You don't have to wait for anyone, it's our job to take care of the refugees - Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stated on Kossuth radio Good morning, Hungary! in his show.
According to the Prime Minister, if we were to wait for Brussels, serious situations would develop at the border, because if they can talk, but if it is a question of action, then the nation states can be counted on.
"I don't know (...) what the hell they are doing in Brussels, what they are waiting for, and when they will give money to anyone," said Viktor Orbán.
According to him, "this is our matter", "our problem", "our problem" and Hungary will solve it. He added that if support comes from Brussels along the way, they will be grateful, but we have been protecting the southern border for years without any financial contribution.
Viktor Orbán also said in the morning show:
70-80 percent of those who come here move on, but those who stay here have to organize their future.
Their accommodation, their food, their health care, their transportation to work and, in a few months, the children's education.
Based on the Prime Minister's statement, everyone who is accepted by Hungary will be treated in the same way as Hungarians, they will receive benefits for three months, just like Hungarian unemployed people, but just as Hungarians must go to public work or market work after three months, so it will not be the same for foreigners who come here.
He drew attention to the fact that if Transcarpathia were to become a military area, the number of people coming from there would suddenly increase many times over. He said that those coming from third countries - such as Chinese, Nigerian and Indian students - will be transported to Budapest, and from there they will return to their own country by plane.
According to him, NATO will protect us if we are ready to protect ourselves. Viktor Orbán highlighted that if a country wants peace, it must have some kind of strength, and this strength can come from two sources: its own strength and that of its allies.
"If you don't have your own strength, you don't have allies either, because no one will risk their lives and sacrifice their money to protect you, while you weren't prepared to defend yourself," said Viktor Orbán. That is why Hungary had to start military development a few years ago, he continued. There was also a discussion about this, but "we have to be rock solid here", because if the country does not start preparing for such a conflict in time, the lost years cannot be made up later. The development of a military industry "takes many long years", added the Prime Minister.
Based on what he said, "we have concrete-strength security", no harm can come to Hungary, we are strong enough that our allies can guarantee Hungary's security together.
In one case, it could be a problem if we "lose our common sense and drift into this war", because "there is no NATO that can protect us from our own foolishness and stupidity", said the prime minister.
The prime minister sees that the Hungarian left is on the "side of the war", so their proposals to drag Hungary into the war must be firmly opposed.
Sending a soldier means that we will be part of a war, sending a weapon means that we will be the enemy of the person against whom that weapon is used, for "good God knows exactly how many years", to transfer weapons in the territory of Hungary and turn it into a military target in Transcarpathia convoy in a place where there is not even a war, means that we took it there, we "provoked" the war there, he said.
He believes that in such a turbulent situation, strategic calm is needed, "you have to be sensible", you cannot talk cross-talk and "do our Western friends a favor" with one statement after another. He stated that this conflict should not be viewed through American, French or German lenses, but through Hungarian eyes, because
the most important thing is the peace and security of Hungarians.
Viktor Orbán condemned the left-wing statement that the Transcarpathian Hungarians are pro-Russian and described it as a "denunciation made in wartime", as this brings the most immediate danger to the heads of the Transcarpathian Hungarians.
He said that even though there is an election campaign, the government has "imposed the direction"
that the national interest and the security of the Hungarians should always be the consideration, not the campaign.
Speaking about the sanctions against Russia, he explained: those who are close to the war zone suffer the most, so primarily the Baltics, Poles, Slovaks, Hungarians and Romanians. They are trying to mitigate the direct damage caused by the sanctions - the bankruptcy of Sberbank, the rise in energy prices, the rise in inflation - but the medium-term danger that the performance of the European economy will be lower than expected must also be dealt with. The longer the war drags on, the more trouble we have to deal with, so it is right that Hungary is pro-peace, he emphasized.
The prime minister also noted about the coronavirus epidemic: the fifth wave has been overcome, the situation is encouraging, it is possible that this wave was the last, but experts are constantly monitoring whether there will be a sixth.
Source: vasarnap.hu/(MTI)
Featured image: Facebook/Viktor Orbán
