Executive producer Stephen Bannon poses at the premiere of "Sweetwater" during the 2013 Sundance Film Festival on Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013 in Park City, Utah. Danny Moloshok/Invision/AP Now that President Donald Trump has added Steve Bannon to his National Security Council (after removing the director of National Intelligence and the chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff), it's worth looking again at how Bannon sees the world and specifically how he sees national security.

The former Breitbart chief discussed his views at length during a meeting of the Human Dignity Institute, a conservative religious group that held a conference at the Vatican in 2014. A recording of the meeting was obtained by BuzzFeed.

In the meeting, Bannon painted an apocalyptic picture of modern history. He said the West had only recentlytaken from that meeting. You can read the entire transcript here.

He called the 20th century "a new Dark Age" of death and destruction triggered by World War I:

"That war triggered a century of barbaric — unparalleled in mankind's history — virtually 180 to 200 million people were killed in the 20th century, and I believe that, you know, hundreds of years from now when they look back, we're children of that: We're children of that barbarity. This will be looked at almost as a new Dark Age."

That Dark Age, he said, was ended only by the rise of Western prosperity. But he said capitalism had become threatened by a "new barbarity":

"And we're at the very beginning stages of a very brutal and bloody conflict ... this new barbarity