Perspective: Speed Kills…

Below is a powerful excerpt from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s speech at the 2026 Munich Security Conference.

Bottom line: what the world needs, what people need, is speed. Speed of action from the rest of the world. The current system (or lack thereof) is too slow. People die while politicians and institutions deliberate and argue and hedge their bets.

Maybe the end of the current global order is a good thing.

“Today, the people of Iran expect from the world what we in Ukraine needed on February 24, when the Russian invasion began – unity, determination, and speed. Of course, speed. Speed in support. And regimes like the one in Iran must not be given time. When they have time, they only kill more. They must be stopped immediately. And this is exactly what should have happened with the Ayatollah – after all the wars his regime unleashed and all the lives it took – and with Putin as well: after the war in Georgia, after Syria, after 2014 and the occupation of Crimea.”

— Ali Omur for GP