A well-known American conservative analyst expressed an opinion in line with the position of the Hungarian government.
"Russia is profiting from its war against Ukraine, while the West's adversaries are gaining economic and global dominance," warned Shea Bradley-Farrell, president of the American Counterpoint Institute for Policy, Research and Education (CIPRE), in an article published on The Washington Times portal ), who also participated in the CPAC Hungary conference in Budapest in May.
"American warlords and like-minded ideologues of the European Union made possible the war that is destroying Ukraine, while its leadership poses artistically for Vogue," said Bradley-Farrell, recalling the photos of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi and his wife in the American fashion magazine. He reminded: meanwhile, EU citizens are preparing for a cold, dark winter.
According to Shea Bradley-Farrell, "even if Ukrainian soldiers have won a tactical territorial victory, the Russian military will never simply pack up and go home ," as it did from Crimea.
The head of the American think tank drew attention to the fact that Russia is making record profits due to rising energy prices.
"For anyone paying attention, Putin's use of energy as a weapon of war was a foreshadowing of how effective Western sanctions would be," he noted.
He explained that China is also profiting from the war, among other things, it receives Russian natural gas at a cheaper price and has also concluded a long-term agreement with Moscow on crude oil. Beijing "gets the energy resources necessary to realize its dream of economic hegemony over the US," he warned. According to the author, Washington may be even more worried about the emerging Russian-Chinese superpower alliance.
According to Bradley-Farrell, the ineffectiveness of Western sanctions could be foreseen, on the one hand, because the Russian army is superior and the West, despite expressing its solidarity, does not send the Ukrainians enough weapons to win, and on the other hand, because Europe depends on Russian energy.
"There will be no peace in Ukraine until the US and Russia sit down face to face and negotiate the specific terms of a peace treaty," he concluded.
The position of the American analyst is in line with the opinion expressed by the Hungarian government in recent months. Prime Minister Viktor Orbán urged Russian-American peace talks in Tusványos, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó called attention to the counterproductive nature of EU sanctions numerous times, most recently in the UN General Assembly, and Balázs Orbán, the political director of the Prime Minister, spoke at the Conservative Summit in Bratislava about the fact that China and The United States can win the war, but Europe can only lose.
Source: Demokrata.hu
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