️🇺🇦🇮🇷🇷🇺. President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky:
Now the whole world needs a different approach to security and defense, just as it happened after the First World War. Back in 2022, no one imagined there would be dead zones where cheap drones could wipe everything out.
Both people and military equipment, and today we can't even imagine how much drones and all other weapons may evolve as AI continues to advance and something else happened in the Middle East this year.
Something dangerous that changed the way we think about war. After the bombing of Iran began, the forces of the Iranian regime and their allies turned natural sea crossings into weapons against their neighbors and again the entire world.
Now the world is going through one of the worst cost of living crises, mainly because of the increase in energy prices after what happened in the Strait of Hormuz. And it's not just a few problems.
There are straits and seas in this world that are important not only to the people who live along their shores, but also to other nations, to hundreds, hundreds of millions of people in different parts of the world.
Russia's blockade of the Black Sea has caused suffering far beyond Ukraine, from Egypt to countries in South Asia. And what if Russia tries to do the same in the Baltic Sea? in the Baltic Sea.
What if someone tries to repeat what happened in the Strait of Hormuz, this time in shipping lanes and other major straits around the world. And who will protect European interests?