Over the weekend roughly 300 security experts from over dozens of countries met in Germany for the annual Munich Conference on Security Policy (formerly known as Wehrkunde). This year’s topic was “Peace through Dialogue.” From a transatlantic perspective, the theme rang true, with notably less tension than in recent years over Iraq and the U.S.-led war on terror. But the conference organizers put the conference theme to the test by inviting both Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iran’s top nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani. Both men delivered hard-hitting critiques of the United States and the West more broadly that had a striking resemblance to exchanges during the Cold War.
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