France, Feb. 13 -- Organisers expect more than 60 heads of state and government, and around 100 foreign and defence ministers, to gather in Munich's Bayerischer Hof from Friday through Sunday. In total, more than 1,000 delegates from 120 countries are set to attend.

The 2026 Munich Security Report, titled "Under Destruction" and published last Monday, sets a stark tone.

It argues that the post-1945 order led by the United States is now being actively dismantled by "wrecking-ball politics" - not only by revisionist powers, but by movements inside Western democracies that favour demolition over reform.

The most powerful of the "demolition men", it contends, is US President Donald Trump, whose administration has slashed foreign aid, walke...