Putin’s Munich Speech 15 Years Later: What ‘Prophecies’ Have Come True?

Fifteen years ago today, on February 10, 2007 Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed the Munich Security Conference.

He delivered remarks, a 30 minute long speech that was instantly interpreted as the harshest-ever manifesto since the Cold War era, but Putin himself does not believe that he went too far back then in any respect.

• NATO’s expansion,
• a unipolar world,
• disarmament problems,
• the erosion of the OSCE as an institution,
• the Iranian nuclear problem
• Europe’s energy security

Summarized hereunder Putin’s warnings and prophecies from his Munich speech that have come true probably because nobody turned an attentive ear to them.