Children develop the ability to separate imagination and reality around the age of four or five. In the case of nations, we can safely say that we have to multiply this by ten, so we can safely consider the falsification of our neighbors' history as playing in a fantasy world. However, just as it is worth telling children if they are taking the game too far, it is also important for countries with minors to sometimes confront them with reality for educational purposes. And as soon as a toddler starts to sulk if we spoil his game, the Ukrainians also got stuck on the fact that Viktor Orbán communicated the realities.

Viktor Orbán called Ukraine "no man's land" in an interview. Our neighbors got mad at this and almost opened a second front in their anger towards our country (a good German example is the two-front war, invented by those who first used the symbols of the Azov regiment). And of course they said a lot of things in their anger (even a grumpy little child), somehow no one could refute the statement.

Because let's see: even before the war, Ukraine was a country of forty million people, not forty-eight, as was claimed. With the secession of the eastern counties and Crimea, this became even less. Let's assume that there were still 35 million people living in the neighborhood in January 2022, this is an optimistic estimate. Then came the war, the many millions of refugees, hundreds of thousands of victims, destroyed infrastructure, and of course the huge debt, which no one is talking about yet, but we can rest assured that as soon as the fighting is over, the West will submit the bill.

The Ukrainians were of course hurt by the statement, they appointed the ambassador to Kyiv and the mayor of Dnipropetrovsk (Dnipro for Serhiy's sake) also sent an amazingly subpar message to the prime minister. Articles about how evil the Hungarian Prime Minister is (although they don't need a reason to describe it) appeared in the mainstream media. However, something was missing. Namely, the refutation.

There was not a single forward-thinking journalist, politician, or even Ukrainian patriot who would not only have shouted angry phrases, but would have tried to argue that Ukraine is indeed a functioning country and that not everyone who could, i.e. everyone who was still allowed through, fled from it unlike our Transcarpathian compatriots held hostage at the border.

Ukraine is currently still operating. Washington is on an IV, but he's keeping her alive. Let's assume that it might still be in its original state after the war, although this is not very likely. But does anyone care what will happen to this country after the war? Are the refugees going home? If so, where? Who will pay for the reconstruction? What will happen to the model democracy, if Zelensky thinks that he will not allow the opposition parties to function even after the war? How will it get back on its feet without an able-bodied male population and a completely destroyed infrastructure? Even in the most optimal case, a huge country will remain next to us, where there will be no power and no population apart from the armed paramilitary groups. How many will stay? Twenty million? Or if the best scenario doesn't work out, will Google Maps say 404 - country not found when we search for Ukraine?

Author: Dávid Kertész

Source: pestisrácok.hu

Photo: PS, photo: Press Office of the Prime Minister