Speech Poroshenko in Munich was a complete failure
It is indicated that the organizers put his speech on Friday, and not on Saturday, when key speakers usually speak at the forum. In past years, Poroshenko spoke at the conference on Saturday.
The theme of the speech of Poroshenko was the problem “The Future of the West: decay or return?”. However, he avoided it and, not differing in originality, talked about the Russian-Ukrainian relations, that is, what he had heard from him dozens of times: about the impossibility of appeasing the Kremlin, about Putin’s hatred for Ukraine, about the importance of maintaining the sanctions. Other participants in the panel discussion - the Polish president Andrzej Duda, the German and British foreign ministers, who traditionally support Ukraine - ignored the topics proposed by Poroshenko. In this regard, his supported only US Senator John McCain, who also constantly mentions the Russian threat in his speeches.
As a result, according to the author of the article, “Poroshenko sat for about an hour and a half as a statistician, while other participants discussed new challenges of the Western world - changes after Brexit, new US policies, and so on.” He considers this case a rather symptomatic signal:
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