Russia cannot win, because the entire Western world has lined up behind Ukraine. And Russia is a nuclear power, and a nuclear power cannot be pushed into a corner, because it could start a nuclear war, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stated on Wednesday in Balatonfüred, according to a report published in the online edition of Magyar Nemzet.
It was written that the Prime Minister, the President of Fidesz, addressed the members of the Fidesz-KDNP faction alliance in Balatonfüred on Wednesday before the upcoming spring session of the Parliament, after his annual review speech on Saturday, and in his speech he laid "clear, clear foundations" for the next period.
According to the article, Viktor Orbán told the faction members that at the three-day meeting in Sopron, the government discussed whether the Hungarian attitude to the war should be changed, and the government came to the decision that it should not, because the Hungarian national interest still requires it. wishes the country to stay out of this war.
This is what the Hungarian people decided in April: we will not deliver weapons, we will not join any war coalition
- said the Prime Minister, according to the report.
According to Magyar Nemzet, Viktor Orbán emphasized in his speech:
we are not rooting for anyone because this war cannot have a winner.
“In his opinion
Russia cannot win, because the entire Western world has lined up behind Ukraine. And Russia is a nuclear power, and a nuclear power cannot be pushed into a corner, because it could start a nuclear war"
- can be read in the article.
The newspaper reported that the prime minister reaffirmed that the only morally correct position in the war is the Fidesz-KDNP position, because lives can only be saved with a ceasefire and peace, so a ceasefire and peace negotiations are needed immediately.
According to Viktor Orbán's assessment
Europe has been weakened over the past year because the Biden administration is advancing its interests in Brussels at the expense of European interests.
The responses to the war, the "sanctions tsunami" began to weaken the European economy, while America, which is rich in cheap energy, was not affected at all, the prime minister was quoted as saying.
According to the report, the Prime Minister finally spoke about how
the military power of Europe also began to weaken, because the war reduced the stocks of the European armies, but they did not take care of their replacement.
In the article, it was summarized as follows: According to Viktor Orbán, Europe lost its independence, economic and military power in just one year. In this situation, Hungary must represent its own interests, because then it can come out of the war period unscathed and strengthened.
They added that, according to the prime minister, three things must be done for this:
Hungary's independence must be defended, which means defending the pro-peace position against the Biden administration and Brussels. The second point cited was that the strength of the Hungarian economy must be preserved, a war must be waged against inflation, jobs and families must be protected, as well as the elderly and those living off work. As the third point, the article referred to the need to strengthen Hungary's military power, "because peace requires strength."
It was also reported that Viktor Orbán confirmed in his speech: inflation was unleashed by Brussels on Europe, including Hungary.
"The name of the disease is sanctioned inflation, and the virus is the Brussels sanction. The sanctions were aimed at Russia, but they hit Europe"
- stated the Prime Minister according to the article.
He continued: Russia and Western multinationals made a lot of money from the sanctioned inflation, as in 2022, according to forecasts, the profit of the world's oil and gas industry increased from 500 billion to 834 billion dollars.
Viktor Orbán made it clear in his speech that
extra profit appears at domestic energy companies, banks, retail outlets, and pharmaceutical companies. The utility protection fund is from this money, from which they can maintain the reduced utility prices up to the average consumption
- wrote the paper, according to whose information the Prime Minister stated: "we do not passively watch the creation of extra profit, we take it and give it back to the people".
Referring to the start of the political season, it was reported that: in his speech, Viktor Orbán called Fidesz-KDNP's opponents "the pro-war international interest groups, which consist of the Biden administration, the pro-war Brussels bureaucrats and pro-war politicians, the dollar left led by Gyurcsány, which, according to Viktor Orbán, was bought by the pound, and they only do what their clients ask”. And as a third group, he named the international speculators who want to profit in times of war.
The prime minister concluded his speech by saying that they could not break the Fidesz-KDNP alliance in recent years because their hearts were in the right place. "According to his words, he expects his fellow representatives in 2023 to do the same: diligence, team spirit and courage," wrote Magyar Nemzet.
Source: MTI
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