(15 Feb 2024)
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Munich - 15 February 2024
1. Plane carrying US Vice President Kamala Harris on airport tarmac
2. Harris walking down stairs, greeting people, receiving heart-shaped box reading "Welcome to Germany"
3. Various of Harris speaking to people
4. Harris and man walking down red carpet, speaking, Harris entering vehicle
STORYLINE:
US Vice President Kamala Harris arrived in Munich, Germany on Thursday for the Munich Security Conference.
Long regarded as a celebration of the US-led post-World War II international order, the Munich Security Conference this year will be more of a reflection of America’s political turmoil.
The annual event kicks off Friday after former President Donald Trump threatened not to come to the defense of European allies in the event of an attack by Russia.
There also are broad concerns about whether the US will be able to keep providing billions of dollars in defense assistance for Ukraine and about increasing American isolation over its support for Israel's war in Gaza.
As if that weren't enough, Vice President Harris and Secretary of State Antony Blinken will be accompanied to the conference by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, just days after he was impeached by the Republican-led House on charges that Democrats say are specious.
The increasingly dire developments in Ukraine and Gaza, coupled with Trump's inflammatory comments, mean the event may be overshadowed by the unwanted ghosts of Munich's past — authoritarianism, appeasement and antisemitism — rather than dominated by an optimistic outlook for the future.
The Bavarian capital is known for many positive things, but recent developments in Europe and the Middle East and the volatile US political situation have combined to recall Munich’s history as the birthplace of the Nazi Party in the 1920s, European appeasement of Adolf Hitler in the 1930s, and the massacre of Israeli athletes during the 1972 Munich Olympics.
Although participants including Harris and Blinken are expected to laud American leadership, the conference will hear questions over unprecedented challenges to global rules and regulations that it has championed during its 60-year existence.
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