{"id":1301832,"date":"2025-10-05T15:53:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T12:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/poroshenko-met-with-young-activists-he-spoke-about-war-victory-and-the-dangers-of-populism\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T15:53:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T12:53:11","slug":"poroshenko-met-with-young-activists-he-spoke-about-war-victory-and-the-dangers-of-populism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/poroshenko-met-with-young-activists-he-spoke-about-war-victory-and-the-dangers-of-populism\/","title":{"rendered":"Poroshenko met with young activists: he spoke about war, victory, and the dangers of populism."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Petro Poroshenko met with young activists in Ivano-Frankivsk. During the conversation, the young people asked about the war, victory, and the future, as well as whether Ukraine would lose the support of its European partners. After all, an increasing number of voters in Europe are supporting right-wing parties and populists.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> &#8220;I definitely see the threat of a shift in priorities. What is populism? Populism is a strategy of simple solutions. You don&#8217;t have to work, you don&#8217;t have to worry, you don&#8217;t have to think. Enough\u2014spring will come, we&#8217;ll put everyone in jail. Spring will come, the era of poverty will end, because someone in Ukraine is profiting from it. That&#8217;s populism. We know it very well.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;The danger of populism is very great. Populists assume that no one will think. Those who don&#8217;t think should vote for populists. There are no difficult decisions, no tension, no tears, sweat, and blood. There are a billion trees, a tablet for every grandmother, and pension and social benefits are being raised from who knows where.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\ud83d\ude31 WHAT DID POROSHENKO ASK YOUNG PEOPLE IN IVANO-FRANKIVSK?\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/meXfIayyvt4\" width=\"935\" height=\"526\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> But the country understood the danger of populism, and the populists failed. No need to think, no need to work. Just wait for Russian gas, and everything will be fine in Moldova.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;How can Europeans resist populism now? By not being fooled. And how can they not be fooled? By starting to think,&#8221; Poroshenko notes.<\/p>\n<p> He also warned young people against using Telegram as a source of information: &#8220;Because Telegram channels are linked to Russians, the FSB, and the potential for corresponding influence. I can note that, according to Ukrainian intelligence, 90% of the spies recruited by the Russian FSB were recruited through Telegram channels,&#8221; Poroshenko stated.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;The day before yesterday, the president awarded the Hero of Ukraine title to my brother in arms, my friend, the number two contender on the European Solidarity party list, the former speaker who stood by my side throughout my presidency, and former Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, Andriy Parubiy. He fully deserved it. And how was it earned? Are those who disclose coordinates for attacks to the Russian armed forces recruited? Through Telegram channels.<\/p>\n<p> He recalled that after 2014, the Russian social networks VKontakte and Odnoklassniki were banned in Ukraine, which stopped hostile propaganda.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;So today we must have independent sources of information. And this will allow us to effectively counter populism,&#8221; said Petro Poroshenko.<\/p>\n\t<div class=\"shortcode-wide-image\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_5940.jpeg\" alt=\"\">\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p> &#8220;To win, we need several things. First and foremost, we need victorious Ukrainian Armed Forces. Equipped, armed, motivated, and using the most modern technologies, including those being developed by my team,&#8221; Poroshenko said.<\/p>\n\t<div class=\"shortcode-wide-image\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_5941.jpeg\" alt=\"\">\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p> &#8220;The second component is global unity, our partners. So that there&#8217;s no other priority than helping Ukraine, because today every Ukrainian and our entire country defends Europe. It&#8217;s what stops Putin,&#8221; Poroshenko stated.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;We must achieve NATO and EU membership at any cost. Ignoring individual state leaders who say they don&#8217;t want Ukraine there. First and foremost, we want NATO and the EU. European and Euro-Atlantic integration isn&#8217;t just about blah-blah-blah, it&#8217;s about reforms. The first step is establishing the rule of law and an independent judiciary. These are the basic principles without which we won&#8217;t be welcome in Europe,&#8221; the fifth president noted. <\/p>\n<div class=\"full-post__content font-rules\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"full-post__content font-rules\">\n<p> Also follow <strong>&#8220;Pryamy&#8221;<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Petro Poroshenko met with young activists in Ivano-Frankivsk. During the conversation, the young people asked about the war, victory, and the future, as well as whether Ukraine would lose the support of its European partners. After all, an increasing number of voters in Europe are supporting right-wing parties and populists. &#8220;I definitely see the threat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":1301818,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76894],"class_list":["post-1301832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1301832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1301818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1301832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1301832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}