RT’s Chay Bowes looks back at the once prestigious event, which has devolved into a “Russophobic fundraiser”
The latest Munich Security Conference descended into becoming a Russophobic fundraiser for Ukraine while revealing a further erosion of transatlantic unity, the host of RT’s Moscow Mules show, Chay Bowes, believes.
The 2007 warning from Russian President Vladimir Putin, who cautioned in his keynote speech at the conference about the threat to the post-war global order, has finally caught up with the European elites, Bowes said. Now, “even Russia’s most vocal critics are admitting the old system is essentially dead,” he noted, commenting on this year’s conference, which concluded on Sunday.
The once-prestigious event turned into a “Russophobic fundraiser,” where “Europe’s unpopular leaders [were] competing with each other to see who can love Kiev the most,” Bowes said. At the same time, one of the keynote speakers, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, did not mention Ukraine at all.
“For we in America have no interest in being polite and orderly caretakers of the West’s managed decline. Under President Trump, the United States of America will once again take on the task of renewal and restoration, driven by a vision of a future as proud, as sovereign, and as vital as our civilization’s past,” Rubio said in Munich.
The latest conference clearly showed “that the transatlantic relationship is less and less secure, as Russia apparently remains the cause of all of Europe’s problems, while the US is determined to move on,” Bowes concluded.
