Author: Eric J. Ballbach
Published: March 2025
THE 2025 MUNICH Security Conference in February was a watershed moment and may well be marked by future historians as the “end of the US-led liberal world order and the point when the erosion of liberal hegemony within Western democracies became undeniable,” as noted by Marc Saxer of the Friedrich-Ebert Foundation.
US Vice President JD Vance, in effect, served notice on the Europeans that the transatlantic alliance will vanish — along with US security guarantees — should European countries be unwilling to follow the Trump administration’s model for transforming its governance. The US thus openly challenged the European security architecture established after the Second World War.
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