Munich insecurity conference: a re-ordering begins
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The Economist
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🗓️ 17 February 2025
⏱️ 28 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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