Can Europe still trust USA as an Allied?

VESTLANDSKONFERANSEN

This year’s theme of the regional conference in Bergen is ALLIED. A new world order – new alliances.
Palestine and the continuing genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank are not mentioned.
Munich Security Report 2026: Under Destruction – portrait the US under the second Trump GOP Adm.

Updated 12, 11, February, first posted on Bergensia February 10, 2026.

Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs Espen Barth Eide points out that the USA under Trump has weakened its engagement in many of the institutions built after World War II. In effect, the USA leaves its own hegemony as the world’s only superpower, leaving room for China. It has been one year since Vance held his awakening speech at the Munich Security Conference on February 14. 2025. See some ofhis controversial quotes below and think of the USA under Trump’s rule:

The threat that I worry the most about vis-à-vis Europe is not Russia, it’s not China, it’s not any other external actor. And what I worry about is the threat from within, the retreat of Europe from some of its most fundamental values — values shared with the United States of America.

Across Europe, free speech, I fear, is in retreat.

I believe deeply that there is no security if you are afraid of the voices, the opinions and the conscience that guide your very own people.

European governments [are] running in fear of their own voters.

I look to Brussels, where EU commissars warn citizens that they intend to shut down social media during times of civil unrest the moment they spot what they’ve judged to be, quote, ‘hateful content.’

When we see European courts canceling elections and senior officials threatening to cancel others, we ought to ask whether we’re holding ourselves to an appropriately high standard.

– JD Vance, Münich Security Conference, February 14, 2025. full transcription on presidency.ucsb.edu (American Presidency Project) and (MSC Speeches 2025 Vol. 2).

Under Destruction
Munich Security Report 2026

The world has entered a period of wrecking-ball politics

Sweeping destruction – rather than careful reforms and policy corrections

As a result, more than 80 years after construction, the US-led post-1945 international order is now under destruction:

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— Thomas Hansen (@thomashansen.bsky.social) February 9, 2026 at 3:53 PM

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