Munich insecurity conference: a re-ordering begins
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The Economist
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🗓️ 17 February 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Backing away from European security guarantees and seeking mineral rights in Ukraine as recompense for military aid: at the Munich Security Conference the Trump administration made its convention-trashing, transactional nature clear. What Europe will or even can do is not so obvious. And a tribute to Donald Shoup, whose studies on keeping cars moving focused on where they parked (17:45).
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| 1:00.2 | Donald Schoop rode a bicycle, but his obsession was traffic, |
| 1:03.1 | specifically how to make cities more efficient by having the right parking spaces and ways to charge for them. |
| 1:07.1 | Our obituaries editor remembers a man who got cities moving. |
| 1:15.3 | Music Our obituaries editor remembers a man who got cities moving. Before that, though, we're trying to parse a pile of news from a bewildering conference over the weekend. |
| 1:29.3 | ... Mr. President, Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, dear friend, |
| 1:50.4 | welcome to this year's Munich Security Conference. |
| 1:53.4 | Before we start, I would... |
| 1:55.7 | For presidents and prime ministers, defense secretaries and spy chiefs, |
| 2:00.1 | the Munich Security Conference is a huge |
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