You have to be sane, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said Friday morning on Radio Kossuth, where he spoke about the war situation in Ukraine and Donald Trump's role in peace.

Everyone knows, but it doesn't hurt to remind ourselves that Hungary is Ukraine's neighbor

Viktor Orbán said. In his usual Friday morning radio interview with Kossuth, the Prime Minister said that the Transcarpathian attack made it clear: the danger is immediate, it is not a matter of rockets hitting hundreds of kilometers from the border. According to him, this is why he convened the defense council on Wednesday morning. They are deploying tools that can easily reach Ukraine's neighboring countries, he said. These news are about us, about Hungary's threat of war, added the Prime Minister.

This is the darkest hour we live in

- declared the Prime Minister, who used an analogy to express that it is always darkest before the dawn. In the analogy, the dawn was US President Donald Trump, who still has two months to take office. According to him, with Trump's victory, peace has come tangibly close.

"Hungary is following the path of sobriety, we will behave in a planned and calm manner"

he added.

The situation is clear in military terms, if the United States gets out from behind Ukraine, Europe has no chance to support Ukraine, Viktor Orbán said. According to him, it is only necessary to endure these two months with a smart, calm policy. The German government fell within 24 hours after the results of the US presidential election became clear, which clearly shows that there are strong connections here - added the Prime Minister, who said that "we will decide in accordance with our own national interest". He said that not everyone is in such a fortunate situation, because there are places where they are more dependent on what is happening in America.

"Whether the Germans give Taurus missiles to Ukraine is strongly influenced by the American situation"

he thought. According to him, there is a strong assumption that these missiles cannot be delivered to their target without American cooperation.

In the interview, the Prime Minister emphasized that communication between countries is different, different in the West and different in Russia. According to him, for a long time now, politics in Western Europe has been 80 percent "speech", "chatter, idle talk". According to him, it follows that European leaders think that this is just communication, but in Russia the spoken word has weight.

When the Russians change the doctrine about the use of nuclear weapons, they change it, they don't talk to the air, it's not a communication trick, you have to be smart

- declared Viktor Orbán, who says that in the next two months, the logic of war must be started in Western Europe as well.

In the interview, Viktor Orbán also commented on the international arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. As he said, he is a supporter of reducing the number of conflicts in the world, but this is not taken into account by international organizations. He called the decision impudent and plans to invite the Israeli prime minister to Hungary.

Regarding the Patriots for Europe party family, he said that they "didn't get off to a bad start" and that they represent positions that differ from the European mainstream and are sometimes crude, but clear. We are looking for cooperation with other right-wing parties - said the Prime Minister, who stated that they want to be the most influential representative group.

Viktor Orbán said that there are three maps on the wall of his office, one with America at its center, the other with Asia, the other with Europe, these are different points of view. According to him, Eurasia should be in the public mind, geographically the two continents are one. The reorientation of Europe and Hungary is also a current task, he said.

The prime minister also spoke about the wage increase agreement. He declared, "we don't want to win the war, but peace."

Pro-war demonstrations should not be held in Ukraine T-shirts. But how do we want to win peace? This requires a completely new economic policy. We created it, and its deep philosophical basis is economic neutrality

he added. According to him, this can only lead to economic growth and wage increases.

"Employers and employees agree on the minimum wage, the government just stamps it. A three-year salary agreement has been reached, Hungarians can be sure that the purchasing power of Hungarians' money will increase in 2025, 2026 and 2027, we want to maintain the power of strong growth"

Viktor Orbán promised.

Finally, the Prime Minister said that he thinks that those who criticize the national consultation look down on the people, are not interested in their opinions and do not want a direct influence between political decisions and the will of the people.

There is a contempt in this. And verbally, in words, this coarsening appeared. This is a posture that we, politicians, know better. »Their mouths stink, the people stink, some colleagues are brain dead, the journalists must be thrown into the Danube« (cited by the Prime Minister from the published audio recordings of Péter Magyar - ed.)

- summed up the prime minister, who said that a negative, threatening tone stemming from contempt has appeared in Hungarian politics, which was not the case until now.

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