It's Monday, February 16, 2026.

I'm Albert Mowler, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

Well, there are meetings, and then there are meetings.

We talked recently about one of the most interesting and frankly alarming of the international meetings.

And for a long time, there's been a lot of attention on the meeting of the World Economic Forum at Davos,

precisely because it is a meeting of the most powerful globalists in the world.

Something interesting always happens.

And you're always aware of the fact that something more interesting and more troubling

may have happened and it wasn't reported. But an even more important meeting these days took

place just over the last several days and it wasn't in Davos and Switzerland. It was in Munich and

Germany. This meeting has gone on for decades, but it has taken on a very increased importance in recent years.

And we're talking about the meeting that has to do with national security, the Munich Security Conference.

And as some have described, this is basically a lot like Davos, except the distinction is, this is Davos with guns.

Now, one thing to notice is that in times of relative peace,

Davos gets all the attention.

It's the center of all the most interesting conversations.

But when you are at a time of war,

the Munich Security Conference looms far larger.

Furthermore, different people are in the room. And for example, you have a lot of

people wearing suits. You don't have so many people dressed Hollywood. You do not have people so much

dressed for a snow vacation. Instead, what you have are very serious people, very serious people,

the suits on the one hand and the uniforms on the other. And what you're talking about

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