“Donald Trump is a global wrecking ball,” according to the organizers of the Munich Conference, who wrote in the report that “President Trump is helping to destroy the post-war international order.”

“The security order that has united the West and much of the rest of the world since the end of World War II is under attack by President Trump and like-minded leaders.”

“Ironically, the president of the United States—the country that has done more than any other to shape the postwar international order—is now the most prominent of those who are dismantling it,” the authors write. “As a result, more than 80 years after it began to be built, the post-war international order is now being destroyed.”

“Under President Donald Trump,” they insist, “the United States has largely abandoned its role as ‘leader of the free world.'”

Highly critical, not to say virulent, of current US policy, the report also targets several measures taken by President Donald Trump, which have been pointed out as seriously damaging established post-war practices, such as the imposition of exorbitant tariffs on long-standing allies, and fluctuating support for Ukraine in its war against Russia.

“Perhaps most shockingly,” the authors write, “is that the United States, under President Trump, has now flouted some of the most basic norms of the post-1945 system: territorial integrity and the prohibition of threatening or using force against other states.”

In line with the views of most Western European leaders, aligned with the position of the European Commission, the report warns of the consequences that Trump’s policy of “demolition”, followed by some other leaders around the world, could bring about: “a less secure and less prosperous world”, a world “shaped by transactional agreements rather than by principled cooperation,  by private interests rather than by public interests, and by regions shaped by regional hegemons rather than by universal norms.”

The US ambassador to NATO, Matthew Whitaker, recently rejected these statements. “I don’t see a world collapsing,” he said, adding that the Trump administration “is not trying to dismantle NATO,” but to force Europe, now an adult, to take charge of itself and give itself the means to free itself from the American umbrella!

The United States will be represented this year by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who will deliver a much-anticipated speech on Saturday.

What can be said about these latest developments?

Although the Munich Security Conference has not produced any tangible results in the past, this new edition reflects the growing divorce of the United States from the European Union and its member states, which are themselves divided on many points by the existence of conflicts of interest.

The war in Ukraine remains a crucial issue for the European Union and those countries that have aligned themselves with the warmongering line of the Commission chaired by German civil servant Ursula von der Leyen.

Without American support, the EU and NATO (they are basically the same thing) do not have the means to continue to carry an inept war at arm’s length, which will soon have to end for lack of fighters on the Ukrainian side, leaving a country humanly, morally, materially devastated.

In my opinion, these virulent criticisms of the United States and the Trump administration by Western European leaders reflect a great disarray on the part of these same leaders, but also a kind of position that anticipates the rejection of the responsibility for defeat on America that is inevitably looming in Ukraine.

Basically, it may well be the probable disappearance of “these two sides of the same coin” that are the EU and NATO, that is looming.

The official conclusions of this conference will have to be deciphered very carefully!