So it's no wonder that he runs from them only to make symbolic gestures - he said, among many other serious sentences, at the round table discussion of the Hungarian Foreign Ministry.

of the geopolitical workshop of the Mathias Corvinus Collegium recalled his conversation with an African official on Tuesday in Budapest. regional and global consequences of maritime escalation .

Attila Demkó added that, in the interpretation of African leaders, the economic dependence and indebtedness of the Third World on the West was only aggravated by the "teaching tone" coming from there, which they had not experienced from China until now.

In connection with the war in Gaza and Ukraine, China also sees an opportunity to communicate that the West as a world pole "looks bad today" because it cannot handle the crises that have developed on its periphery, while there is order and calm around the Chinese world pole; and the Russian narrative makes good use of the opportunity to talk about Israeli terror in Gaza with Western support. He added that the Yemeni Shia Houthis entered the Gaza conflict because of the unsolved Palestinian issue and consider their involvement as a "fight against Western imperialism". He pointed out that the United States, on the other hand,

it does try to keep the sources of crisis under control, but it does not focus its power, but breaks it into pieces, so it is less and less effective.

Sayfo Omar, a senior researcher at the Migration Research Institute, said that the Huzi tribal confederation, which controls the north-eastern part of Yemen, turned into a movement in the early 1990s. In 2014, the northern part of the country and the capital, Sana'a, were seized from the Yemeni government, weakened as a result of the Arab Spring. According to their own formulation, the Huzis are waging a defensive war against "the American and Israeli colonization of the Middle East" and alongside the Palestinians, because they consider the previously defeated Islamic State terrorist organization to be an American creation.

The expert added that although the Houthis and Iran belong to different sects of Shia Islam, their religious differences have been sidelined due to their common fight with the United States and Israel.

Tamás Baranyi, MKI's strategic director, said that the United States is wrong if it believes that it can achieve the end of the Huzi movement with a series of airstrikes, because "the Huzi are at home in the region" and they successfully survived the bombings years ago. He added that he sees the biggest problem in the fact that the consensus in American foreign policy has not only disappeared since the failed involvement in Iraq, but is also increasingly fragmented within the Democratic Party, so the Americans still cannot get out of their habit of

they are telling the Arab countries of the region, "behave well, because if you don't, we will strike."

Byrappa Ramachandra, MKI's leading researcher, drew attention to the fact that Egypt is the biggest loser of the escalation in the Red Sea, since the drop in traffic caused by the attacks on commercial ships in the 20th century significantly cut its income from the Suez Canal. This means a monthly loss of 80 million dollars (HUF 28.8 billion) and may even lead to state bankruptcy. In his opinion, the Egyptian leadership is perhaps quiet about the escalation because they could have promised him money in the event that he would let the Palestinians who fled the Gaza Strip into his territory.

MKI researcher Hanga Horváth-Sántha, who also played the role of moderator, added to this that Egypt is facing a difficult decision because, if they let in the Palestinian refugees, they would be considered "traitors yielding to Israeli pressure" in the Arab world if they are not allowed in. , then they can also be accused of violating international humanitarian law. The participants of the conversation were in complete agreement that the European Union is watching the escalation of the Gaza conflict helplessly in the Red Sea, because it has no foreign policy and settlement strategy, so it is not sovereign. According to Tamás Baranyi

"the preparedness of the European leaders is scandalously weak", so it is no wonder that he is running from them only to make symbolic gestures.

According to Attila Demkó, this is not surprising because "Western European leaders not only do not understand the Middle or the Middle East, but they do not even understand Eastern Europe".

(MTI)

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