“I wrote out a diagnosis”: a political scientist analyzed Zaluzhny’s speech in London

“I wrote out a diagnosis”: a political scientist analyzed Zaluzhny’s speech in London Anzhelika Galesevich

Former Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces Valery Zaluzhny spoke at RUSI Land Warfare Conference 2024 in London as Ambassador of Ukraine. The platform for the first public speech was chosen correctly.

This is a security event, but at the same time military-diplomatic and political. This opinion 24 Channel was expressed by political scientist Oleg Sahakyan, noting that thanks to this Zaluzhny was able to compose the image well.

On the one hand, the military. On the other hand, he is already a diplomat. This format best reveals its strengths. Therefore, a security conference organized by a British specialized institution is the right platform to make oneself known.

As evidenced by Zaluzhny’s speech

Valery Zaluzhny’s speech, according to the political scientist, was built according to Western-centric canons, but from the Ukrainian point of view. He spoke not about Ukraine, but about European security, world challenges, modern war and Western models of response, taking into account the experience of our state.

Not asking and not teaching, but offering and giving his opinion, he wrote out a diagnosis of the Western security system and modern war,” Sahakyan emphasized.

The ambassador called on partners to combine Ukrainian experience and capabilities with resources of the West to build resistance to aggressive tyrants. He called the Russian-Ukrainian war a “war of transition,” the experience of which will “determine the contours of the wars” of the 21st century.

Intellectual, political and a military unit. “He spoke not about small things, but about those categories that are understandable to the general apparatus of Western elites,” noted Oleg Sahakyan.

For Ukraine, Zaluzhny’s speech is definitely a strengthening. However, don't expect anything magical to happen because of one performance. There will be many more like this in the career of the Ukrainian ambassador to Great Britain.