Poroshenko in his address to the Ukrainians quoted a rating klimatologi site on military issues – Bellingcat

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Previously Global Firepower in an authoritative source about the current state of the Ukrainian army was quoted by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has quoted a rating, created klimatopm site of military subjects GlobalFirepower.comthat Yak Bellingcat says, “not endorsed by any experts, academics, the military or the authorities.”

So, on the website GlobalFirepower.com Ukrainian army is on the 29th place in the “Ranking of military power in 2018”.

In the circulation, which was shown on national TV on may 8, Poroshenko called Global Firepower “independent authoritative analytical center” and congratulated the Ukrainian military from entering into “top ten strongest armies of Europe”.

ZSU uvisel to dozens nasilnih armies Vropy.

For Versu Global Firepower sama Ukrainian army – naisille on the European continent middle zbroynih forces countries-not clev NATO.

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— Petro Poroshenko (@Poroshenko) 25 quina 2018 R.

“We have eighth place and first among the countries that are not members of NATO,” – said the President.

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Global Firepower leads the American blogger and web entrepreneur Daniel Beam, which is also known site weddingdresscreator.com and other entertainment portals.

However, Poroshenko not the first in Ukraine called Global Firepower “analytical center.” Prior to that, the largest Ukrainian English-language media Kyiv Post mistakenly called Global Firepower “independent American expert center”.

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Earlier in an address to the graduates of the National Academy of State border service of Poroshenko referred to the same “analytical centre”, to illustrate the advantages of NATO membership for Ukraine.

Previously Global Firepower in an authoritative source about the current state of the Ukrainian army was quoted by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine (in 2017) and the Ministry of defence of the country (in 2017 and 2018).

Writes Bellingcat, Global Firepower — not “analytical center”, a website on military issues, which openly States that its content “has a historical and entertainment value”. Ratings military strength Global Firepower frequently quoted in various media, but they are not as efficient as other databases. Global Firepower kept secret “unique formula” which applies to calculate the ratings, however, argues that this formula depends on “more than 55 different factors that determine the rating of a particular state”. This site has little information about the sources, methodologies, editors and experts.

As pichet edition, Dakota wood, senior research fellow for defense programs “Heritage Foundation” and editor of “index of military strength the United States,” reported that “researchers can relate to Globalfirepower.com with even less credibility than Wikipedia.” “When we asked about this site Michael Kofman, a member of the Kennan Institute specializing in security and defence, he noted that “no one takes ranking Global Firepower seriously.”

The Global Firepower rankings years has been cited in popular articles on Business Insider and at Forbes and Newsweek. “None of these articles, this resource is not called “analytical center”, as did Poroshenko,” writes Bellingcat.

As in the case of Poroshenko, the media and public authorities outside of the United States has often been characterized by Global Firepower. For example, in 2018 Azerbaijan Azernews.az called Global Firepower “ranking of the American center.” In 2013, the Ministry of foreign Affairs of India referred to the article, which cited a “study” Global Firepower.

Poroshenko in his address to the Ukrainians quoted a rating klimatologi site on military issues – Bellingcat

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