[View the story "Tweets from the Munich Security Conference" on Storify ] Tweets from the Munich Security Conference Think Tankers, journalists and politicians tweet from the world's most important security conference. And a couple of responses from me. d Storified by Joerg Wolf · Sun, Feb 03 2013 04:11:14
400 delegates; 70 countries; 1 Vice President; and an agenda. The Munich Security Conference gets underway. #MSC2013 http://goo.gl/aLJNSPeter B. Doran
@FHeisbourg Germany ambivalent. De Maziere wants normalisation, Westerwelle neutralization, Merkel win polls in pacifist country. #msc2013Ulrich Speck
On NATO:
Shrinking NATO: Rasmussen: "I see our Alliance shifting from operational engagement to operational readiness. From campaign to contingency."Kurt Volker
Exactly. Pronto. RT @pbanura: #NATO SG Rasmussen "we need to strengthen our cyber-resilience capacities". Indeed! #MSC2013Joerg Wolf
How important is Europe for the Obama administration?
Joe Biden @ #msc2013: "The President sends me to places where he doesn't want to go." We don't read that as a statement on US-EU relations.Volker Perthes
@volkerperthes Or do we? All this reassuring of US-EU relations seems odd given that Obama never actually managed to visit Berlin ...Daniel Florian
On international economics:
Unless Asia goes to war, which is likely! RT @carlbildt: On present trends Asia will grow 124%, US 33% and Europe 17% next decade. #msc2013Joerg Wolf
India's Menon: "We're not rising. Some of these "rising" powers are restoring the historical norm." #msc2013 ouch calling out condescensionRachel Tausendfreund
Mr. #Jain (DeutscheBank) at #msc2013: "the acute phase of the euro crisis is over". - Someone should tell the 58% unemployed #Spanish youth.Reinhard Bütikofer
Indeed! #Fail RT @paulsen_thomas: Steinmeier: Lack of progress in regulating global financial markets is reckless. #MSC2013Joerg Wolf
On Iran:
Biden: prepared to meet bilaterally with Iranians but based on real agenda not just for sake of the exercise #msc2013Nathalie Tocci
Iranians are biggest bargainers ever with 2000 years of big bazaar deals: they are playing for time as the centrifuges spin the uranium #MSCNouriel Roubini
Israel DefMin Barak said Middle East hasn't been this unstable since collapse of Ottoman Empire. True. #msc2013Carl Bildt
#Barak at #MSC2013: On air strikes in #Syria: When we say something we mean it. It shouldn't be allowed bring weapons systems to HizbullahJulian Borger
@transatlantic re German "leadership" on Iran, it sounds like @RuprechtPolenz is doing a good job at #msc2013...Hans Kundnani
Great, our arguments since 2010 RT @carlbildt: In Iran debate @vali_nasr calls for a step-by-step approach to build confidence #msc2013Atlantic Community
Engaging Tehran with Concrete Reciprocityhttp://bit.ly/Tu6WUY @carlbildt @vali_nasr #MSC2013Atlantic Community
On Syria
#McCain Assad might have taken red lines on chem weapons as green light for anything else #msc2013Sylke Tempel
McCain to #Saudi and #Qatari panelists: we appraciate Gulf assistance, but some assistance is going to the wrong ppl #syria #MSC2013Marietje Schaake
Sen #McCain: In case of #Syria, we might call it "waiting from behind", not "leading from behind". #msc2013Andrea Baumann
On Russia
Moscow's idea of scoring points? RT @SylkeTempel: takes FM Lavrov 5 min to make clear how deeply distrustful Russia is of #NATO. #MSC2013Joerg Wolf
We can't expect *trust* from #Russia. We need is *confidence* building measures! Anything about that at #MSC2013? @SylkeTempel @TobiasBundeJoerg Wolf
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