Need for greater military autonomy also accepted, says report for Munich Security Conference, which takes place this week

Need for greater military autonomy also accepted, says report for Munich Security Conference, which takes place this week

Europe has come to the painful realisation that it needs to be more assertive and more militarily independent from an authoritarian US administration that no longer shares a commitment to liberal democratic norms and values, a report prepared by the Munich Security Conference asserts.

The report sets the scene for an all-out ideological confrontation with the Trump White House at the high-level annual meeting of security policy specialists, which starts on Friday.

In a now infamous speech to last year’s MSC, the US vice-president, JD Vance, claimed European elites were suppressing free speech and “opening the floodgates” to mass migration. The address marked the moment Europe realised the Trump administration would no longer be a reliable trading and security partner.

  • TrivialBetaState@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    When most of your computers have either Windows or MacOS and almost all your phones are either Android or iOS, you cannot have any kind of independence. And even if you ever managed to fix that (unlikely in the foreseeable future), there is Intel Management Engine and AMD Security Tech to ensure that you won’t make a step without Uncle Sam knowing about it.

  • FreshParsnip@lemmy.caEnglish
    1·
    6 hours ago

    One of my biggest fears is the Untied States conquering the world because the world refuses to recognize that the Untied States is no longer the peaceful country we see in television

  • axh@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    14 hours ago

    Who is that Europe that you are writing about? My country’s president would gladly bend over for Donny to get some political support and empty promises.