  We examine the issue of monopole annihilation at the electroweak scale
induced by flux tube confinement, concentrating first on the simplest
possibility---one which requires no new physics beyond the standard model.
Monopoles existing at the time of the electroweak phase transition may trigger
$W$ condensation which can confine magnetic flux into flux tubes. However we
show on very general grounds, using several independent estimates, that such a
mechanism is impotent. We then present several general dynamical arguments
constraining the possibility of monopole annihilation through any confining
phase near the electroweak scale.
