The Munich Security Conference (MSC), which opens this week, is the Davos of the defence and strategic policy world. There is a degree of overlap as both gatherings see much debate about geopolitics and global issues. But the World Economic Forum shindig in the Swiss Alps attracts the planet’s top leaders from business, tech, finance and politics – plus a wealth of other hangers-on – to talk about what new globalist “Reset”-type policies to foist on their peoples.
In contrast, the MSC is the get-together of the high priests of the transatlantic “foreign policy community”, from national security-related officials, ministerial figures and heads of government to the crème de la crème of Western strategic thinking. By and large these are the very “elites” who have brought us, in about twenty short years of bungled policies from Iraq to Afghanistan and now Yemen, from the pinnacle of Western power to our current predicament – and who continue to hold sway in the national security councils of allied governments.
It is therefore worthwhile paying some attention to the MSC, if only to get a sense of the latest nonsense and delusions that Western strategic policy will have to endure at the hands of the foreign-policy classes who have already given ample proof of their collective incompetence. Even more important than the actual policy prescriptions that filter out from these Munich jamborees are the globalist ideological currents and narratives they help spawn and amplify, and which continue their decades-old work of undermining and rotting the Western spirit and identity from the inside.