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At the Munich Security Conference, Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas rejected US criticism while European leaders pressed for greater strategic autonomy as transatlantic ties shifted toward interests.

The Wall Street Journal
While the main focus of the Munich Security Conference was on the alliance, top leaders from Europe wanted to know from U.S. politicians what they thought of the coming midterm elections

While the main focus of the Munich Security Conference was on the alliance, top leaders wanted to know all about November.

While the main focus of the Munich Security Conference was on the alliance, top leaders from Europe wanted to know from U.S. politicians what they thought of the coming midterm elections
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by Julie Novkov

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@evanbernick.bsky.social is right. You should read the whole Rubio speech. I'd love to get my political theorist friends' take on this, but to me, it looks like an embrace of white Christian nationalism as the foundational principle of the United States.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the Munich Security Conference - United States Department of State
SECRETARY RUBIO:  Thank you very much.  We gather here today as members of a historic alliance, an alliance that saved and changed the world.  When this conference began in 1963, it was in a nation – ...
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February 15, 2026 at 1:20 PM
Süddeutsche Zeitung
Security Conference: Europe's economic giant has had enough of being diminished

In Munich, confident tones were heard. That's good, but it cannot avert an existential threat: the EU must stand its ground in the jungle of great powers.

Security Conference: Europe's economic giant has had enough of being diminished
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El Mundo
Europe closes ranks in Munich amid doubts about its security and its future

The Munich forum ends with an intervention by the EU's top diplomat, Kaja Kallas, in defense of the continent and outlining three strategic priorities for the European project Read

Europe closes ranks in Munich amid doubts about its security and its future
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Süddeutsche Zeitung
Munich Security Conference: The West He Means

US Secretary of State Rubio spoke in Munich passionately about 'Western civilization.' That moved some people. To clarify: he clearly aligns with Mel Gibson's view of history; it's less about the values of the French Enlightenment.

Munich Security Conference: The West He Means
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Handelsblatt
Munich Security Conference: Kallas calls for concessions from Russia for peace

Three days of talks in Munich by politicians, military personnel and scientists on how to handle crises and wars. Europeans are demanding a greater say.

Munich Security Conference: Kallas calls for concessions from Russia for peace
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The Independent
EU chief hits back at ‘European-bashing’ after Rubio speech

Kaja Kallas rejected what she called ‘European-bashing’ a day after Marco Rubio said the US does not want ‘weak’ allies

EU chief hits back at ‘European-bashing’ after Rubio speech
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Handelsblatt
A wobbling world order: Five lessons from the Munich Security Conference

Friendly in tone, hard in substance. The transatlantic crisis may have been defused at the MSC, but not ended. Even a European nuclear shield is now being discussed.

A wobbling world order: Five lessons from the Munich Security Conference
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Svenska Dagbladet
Crisis in relations in Munich – what happened

Did world leaders at the Munich security conference manage to patch up the strained US-Europe relationship? Does U.S. President Donald Trump still want Greenland? And did the war in Ukraine have any room? Here is, in brief, what happened during three days at the Bayerischer Hof luxury hotel in Bavaria, Germany.

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Der Spiegel
An assessment of the Munich Security Conference: The moment that makes Europe look naive

Irritating standing ovations and an allegedly healing near-death experience: The Munich Security Conference shows how badly the transatlantic relationship stands. A reckoning.

An assessment of the Munich Security Conference: The moment that makes Europe look naive
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Süddeutsche Zeitung
Prantl's View: What's at stake? Us!

Ash Wednesday, the Munich Security Conference, and the atomic bomb: about the real crisis and the end of things.

Prantl's View: What's at stake? Us!
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Aftenposten
Did Americans think they could repair the relationship with Europe?

MUNICH: The US turned on the charm. Can the relationship across the Atlantic be repaired?

Did Americans think they could repair the relationship with Europe?
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Süddeutsche Zeitung
Munich Security Conference: "That was a little love bomb"

At first everyone was almost spellbound because Marco Rubio sounded so nice, quite different from J. D. Vance last year at the security conference. But ultimately he delivered the same message: Those who do not follow Trump are out of luck. Munich and the rift that remains.

Munich Security Conference: "That was a little love bomb"
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by Scott Lucas

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At #MunichSecurityConference, EU foreign policy head #Kallas and #Latvia President Rinkēvičs push back #Zelensky call for specific date for #Ukraine accession to #EU

"The member states are not ready to give a concrete date. There’s a lot of work to be done"

#UkraineWar
February 15, 2026 at 10:35 AM

by Andrew Watt

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If you had the slightest doubt as to how to interpret Rubio's speech at the MSC, you just need to see who he visits afterwards.
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That Rubio received a standing ovation & gushing praise shows how ill served Europe is by its transatlantic-oriented foreign policy elite network
February 15, 2026 at 10:32 AM

by Scott Lucas

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EA on TVP World: The #MunichSecurityConference and
#Trump Threat to Europe

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EA on TVP World: The Munich Security Conference and Trump's Threat to Europe - EA WorldView
13-minute evaluation of speeches and maneuvers at Munich Security Conference, amid Trump Administration's threat to Europe and its security
eaworldview.com
February 15, 2026 at 10:29 AM
Handelsblatt
Munich Security Conference: US Senator Graham praises Merz as a Trump sympathizer

The chancellor had predicted in January an end to Iran's leadership. For that, he receives applause from someone who is very close to the US president

Munich Security Conference: US Senator Graham praises Merz as a Trump sympathizer
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euractiv.com
After Munich speech, Rubio visits Trump allies in Slovakia and Hungary
After Munich speech, Rubio visits Trump allies in Slovakia and Hungary
The visits come a day after Rubio called on Europeans to defend "Western civilisation"
dlvr.it
February 15, 2026 at 10:24 AM

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🇩🇪🇺🇦 Our lesson for today should be this: we cannot afford another "paper tiger" like Budapest Memorandum. To provide reliable and real security guarantees, all of us - Europeans and Americans - must do our part. Europe and Germany are ready to play their part, — Boris Pistorius.
February 15, 2026 at 10:20 AM
Süddeutsche Zeitung
Defense Firms at the Munich Security Conference: Rockets, Drones and Leberkäse

Some stage a rocket outside a cafe, others plaster the city with images of weapons. How the defense industry is positioning itself at the Munich Security Conference.

Defense Firms at the Munich Security Conference: Rockets, Drones and Leberkäse
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