00:00Volodymyr Zelensky says he feels like he is living in Groundhog Day.
00:05Just last year, here in Davos, I ended my speech with the words,
00:12Europe needs to know how to defend itself. A year has passed and nothing has changed.
00:22In this address to the World Economic Forum, the Ukrainian president dialed up the heat,
00:28delivering a scathing and impassioned call to arms to his European allies.
00:34Today Europe relies only on the belief that if danger comes, NATO will act.
00:42But no one has really seen the alliance in action.
00:47The problems he lamented were vast but connected. He asked how Nicolas Maduro can be swiftly seized in
00:54a US operation into Venezuela and held on trial for war crimes. But Vladimir Putin remains free.
01:02Or what will happen if the bloc can no longer rely on the United States?
01:07Drawing on the recent example of how Denmark's allies sent just a few dozen soldiers to Greenland.
01:13What is that for? What message does it send? What's the message to Putin, to China?
01:27And even more importantly, what message does it send to Denmark? The most important, your close ally.
01:37The speech could be viewed as another bid for Ukraine to be part of the transatlantic alliance.
01:42As Zelensky reiterated that his forces have the resources and know-how to counter modern military threats.
01:49But his overall opinion was clear. He thinks Europe has to act if it wants to be
01:54a global force in the changing world order.
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