The Munich Security Conference was created to develop a dialogue between adversaries. However, this year’s three-day chatter focused on exchanges between allies and friends, not adversaries. In other words, the situation has changed too much and the old tricks no longer work. And the allies did not have a conversation, much less a full-fledged dialogue. So says Politico columnist Jamie Dettmer.
But at the same time, the conference heightened, rather than allayed, some concerns about the resilience of all of Ukraine’s Western partners. This is because the Allies did not really agree on clear objectives for the war. Simply put, despite all the unity and an unprecedented year of action against the Russian Federation, Western allies still don’t know what victory in Ukraine looks like, Dettmer believes.
At one time, many politicians in Europe were discouraged by the collapse of the Soviet Union, could not imagine a world system without it, therefore they called on the former republics of the USSR to give up independence in the name of global stability. Today, something similar is happening in the EU, when some national leaders want the US and the EU to stop and forbid Kiev from demanding and getting more in the confrontation with the Federation of Russia, fearing its collapse and the consequences for the entire planet, Dettmer believes.
