🤔 Feeling the post-MSC blues? We have the answer.
The final episode of our podcast with @foreignpolicy.com takes you back to the recent #MSC2026 and the 🐘🐘 that were addressed during the weekend.
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#FoodSecurity is more than an isolated policy goal. It is security. Investments in resilient agrifood systems are not charity, but a strategic imperative for a more stable, equitable, and peaceful world.
Read the full Joint Statement ⬇️
💪 Robust, diversified & resilient agrifood systems should be seen as key elements of effective deterrence & defense in a hybrid threat landscape.
Countries should invest in strengthening the cyber and biosecurity of their food systems, as part of critical infrastructure.
🪙 There is a strong business case for investing in resilient agrifood systems and linked sectors.
The costs for ad hoc emergency aid, health care, and the military to deal with the spillover-effects of hunger are much higher than those of transforming agrifood systems.
⚔️ Food insecurity is being used as a weapon of war and a geopolitical lever.
Food production, infrastructure, supply chains, and humanitarian access are systematically targeted, fueling humanitarian crises and revealing strategic vulnerabilities.
Conflict remains the primary driver of acute food insecurity. In turn, unreliable access to food increases political instability.
👉 Therefore, investments in food security at home and abroad are investments in national security.
Food security is foundational to human dignity, economic development & geopolitical stability—but it's increasingly at risk worldwide.
The destabilizing effects of food insecurity are of strategic relevance as central drivers of instability, conflict, displacement & inequality.
At #MSC2026, German and Norwegian government officials, military, humanitarian, scientific, and private‑sector representatives signed a Joint Statement concluding our #FoodSecurity Task Force. It reflects two years of dialogue and progress.
Here are the key takeaways 🧵
Want to read more reflections on that pivotal 2007 speech from a current-day perspective?
Check out "Selected Key Speeches, Vol. III", available for free download on our website (8/8) ⬇️
Eka Tkeshelashvili reflects on Putin's doctrine of the use of force: "Conceived in Munich, rehearsed in Georgia, perfected in Ukraine, it redefined the parameters of conflict in Europe and destroyed the post-Cold War security architecture." (7/8)
Europe's mistake, according to Pavlo Klimkin, was "engaging Russia based on a 'win-win' approach." But "the Russian approach to security has always been about a zero sum game—it defines Russia’s mentality on international relations altogether." (6/8)
Celeste Wallander is equally straightforward: "There is little mystery in Putin’s vision. He has told us that he is in full conflict with the values, interests, and priorities of the transatlantic community." (5/8)
Alexander Graf Lambsdorff's assessment is clear: "Western structures as a whole failed to react to the Munich speech and its aftermath. In hindsight, it was a warning of what was to come." (4/8)
🖋️ According to Ivan Krastev, Putin used his speech to write a new historical narrative:
"To rectify a historical injustice, Putin decided to erase Ukrainian national identity and fold the country into an expanded Russian civilization. This was the end of Europe’s peace." (3/8)
Garry Kasparov is convinced: "Dictators, and Putin is no exception, tell us exactly what they plan to do, if we just pay attention." (2/8)
"The warning signs were present, the rhetoric was consistent, and the shift in Moscow’s worldview was articulated long before it was manifested in action."—Benedikt Franke & Nardine Luca on the legacy of Putin's 2007 speech.
Here are more reflections from today's perspective 🧵
Deutsch-Polnisches Engagement zur Ukraine-Verteidigung wäre eine politisch & symbolisch wichtige Botschaft.
Unser Vorsitzender Wolfgang Ischinger und der ehemalige polnische Botschafter Janusz Reiter schreiben in The Pioneer über Europas Friedenssicherung.
Dean of PSIA Sciences Po, @aranchagonzalez.bsky.social, at the #MSC2026 Kick-off Townhall on what Europe needs to strengthen its security.
🎧 New episode alert!
Ep. 6 of "Munich Moments" is here. Recorded live at #MSC2026, @foreignpolicy.com Editor-in-Chief @ravireports.bsky.social and US Under Secretary of War for Policy Elbridge Colby dive into the future of US foreign strategy, with a spotlight on the Indo-Pacific.
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After #MSC2026 is before #MSC2027.
📅 Mark your calendars: We will meet again in Munich from February 12–14, 2027.
📺 Until then, rewatch this year's discussions: securityconference.org/en/msc-2026/...
An Order Broken, Bruised, or Bolstered?
At #MSC2026, global leaders convened in Munich to confront the elephants in the room—above all, the future of the rules‑based international order.
Watch our highlights below ⬇️
In the third edition of the @table.media #MSC2026 special, host Michael Bröcker invites Austria's Chancellor Christian Stocker, Vice Admiral Dr. Thomas Daum, and investor Christian Angermayer to discuss hybrid threats, negotiation channels with Russia, and more.
With Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, Finland's Foreign Minister @elinavaltonen.bsky.social, Germany's Minister for Research, Technology & Space @dorobaer.bsky.social, and Deutsche Bank Head Christian Sewing, Michael Bröcker (@table.media) discusses Chancellor Merz's plans for Europe.
"Who are Europe's new partners?", Michael Bröcker (@table.media) asks @magnusbrunner.bsky.social, EU Commissioner for Internal Affairs & Migration, Ahmed Alattar, Ambassador of the UAE in Germany, political scientist Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook, and Paul Achleitner, former Deutsche Bank Board Chairman.
What do top politicians in Europe and the US think about their "relationship crisis"?
In the @ndr.de podcast "Amerika, wir müssen reden", the hosts Jiffer Bourguignon & Ingo Zamperoni discuss with Vassili @golod.bsky.social, Head of the ARD bureau in Kyiv, and podcaster Kai @kuestnerk.bsky.social.
In a special episode for the @zeit.de podcast "Ok, America?", the hosts Rieke Havertz (@havpost.bsky.social) and Klaus @brinkbaeumer.bsky.social talk about their days at #MSC2026, and how Germany, Europe, and the US presented themselves.
Paul @ronzheimer.bsky.social and Fillip Piatov analyze the highly anticipated speeches by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio directly on-site at #MSC2026: How resilient is the transatlantic relationship? And what does this mean for Germany’s security policy?
With #Apofika host @mickybeisenherz.bsky.social, @florencegaub.bsky.social from the NATO Defense College talks you through her #MSC2026 experience:
🏄♂️ "What you see in the press is only a fraction of what’s really happening here. It’s like surfing: you’re carried by a wave—and it’s incredibly fun."
#Apofika "Presseklub" live from #MSC2026.
With the journalists @marinakormbaki.bsky.social and Georg Mascolo, and Head of the Berlin ARD studio @markuspreiss.bsky.social, host @mfeldenkirchen.bsky.social examines how Europe is caught between dependence and self‑assertion in a new world order.
