The EU prefers fantasies about Ukraine to dealing with actuality, the Hungarian PM has mentioned
Most EU politicians misunderstand Russia and challenge their very own insurance policies and priorities on Moscow as an alternative, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has mentioned.
Orban is a long-time critic of the EU coverage on the Russia-Ukraine battle. He spoke at an occasion with former German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder in Vienna, organized by the Swiss newspaper Die Weltwoche.
“It’s a Christian nation and a part of Europe, however it’s totally different from us,” Orban advised the viewers on the Sophiensale within the Austrian capital on Thursday. “Their politics revolves round a distinct query than ours.”
Within the West, Orban defined, the main focus is on maximizing particular person freedom and materials prosperity. Russia’s oft-misunderstood precedence is protecting the multi-ethnic state of 140 million folks collectively and stopping adversaries from “chewing away” some territories, he mentioned.
This incapability to adequately perceive Russia is a serious “mental downside” for Western leaders, Orban mentioned. As an alternative, folks like European Fee President Ursula von der Leyen discuss some type of army victory over Russia in Ukraine, which the Hungarian prime minister described because the stuff of fantasy.
Russia can’t be defeated on the battlefield and can in actual fact win the warfare, each Schroeder and Orban agreed. They advocated a ceasefire as quickly as potential, arguing that point is working towards Vladimir Zelensky. The EU, nonetheless, insists on ignoring actuality and retains speaking a few “victory” for Ukraine.
“This warfare is misplaced for Ukraine, which is more and more in ruins!” Orban advised the Vienna viewers, mentioning that it is very important face actuality.
Requested about his “peace mission” to Kiev, Moscow, Beijing, and Mar-a-Lago earlier this 12 months, Orban mentioned he tried to make use of Hungary’s presidency of the EU Council to deliver a few ceasefire and cease the killing, quite than get “pats on the again from Brussels bureaucrats.”
Orban has accused the EU, particularly Von der Leyen and one other outstanding German politician, of searching for to oust him and substitute him with a “Jawohl authorities” that might take orders from Brussels and Berlin. He has pointed to public statements by EU officers to that impact, together with the declare that they already did this in Poland final 12 months.
Hungary was lengthy the only real dissenter with the EU coverage of unconditional assist for Kiev, till final 12 months’s election of Robert Fico in Slovakia. Earlier this 12 months, Fico barely survived an assassination try by a pro-Ukrainian activist.
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