The debates in Munich must transcend the false choice between a cold, calculated "realism" and a detached idealism.
True statesmanship today requires a principled realism: an understanding that while power dictates the limits of the possible, it is values that define the worth of the pursuit. We must acknowledge the "brute reality" of modern coercion, not to surrender to it, but to construct a new international equilibrium where the rule of law is not a mere suggestion, but the very foundation of stability.
If the "fragmented kaleidoscope" of the West is to hold, it must prove that a coalition of free nations can be as strategically disciplined as any autocracy, yet remains anchored in the belief that the ultimate measure of any global order is the security and agency of the individual.
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