A heady throng of tech billionaires, ministers, corporate titans and the king of the Netherlands have convened in Sweden for the 71st Bilderberg meeting

– the publicity-shy annual policy conference that has long sustained conspiracy theorists

– hosted this year by the fabulously wealthy Wallenberg family.

The four days of transatlantic talks are taking place at the swanky Grand hotel,
which is owned, like so much else in Sweden, by the Wallenbergs.

The Swedish PM, Ulf Kristersson, turned up for welcome dinner on Thursday evening,
and would have been about halfway through his second plate of meatballs when the first of Israel’s rockets dropped on Tehran.

What better time for the prospects of world war three to go up a gear than in the middle of a Bilderberg conflab,
with #nuclear #proliferation slated for discussion,
and the heads of Nato and MI6, and two of America’s most senior military officers in the room.

They’re joined in Stockholm by the CEOs of several major defence suppliers such as Palantir, Thales and Anduril.

Even the quietly spoken host of the conference,
Marcus Wallenberg, happens to run an arms company.
-- He’s chair of Sweden’s largest defence contractor, Saab.

The Tehran attacks slot happily into the conference agenda,
which includes the topics
“Middle East” and the rise of an “authoritarian axis”

– what Bilderberg insider Nadia Schadlow,
a former deputy US national security adviser,
describes as
“the growing collusion among revisionist powers”.

According to Schadlow:
“An authoritarian axis is rapidly coalescing around China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea,
disrupting the belief that an international community has taken shape in the aftermath of the cold war.”

Earlier this year, the Economist magazine, whose editor sits alongside Schadlow on Bilderberg’s steering committee, struck a similar note, declaring:

“The rupture of the post-1945 order is gaining pace.”

But the Economist handed Donald Trump a fair chunk of the blame for “junking the transatlantic alliance”.

What this means for Bilderberg is that seven decades of hard work nurturing the postwar international order are in danger of going up in – literal – smoke.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/15/bilderberg-hroup?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other