They want to force Hungary into war, and they are not selective in their means, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told the Swiss weekly Weltwoche, stressing that "Hungary's political leadership is strong enough to keep our country away from war," Magyar Nemzet reported. We will look at this.

 

In the issue of the newspaper published on Thursday, when asked how Hungary is coping with the war in Ukraine, the prime minister stated: "we are mostly affected by the EU sanctions against Russia", which have driven up the price of oil and gas.

Hungary has recently made huge progress in the field of industry, the energy needed for this needs to be imported - Viktor Orbán pointed out, also indicating that this cost the country 7 billion euros in 2021, and in 2022 this amount will already be 17 billion euros volt.

The Prime Minister stated that the war "burdens our souls and psyches". "Ukraine is our neighbor, where Hungarians also live. They are called up as soldiers and they die by the hundreds on the front," he added, emphasizing that this war "is not far from us", which is why everyone wants peace in Hungary.

"We pray and trust in the Good Lord that he will make the warring parties recognize each other. We are under constant pressure. They want to force us into war, and they are not selective in their means. So far we have managed to resist. That gives me hope. Hungary's political leadership is strong enough to keep our country away from war. I state this with sufficient humility, but at the same time with confidence"

- said Viktor Orbán, also emphasizing that he considers Christian teaching to be valid in politics as well.

In response to a question, the Prime Minister called it the most important realization of the war in Ukraine that "today Europe withdrew from the discussion". "In the decisions made in Brussels, I recognize the American interests more often than the European ones," he added, also referring to the fact that "today the Americans have the last word" in the war taking place in Europe.

He continued: "we do not know a European identity either emotionally or intellectually". According to his formulation, "if we had continued the debate about the future of Europe seriously, without taboos (...), we probably would have had a solid self-image already at the beginning of the war." The prime minister also called it bad luck that Donald Trump lost the US presidential election, because if the former Republican president had won the election, "there would not have been a war." At this point, Viktor Orbán also noted that the change of government in Germany "had its toll".

The prime minister agreed with the journalist's suggestion that the deeper reason for Europe's weakness is to be found in the European Union, because it "disintegrates nation-states without putting anything workable in their place."

Speaking about the creation of peace, he stated that "peace begins in the heart, it must reach the head, which then leads the hand."

"This is the sequence: you have to wish for peace, then you have to want it, then you have to create it. Today, the will is lacking, at least in the West," he added, then talked about how the Chinese, Indians, Arabs, Turks, and Brazilians want peace.

"The West has lost its ability to unite the world for a cause. Its philosophical tenets are limited in space. This is a new phenomenon," he pointed out.

Viktor Orbán formulated Hungary's role in peacemaking as follows: "if our friends and allies want to give up the war stance, they must see an alternative".

When asked by journalists what should happen in the United States, whether politics can change, Viktor Orbán called the Hungarian experience clear. "When the Democrats are in power in Washington, we run for cover. They always want to change us, just like the politicians in Brussels. They want to dictate to us how to handle migration and how to teach our children. This is disrespectful," he said.

We are a successful country and we are doing our bit for Europe. We are the defenders of the castles on the edge of the continent. This work is not recognized. That is why we are waiting for our republican friends to come back to power, said the Prime Minister.

In response to the statements of the prime minister's interlocutor that "the preachers of globalization and free trade who meet every year at the World Economic Forum in Davos" have a new gospel: "the reorganization of globalization", in which "we are the good, they are the bad", Viktor Orbán noted that this is serious represents a danger for Hungary. "We are an export-oriented country. 85 percent of our gross domestic product comes from exports. We have important cultural and economic relations in the East. The reorganization would be fatal for Hungary. But I think also for Germany," he said.

Returning to Switzerland, the Prime Minister called the Alpine country "the way it wants to be but not isolated" to be important. "So preserving one's own identity does not necessarily lead to provincialism."

"Switzerland is an important positive example", said Viktor Orbán, who continued: if Hungary were where Switzerland is, then "we would also be neutral". “This is Swiss luxury. It doesn't work for us," he said.

In response to a question, the prime minister called the deterioration of public security and terrorism in the short term the greatest danger inherent in uncontrolled immigration. "In the medium term: in economic losses. In the long term: that people no longer recognize their own country, that they lose their own homeland," he said.

Viktor Orbán identified the greatest danger inherent in gender ideology as the fact that children between the ages of 14 and 18 must "grow into the world". “During this period, their identity should be strengthened, not weakened and destabilized, as gender ideologues do. This is because they are ruining our children. Irrevocably, irreversibly. They have no right to do that," the Prime Minister underlined.

He then went on to say that there is a good manual written by former Bavarian Prime Minister Edmund Stoiber, in which Stoiber describes how the EU could be reorganized on the basis of subsidiarity.

"It's not the knowledge that's lacking, but the intention," said Viktor Orbán, and he argued for the necessity that "all the powers that the EU ascribed to itself without the authorization of the member states must be returned to the member states."

Source and full article: Magyar Nemzet

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