*** 2026 Munich Security Conference Report: "Under Destruction" ***

"The world has entered a period of wrecking-ball politics. Sweeping destruction-- rather than careful reforms and policy corrections-- is the order of the day. The most prominent of those who promise to free their country from the existing order's constraints and rebuild a stronger, more prosperous nation is the current nefarious Trumpf regime. As a result, more than 80 years after construction began, the US-led post-1945 international order is now under destruction."

Note that the cover of the report is a caricature of the Republican Party symbol, the elephant.

Politico reports (Thursday 12 Feb 2026):

"House Republican leaders have informed lawmakers that they can no longer attend the Munich Security Conference as an official delegation.

Logistical arrangements for the delegation were handled by the office of House Foreign Affairs Chair Brian Mast and the USMC.

Speaker Mike Johnson's office notified lawmakers that all official travel, including the Munich visit, is canceled due to a potential Homeland Security Department shutdown.

Lawmakers planning to attend privately will need to secure their own accreditation.

This situation breaks a long-standing precedent of bipartisan congressional participation in the Munich Security Conference.
The funding impasse in Washington is impacting transatlantic diplomacy.

Approximately two dozen members had planned to attend the conference.

Some lawmakers, like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rep. Yassamin Ansari, still intend to travel to Munich despite the official
cancellation."

~snip~

USSECSTATE Marco Rubio will be attending the conference. One wonders how many congressional delegates this time-wasting Empty Suit will ask to join him on the USAF plane which will take him there for free in First Class comfort and luxury. The good-for-nothing imagination-less puppet will be driven back and forth between his five-star hotel and the Munich conference with a motorcade and PSD, all paid for by our tax dollars.

Bon appetite you worthless emperor jackass.

The blog monitors may wish to combine this thread with another one about the Munich Security Conference.

*** German Chancellor Friedrich Merz Blasts Lost US Leadership: "Global Order No Longer Exists" ***

"German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said that US leadership can no longer be taken for granted and Europe must prepare to stand more firmly on its own, in a stark warning to world leaders in Munich.

"The leadership claim of the US is being challenged, perhaps already lost," Merz said during the opening of the Munich Security Conference, laying out the starkest assessment yet from Berlin of a world increasingly defined by great-power rivalry. "In the era of great powers, our freedom is no longer simply guaranteed. It is under threat."

He argued the global system itself may already have collapsed. "The international order based on rights and rules ... no longer exists in the way it once did," he said.

Merz also drew a lesson from Germany's own history. "We Germans know a world in which might makes right would be a dark place," he said. "Our country has gone down this path in the 20th century until the bitter and dreadful end."

Most strikingly, the chancellor confirmed discussions with French President Emmanuel Macron about a European nuclear deterrent."

"The international order based on rights and rules ... no longer exists in the way it once did," he said.
This is what Republicans want.
I'm not sure why, but they do.

#6 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-02-14 04:39 AM | Reply | Flag: Like chickens voting for Colonel Saunders or this:

**** Hologram USSECSTATE Marco Rubio Enjoys Fine Dining and Drinking in Munich, Skips Critical Meeting on Ukraine ****

Sycophant Marco Rubella is absolutely the worst USSECSTATE in the history of the world. This Empty Suit is walking in the hallowed footsteps of Thomas Jefferson, George C. Marshall, and Dr Henry Kissinger.

Remarkable where America is now thanks to Dummkopf Trumpf.