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The Munich Security Conference and Global Threats
Blain’s Morning Porridge Feb 11th, 2026 – The Munich Conference and Global Threats
“What do you worry about?” … “Events, dear boy, events.”
There are times when the course of history takes on a momentum of its own, most often in periods of conflict around hegemonic change – as exist today. This year’s Munich Security Conference will address stressed and fractured global alliances – while markets should be figuring out how conflict risks have risen and potential outcomes worsened.
Wolfgang Ischinger, chairman of the Munich Security Conference (which opens later this week) is a former German…
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