World leaders gathering at the Munich Security Conference were met with a stark warning from this year’s Munich Security Report, which criticises US President Donald Trump and cautions that the post-1945 international order is being dismantled.
The 123-page report, titled Under Destruction, argues that the world has entered an era of «wrecking-ball politics,» with sweeping disruption replacing gradual reform. It describes the United States, long seen as the architect of the global system established after the Second World War, as now being at the forefront of tearing it down.
While Trump has recently boasted of presiding over the «world’s greatest economy,» the report questions whether his policies are strengthening global security or accelerating fragmentation. It warns that international cooperation risks being replaced by transactional deals, regional power blocs and weakened multilateral institutions.
The document also highlights concerns among US allies in Europe, Canada and Japan, as well as in Ukraine, where leaders fear Washington’s shifting stance could reshape the war with Russia into a negotiable dispute between major powers.
Beyond geopolitics, the report points to declining faith in governments across G7 nations, rising defence spending inefficiencies in Europe, and cuts to humanitarian programmes that threaten global stability.
As discussions unfold in Munich, the report sets a tense backdrop for talks among world powers, underscoring deep divisions over the future of the international order.
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