Open Letters, from Anne Applebaum

Open Letters, from Anne Applebaum

End of an Era

After Munich

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Anne Applebaum
Feb 20, 2025
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This is me, in Munich, at the Ukrainian lunch that takes place every year during the annual Security Conference. I am sitting next to the Foreign Minister of Moldova. Behind me is a blurry Ric Grennell. I didn’t have a chance to speak to him, he left early.

The first Munich Security Conference was held in 1963, on the initiative of Ewald Von Kleist, a m…

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