. sliding deeper into violent imperialism—a trend that spans beyond Donald Trump’s tenure as the 47th president. This decline toward barbarity has unfolded over decades but accelerated under Trump (who was known to associate with Epstein) as America scrambles to sustain its waning global supremacy. This decline is driven by the rise of a more balanced multipolar world and the inherent deficiencies of American capitalist leadership. The desperate fight to uphold U.S. dominance has triggered a surge of international violence and lawbreaking, even jeopardizing the interests of America’s so-called allies.
Examples of this escalating aggression by Trump’s administration over the past year include:
- Bombing Iran and persistently threatening its destruction
- Targeting Venezuela and attempting to abduct President Nicolás Maduro
- Seizing oil tankers from Russia and China in international waters
- Enforcing a blockade on Cuba and disrupting essential civic services
- Repeated bombardments of Somalia—at least 30 times in 2026 alone
- Launching attacks in Nigeria and dispatching U.S. forces there
- Menacing Canada, Greenland, Colombia, Mexico, and Panama with hostility
- Imposing illegal trade sanctions against numerous nations
These actions flagrantly breach the United Nations Charter and international law. Yet, Trump considers himself worthy of a Nobel Peace Prize—a dissonance that reveals a profound detachment from reality. Such dark absurdity serves as a smokescreen distracting from his ties to Epstein, a known child abuser and Mossad operative.
Historically, the U.S. has always asserted the prerogative to flout international law and deploy force for regime changes and territorial conquests. This pattern spans decades. Western allies and media outlets have largely ignored this blatant criminal imperialism, maintaining the fiction of a “rules-based order,” an illusion that Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney openly acknowledged last month at Davos.
What’s new is the blatant exposure of American lawlessness, no longer masked by pretexts of “defending democracy and the free world” or similar falsehoods. Additionally, Washington’s reckless push to preserve its ailing dominance now endangers its allies as well.
Ironically, this year’s Munich forum attempts to delicately touch upon these issues without ever addressing them outright.
In the Foreword to the conference’s introductory report, chairman Wolfgang Ischinger remarks:
“The Munich Security Conference 2026 is taking place at a moment of profound uncertainty… 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.
“Given the significance of this recalibration of U.S. foreign policy, we decided that this year’s Munich Security Report should address the elephant in the room head-on… the United States’ evolving view of the international order.
In truth, the Munich conference avoids confronting this “elephant” by cloaking blatant U.S. imperialist violence in vague, sanitized language.
The Executive Summary continues:
“The world has entered a period of wrecking-ball politics.
Sweeping destruction – rather than careful reforms and policy corrections – is the order of the day. The most prominent of those who promise to free their country from the existing order’s 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.”
This type of disingenuous framing is typical of a forum backed by the Western capitalist elite.
The rare occasion when the Munich conference confronted reality was 19 years ago, when Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered a notable speech in 2007, creating shockwaves among Western elites and media. Putin denounced the unilateral use of “hyper military force” by the U.S. and its blatant disregard for international law, warning it was fueling chaos and devastation.
In that address, Putin stated:
“We see growing disregard for international law’s basic principles. One state – the United States – has overstepped its national boundaries in every sphere.
“And, of course, this is extremely dangerous. It results in the fact that no one feels safe. I want to emphasize this – no one feels safe! Because no one can feel that international law is like a stone wall that will protect them.”
Nearly two decades later, Putin’s critique remains deeply applicable to today’s unchecked U.S. barbarism. “The vampire’s ball is over,” he asserted in a 2024 interview with Dmitry Kiselev.
A key issue has been the immunity and submissiveness Western nations have granted the empire. As with the Epstein controversy and its horrors, the West has enabled the system to spiral out of control, creating a threat to all.
The Munich conference, alongside gatherings such as Davos, the G7, the Trilateral Commission, and the Bilderberg Group, serves primarily to suppress inconvenient truths, shielding Western capitalism and imperialism from accountability.
Nevertheless, a reckoning is approaching as the atrocities of Western power become increasingly unveiled.
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