Munich Security Conference

“No Regrets”: A 2021 Monkeypox Simulation Predicted 270 Million Dead, Lockdowns, Mask Mandates & Social Distancing

As the world is hearing about the spread of monkeypox we are also learning of a 2021 exercise which simulated a worldwide monkeypox outbreak killing 270 million people.  In March 2021, two organizations partnered together to conduct a simulation to evaluate “high-consequence biological threats”. The simulation focused on a bio-terror attack which used a weaponized version Read More...

A World No Longer Shaped by Atlantic Powers

M. K. BHADRAKUMAR
The annual Munich Security Conference that took place February 14-16 this year turned out to be an iconic event, drawing comparison with the one held in the same Bavarian city on February 10, 2007, where in a prophetic speech Russian President Vladimir Putin had criticized the world order characterized by the United States’ global hegemony and its “almost uncontained hyper use of force—military force—in international relations.”

The West Displays Its Insecurity Complex

The only complaint the U.S. allows is that the United States might not defend us enough, when the greater danger comes from being defended too much, writes Diana Johnstone on the Munich conference.
Diana JOHNSTONE
“The West is winning!” U.S. leaders proclaimed at the high-level Annual Security Conference held in Munich last weekend.
Not everybody was quite so sure.

With Drone in Hand, Netanyahu Threatens War With Iran at Security Conference

(ANTIWAR.COM) — At the annual Munich Security Conference, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was ready, putative piece of a drone in hand, to talk about the need for region-wide military action against the “Iranian empire.” Netanyahu claimed the part was from a drone which crossed into Israeli airspace, and was Iranian, and was shot down. Israel […]

US Accuses Syria of Using Chemical Weapons, Warns of Iranian Influence

(MEE) — U.S. National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster said on Saturday that public reports showed Syria was using chemical weapons and added that it was time for the international community to hold the Syrian government to account. “Public accounts and photos clearly show that Assad’s chemical weapons use is continuing,” McMaster said at the annual Munich Security […]