The Munich Security Conference generally displays world leaders working together to find compromise and stand united. However, this year, distrust and the threat of unsolved crises loomed over discussions. Because of this week's events, it has become increasingly clear that diplomacy may be coming to an end and that interstate conflict cannot be avoided at this point. Leaders from the Middle East, specifically the Iranian Prime Minister, have clashed with Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu over an Iranian drone shot down in Israeli airspace earlier in the month. The United States has also attacked Iran over the Obama administration's nuclear deal, which was a key topic in Saturday's talks. The North Korean missile crisis and the possibility of American inflammatory remarks leading to a war also dominated the conference. If relations between trans-Atlantic countries continue to deteriorate, there is no telling where the world will end up.
President Trump's preferred methods of diplomacy have gone against the grain of the international alliance and agreement system that has been the standard for 70 years. European anxiety over these methods and how they will affect their relations with the rest of the world has distracted from other issues, that, under a conventional White House, would be addressed much faster and with more ease. The actions of one country, particularly one so powerful as the United States, directly affect the other nations it does business with and forms alliances with, as seen in the Great Depression. Until the United States reaches stability at home, then we cannot expect to instill stability abroad.
https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2018/02/19/587120571/insecurity-at-the-munich-security-conference-as-global-crises-grow-more-contenti
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