Prime Minister Viktor Orbán also speaks in Tucker Carlson's new film.
As reported by Mandiner , the American TV host Tucker Carlson made a documentary about the struggle between George Soros and the Hungarian government. The film presents the migration and LGBTQ propaganda methods of the Soros network, during which the Fox News presenter talks to Viktor Orbán, Rod Dreher and Katalin Novák, among others, about why the stock speculator is afraid of the national values represented by the current Hungarian government.
This is not the first time that Tucker Carlson deals with our country. It is known: the host visited the Hungarian border in August 2021, a front-page interview to Mandiner, and Viktor Orbán gave an interview to Tucker Carlson, which a viewership record .
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Below you can read the previous coverage of the interview, and at the end you can watch the entire conversation on video:
In the conversation, conducted in English without an interpreter, the host raised the question: why was our country the only European country to stand up against migration in 2015, when hundreds of thousands appeared at the southern border? The other member states welcomed the arrivals, Hungary said no, Carlson recalled.
"It was the only reasonable course of action. If someone crosses your border without any permission from the Hungarian state,
you have to defend your country and say stop”
said the Prime Minister.
"It comes from God, from nature, and so all arguments are on our side. Because this is our country. This is our population, our history, our language. And so we must act. Of course, if someone is in trouble and there is no one closer than the Hungarians, then you have to help. But no one can simply say "okay, this is a nice country, we want to come here and live here because life is better here". It is not a human right for someone to come here. This is out of the question, because this is our homeland, our country. This is a nation, a community, our families, our history, our tradition, our language," Viktor Orbán said.
Carlson commented that this was probably obvious to most viewers, but rather scandalous for many Western European countries and leaders.
According to Viktor Orbán, many European countries have decided to open a new chapter in their own history, it is called a post-Christian, post-national society. But mixing a large Muslim community with the indigenous people is risky, and there is clearly a high chance that nothing good will come of it. Every nation has the right to accept or reject this risk. The Hungarians decided not to take this risk - reminded the Prime Minister, who said that this is why they attacked Hungary so harshly.
"They labeled our decision immoral, semi-fascist, retrograde, and all kinds of negative adjectives. But my heart dictated it. I'm Hungarian, I have obligations, I'm an elected leader, and I have to explain to people what the long-term consequences of a step that seems so nice now can be," the prime minister emphasized.
Carlson also pointed out that Angela Merkel made the decision six years ago to allow hundreds of thousands of immigrants into her country, and the question is what effect this had on Germany. “This is their life. I would not qualify the consequences of this decision.
However, I insist that Hungarians have the right to their own choice"
he said.
Quoting György Soros, the presenter said: Hungary decided to preserve its territorial integrity, protect its borders, and thus prevented refugees from settling here. "We think exactly the opposite about this. We believe that the right of refugees to settle in another country is more important than natural borders," emphasized Carlson.
The Prime Minister said of Soros that he "embodies everything that is not good for this country". According to him, Soros is the kind of person who does not respect the traditions of this country, he has a philosophical ideology called "Conviction" and wants to force us to follow the path he has set out for us to change our lives. As for migration.
So they attacked you because you resisted his attempt to influence the country, Carlson suggested.
"It was foreseeable that this would happen.
I know the bureaucrats in Brussels. They love the global approach, they don't like national identity,
they think that national identity is something rotten. The future belongs to the new federalist line, which represents a higher moral standard, and they know better where history is going. This is the left-wing, liberal, progressive view of life in Brussels. Therefore, I was sure that if we questioned the basic intellectual or ideological foundations, they would immediately strike back. And that's exactly what happened. But we knew it would. On the topic of gender, on migration, on the topic of building a work-based society instead of a welfare society, on the topic of taxes, in other words, in the case of any topic on which our ideas do not exactly coincide with the ideas of the Brussels bureaucrats regarding the progressive future, they immediately criticize us . But this is the Hungarian way of life. We are not surprised, we are used to it," explained the Prime Minister.
US President Joe Biden was also mentioned in the interview. Carlson recalled that thirty years ago, Orbán appeared as a hero in the eyes of many in the United States, because he was one of the leaders of those fighting against the Soviet occupation. However, the other day, Biden called the prime minister a totalitarian thug. "They see what is happening in Belarus, Poland and Hungary. Totalitarian regimes are on the rise in the world," Biden said before the presidential election last November. "Our current president supports all the thugs in the world," he added.
Orbán responded to this by saying that Biden does not speak Hungarian, so he cannot really know Hungary and cannot understand the issues in question when he makes comments such as, for example, that a "totalitarian regime" is on the rise in Hungary.
"Someone who does not speak our language and has very limited knowledge of Hungary, even of our past few decades, obviously cannot understand the situation of the Hungarians, but this extreme opinion is not justified either. You know, this statement in itself is a personal insult to all Hungarians," said the Prime Minister, who said that good American-Hungarian relations are our value.
He also touched on the fact that left-wing politicians like Biden cannot imagine a nationalist or conservative alternative ideology.
Western liberals cannot accept that there is a conservative national alternative within Western civilization that is more successful on a daily basis. That's why they criticize us.
They are fighting for themselves, not against us. But we show an example that a country that is based on traditional values, national identity, and the tradition of Christianity can be successful - sometimes more successful than a left-liberal government," Orbán declared.
Carlson noted that as an American, it is interesting to see how Orbán is opposed by the American media, the Biden administration and the Washington State Department, while his opponent is a coalition of former communists and anti-Semites. "Is it strange to find that the American left is pushing for a coalition that includes anti-Semites?" - asked.
The prime minister said that if he was asked the question years ago, "could it happen that the former communist political forces enter into a coalition with the anti-Semitic right and run together in the elections with a pro-Israel, pro-American, pro-NATO, pro-Western against a government with an orientation like ours, my answer would have been that it is impossible".
But now this has also been accepted by the international community. "I understand that the opposition parties want to come to power in Hungary as soon as possible and are therefore trying to create a broad coalition against the government side. Even so, I am surprised that the international community accepted this so easily. In particular, the behavior of the USA is a new experience for me," he noted. According to Viktor Orbán, however, the international left will do everything to ensure that there is a change of government in Hungary next year.
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