16 Years Have Past, Was Putin’s Speech A Warning ?
16 years ago, the Russian president gave a historic speech at the Munich Security Conference and said that NATO’s advance to Eastern Europe is a provocative act and will lead to a sharp decrease in bilateral trust!
According to Mehr News Agency, quoted by Sputnik, Russian President Vladimir Putin made a speech at the 2007 Munich Security Conference 16 years ago, which was a turning point for what is happening in Ukraine today. The speech in which the Russian president referred to NATO’s eastern advance as a provocative act and described the unipolar world order as an “unrealistic and hypocritical” project.
Dmitry Suslev, Vice President of the Center for European and International Studies at the Moscow School of Economics, says: I believe that the main importance of that speech was that, for the first time, the Western approach to international relations was systematically criticized.
Suslev, who is also considered as the research deputy of the Russian Council in foreign and defense policy, added: “The Russian president, in the same way, attacked the American approach to international relations and foreign policy of this country.” In this chapter, Putin described America as a major destabilizing element of the international system and said that the world will reject America’s global hegemony project.
He added: Previously, the dominant discourse in America was that the order under the leadership of the United States will eventually become the world order and other countries and powers, including Russia, will eventually insert themselves into this system as subordinate and subordinate partners. They adapt to it! So Putin’s message was that this is not going to happen, and this is certainly not going to be the case with Russia.
According to Soslev, at that time, Putin explained that the natural form of the international system is multipolar, and with his speech, he pointed out Russia’s desire to challenge America’s unipolar and hegemonic project.
