The Halifax International Security Forum’s main objective is to entrench faith in military supremacy among America’s allies at any cost.
The world view of the Halifax International Security Forum was well summed up by the rolling weather updates on the TV screens in the event’s media room. The updates reported weather conditions in three cities: Halifax, of course, and Kyiv, Ukraine, and Tel Aviv, Israel.
It’s not just that the eyes of the event’s attendees were trained on war, but specifically on wars that, as they see it, concern a black-and-white civilizational battle between “democracies” and the bad guys working tirelessly to destroy them. This has been the forum’s core agenda since it was first held in 2009.
This year’s forum attendees, as is typical for the gathering, hailed from all corners of the American empire’s favoured nations (mostly in Europe) and NGO leaders working against its enemies. Some of the higher profile guests included former Israeli prime minister, military general and close Jeffrey Epstein associate Ehud Barak (more on him below), and several defence ministers and American senators.
Absent, however, were any official representatives from United States President Donald Trump’s administration, which despite being more than happy to engage in its own murderous military adventurism, has different priorities to the ones espoused at the forum.
This was made clear by the weekend’s biggest curveball: the release of Trump’s 28-point peace plan for Ukraine, which demanded concessions from Ukraine that are anathema to many of the war hawks attending the forum.
The type of American empire that most of the forum’s delegates believe in is more of an ideal that persists in spite of Trump, and which they hope will be restored just as soon as he goes away. (more...)
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