Leftist MEPs demand from Orbán the complete Russian energy embargo - while we are not even in the top 20 on the list of countries doing business with Moscow.
No less than forty-four brave and steadfast members of the European Parliament stood up to Viktor Orbán the other day, demanding in an open letter, or, if you like, a petition, that the Hungarian Prime Minister be on the good side of history.
They think he is on the wrong side right now. By voting for six sanctions packages against Russia so far, our country has helped more than 800,000 Ukrainian refugees, and the government has firmly condemned Putin's aggression - not to mention the president of the republic, who is even more harsh. However, this seems to be insufficient for the "good side".
Because - as they say - Orbán fought to the end in order to be exempted from the oil embargo, so
Hungary will continue to finance the war crimes of the Russian army.
"We ask you to act like a real European," the very humane politicians are telling the Hungarian Prime Minister. Hesteg is a good man.
We can record it again: the representatives of Brussels have left home. Even Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was able to understand that, in the case of Hungary, the entire Russian oil embargo would be equal to the total, immediate zeroing of the economy and society. Collapse, starvation, cataclysm. Since it is technically not possible (for now) to import a sufficient quantity of crude oil from elsewhere and of a different type, if we do not buy from the Russians, we will end up with noble simplicity. According to the very enlightened, "good sided" EP representatives, this would be the correct behavior, that is, on Orbán's part - as if the consequences would only affect him, and not ten million EU and Hungarian citizens.
It's that they don't understand.
They still do not understand that the responsibility of a given Prime Minister extends primarily to the population of his own country,
and not a few good-hearted Brussels freebies have to comply. The domestic left is there for that, and we see what kind of political success is combined with thoughtless servility. Furthermore, the sanctions do not hurt Russia or Putin, but, according to the current situation, rather Europe.
Let's make it clear: Orbán is actually on the good side of history when, for the sake of those entrusted to him, he does not support ideas that go against common sense, even if Zelensky or Bono, who intend to plunge the whole world into war, want it. In fact, he demands it. It's as if Europe's leaders have become deserving pop stars - they play for the audience, not for the audience.
As for the financing of the Russian army: according to data
our country does not even enter the top 20 in the list of states that import fossil energy carriers from Russia.
After China, however, Germany is in second place, but Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Belgium, Austria, Romania and even Slovakia acquire a considerable amount. If anyone, these countries finance Putin's unjust war much more than Hungary, which has been declared the scapegoat. Let's note: they probably don't do it in a good mood either, or they did it this way.
It's a strange coincidence, especially as far as the wording is concerned, that at the same time US President Joe Biden is also protecting Chinese leader Xi Jinping from getting on the wrong side of history. This will be the case if Beijing and Moscow continue to get closer. Without waiting for an answer, we ask: is anyone surprised that these two parties found each other?
Perhaps only the aforementioned forty-four can seriously think, or perhaps not even they, that China is deeply affected by Russian military maneuvers even for a minute, already in terms of human rights, of course. In addition, the quoted data show that this doesn't excite others as much anyway, and this statement is especially valid for the interest-driven American foreign policy.
Washington's interest is obvious: to separate Russia from Europe, and especially from Germany,
even at the price of pushing Putin, who is thus forced into new markets and allies, into the arms of the increasingly powerful Asian giant.
The good and bad sides of history are nothing more than eye-rolling slogans after all this. Especially in light of the fact that the Hungarian Prime Minister, who was "exiled" by the progressives to the latter half of the world, actually asserts the interests of those entrusted to him and helps the truly needy, while refusing to support the escalation of the armed conflict as a pacifist.
So don't hold others accountable for making false moral decisions that they haven't (fully) undertaken.
Among other things, the Fidesz-KDNP received the fourth two-thirds social mandate in a row because Orbán first "behaves" as a Hungarian, only then as a European - whatever this last, resounding clause might mean. In addition, Hungarians do not kneel in penance for the centuries-old sins of others, which gives us a bad reputation in the ultra-liberal Western mainstream, but corresponds to a strategy of common sense.
Opening image: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi (b) and French President Emmanuel Macron at the end of the press conference held with Romanian President Klaus Iohannis, Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Kyiv on June 16, 2022. Draghi, Macron and Scholz traveled together to the Ukrainian capital to discuss aid to the country under Russian military attack. MTI/EPA/AFP pool/Ludovic Marin
