{"id":17505,"date":"2022-04-29T15:10:48","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T13:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=17505"},"modified":"2022-05-01T16:09:58","modified_gmt":"2022-05-01T14:09:58","slug":"vladimir-putins-speech-at-the-2007-munich-security-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=17505","title":{"rendered":"Vladimir Putin&#8217;s speech at the 2007 Munich Security Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-17505-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"300\" poster=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Putin_in_Munchen.jpg\" preload=\"auto\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Putins-speech-at-the-Munich-Security-Conference-10.02.2007-1_4.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Putins-speech-at-the-Munich-Security-Conference-10.02.2007-1_4.mp4\">https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Putins-speech-at-the-Munich-Security-Conference-10.02.2007-1_4.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div><br \/>\nRegarding our perception of NATO\u2019s eastern expansion, I already mentioned the guarantees that were made and that are not being observed today. Do you happen to think that this is normal practice in international affairs? But all right, forget it. Forget these guarantees. With respect to democracy and NATO expansion. NATO is not a universal organisation, as opposed to the UN. It is first and foremost a military and political alliance, military and political! Well, ensuring one\u2019s own security is the right of any sovereign state. We are not arguing against this. Of course we are not objecting to this. But why is it necessary to put military infrastructure on our borders during this expansion? Can someone answer this question? Unless the expansion of military infrastructure is connected with fighting against today\u2019s global threats? Let\u2019s put it this way, what is the most important of these threats for us today \u2013 the most important for Russia, for the USA and for Europe \u2013 it is terrorism and the fight against it.<\/p>\n<p>Does one need Russia to fight against terrorism? Of course! Does one need India to fight against terrorism! Of course! But we are not members of NATO and other countries aren\u2019t either. But we can only work on this issue effectively by joining our forces. As such, expanding infrastructure, especially military infrastructure, to our borders is not connected in any way with the democratic choices of individual states. And I would ask that we not mix these two concepts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Vladimir-Putin\u2018s-Speech-and-the-Following-Discussion-at-the-2007-Munich-Conference-on-Security-Policy.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">transcript<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regarding our perception of NATO\u2019s eastern expansion, I already mentioned the guarantees that were made and that are not being observed today. Do you happen to think that this is normal practice in international affairs? But all right, forget it. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=17505\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}