The largest Defense event in the world attacks Trump and his “demolition policy” after the JD Vance show in 2025

Vance’s speech attracted attention for its virulence and because we had not yet seen him face in the Oval Office Volodímir Zelenski and we did not know their intentions well. After all, the Trump Administration had not even been in power for a month and no one expected such a traumatic start.

Because the fact is that Vance stayed comfortable in Munich: he compared the European Union to the Soviets for their supposed fight against freedoms, attacked their immigration policy based on false data and criticized European dependence on the United States in the military aspect.

Word after word, Vance reeled off a message that could easily have been signed by Alexander Duginone of the leading philosophers of Russian nationalism, or any of the far-right anti-system parties that defend the separation of Brussels.

In fact, Vance came to support the Alternative for Germany (AfD) and wanted to encourage the elected chancellor, Friedrich Merzto stop “sanitary cordons” and make an agreement with the organization of neo-Nazi origin, which did not sit very well in Munich.

A year later, it seems that the organizers are prepared and have wanted to make it clear since the presentation of their safety report for 2026.

The end of an era

With the title “In destruction” and the image of an angry elephant as its logo, the report sets positions from the beginning: “The most powerful of those who attack existing norms and institutions is the president of the United States, Donald Trump. For his supporters, Washington’s demolition policy promises to break institutional inertia and force resolution of problems that were previously blocked.”

“However, it is not clear whether this demolition is really clearing the way for policies that ultimately benefit the people,” the document points out.

The express statement is in itself an act of courage that is not seen too often among European political institutions, which prefer not to irritate the American president with direct references.

In the analysis of the relationship between Europe and the United States, everything that Vance pointed out the previous year is taken as good: “The era in which Europe could trust Washington as an unquestionable guarantor of its security is over. European leaders must accept this reality and act accordingly.”

This conclusion is reminiscent of the recent speech by the Canadian Prime Minister, Mark Carneyat the Davos Economic Forum, in which he quoted the Czech playwright Vaclav Havel and the tendency of countries and citizens to accommodate and rely on appeasement so that everything remains the same.

In that sense, the report points to the irresponsibility of European leaders: “By striving to make the United States the anchor of the European security order, they have postponed the more complicated task of preparing a future in which the United States follows its own path.”

“There are no weapons left in reserve for Ukraine”

What will be played in Munich from this Friday the 13th to Sunday the 15th will be the way to articulate that disconnection. Europe will have to carry out this own security project that has been talked about for months and the United States will have to calibrate what degree of participation it wants to assume in the defense of the continent.

Europe continues to rely massively on American weapons and many countries—including Spain—continue to drag their feet when it comes to investing in defense.

The German Defense Minister Boris Pistoriuswas forceful this Thursday regarding the conflict that continues to focus all eyes: “There are no longer any weapons in our reserves to send to Ukraine. It is necessary to increase investment.”

It is not an issue that can be postponed much longer: the Trump administration has already demonstrated that it is not willing to continue financing the Ukrainian resistance and its sympathies towards Moscow are public and well-known.

The emergence of possible new conflicts in 2027, such as between China and Taiwan, makes agile and immediate planning necessary and the report itself already anticipates that the different economic contribution of each country can “cause internal tensions when it comes to sharing the security burdens in Europe.”

According to the organizer, Wolfgang Ischigerthe objective will be to restore trust between both sides of the Atlantic, “which, obviously, has been damaged. Just remember Greenland.”

Up to sixty-five world leaders and around one hundred defense and foreign ministers will share sessions over three days.

The American delegation will be led by the Secretary of State, Marco Rubioa face in principle kinder than Vance.

Figures critical of Trump’s management have also traveled to Munich, such as the governor of California, Gavin Newsomor the congresswoman from New York, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

The Spanish representation will be carried out by the president Pedro Sanchezpointed out directly by the White House for its reluctance to increase the defense budget.

It is very likely that Sánchez will go off on a tangent and get involved talking about social networks and technoligarchs. Next to him will be the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jose Manuel Albaresand with almost complete certainty, the Minister of Defense, Margaret Robles.