On Thursday, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto warned against allowing Ukraine to use Western weapons to launch long-range strikes inside Russia.
“If long-range attacks hit the territory of Russia, then the risk of escalation will only increase,” Szijjarto wrote on Facebook ahead of a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels. “We don’t want this.”
The meeting of EU foreign ministers was supposed to be held in Budapest, but the EU’s top foreign policy official, Josep Borrell, moved it to Brussels as a punishment for Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s recent push for peace in Ukraine, which involved trips to Ukraine, Russia, and China.
During the meeting, Borrell pushed for giving Ukraine the ability to launch long-range strikes in Russia. “The weaponry that we are providing to Ukraine has to have full use, and the restrictions have to be lifted in order for the Ukrainians to be able to target the places [from] where Russia is bombing them. Otherwise, the weaponry is useless,” he said, according to POLITICO.
The meeting was also attended by Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, who has been pushing hard for the US and NATO to lift all restrictions on Ukraine’s use of Western weapons.
POLITICO reported that Hungary also opposed a proposal from Borrell to sanction Israeli ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben Gvir for their rhetoric, which Borrell has called “an incitement to war crimes.”
After the meeting, Szijjarto described Borrell’s proposals as “reckless” and said Hungary wanted peace. “We do not want more weapons in Ukraine, we do not want more deaths, we do not want an escalation of the war, we do not want an expansion of the crisis in the Middle East. Today, we continue to stand for common sense and peace,” he said.
If they don't get the approval for escalation they so desperately want, will the warmongers stop sending these "useless" weapons..? Not likely.
Nope.
Congress Mom : "You can't buy new weapons until you use up all the old ones."
POTUS Child : {gives away old weapons} "Howbout now ?"
Hungary is crazy and probably more stupid than Russia. While we are defeating and destroying Russia, the Russians would be so busy bluffing, they would forget that BIG RED SHINY BUTTON SITTING ON THEIR DESK!
I heard the one Trump had on his desk would summon him a Diet Coke.
Found one on Amaazon. Got tired of waiting on Putin. The only thing is the instructions on how to install it are in Chinese. š
My preference are the Chinese products with the instructions earnestly yet incorrectly translated to English. “For best usage, have with the fresh batteries for most benefitted working !”
I read those and smile, and say out loud, "Okay, enthusiastic and friendly Chinese marketing person, I will ! And thank you for the helpful advice, I appreciate it !"
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Found mine on Amazon. I am tired of waiting for Putin. Power Button for PC, True Wireless for Desktop(Laptop is not Compatible), Atomic Nuclear Bomb EVA Launch Button (Yellow) https://a.co/d/iLdyFBc
nukes tend to be bad
I'm with the West. There is absolutely no evidence that Russia has all their nuclear missiles trained on us RIGHT FU@KING NOW!
Most Europeans know the United States provoked the conflict in Ukraine, profits from banning Russian oil and gas, and remain uneasy about the mysterious destruction of the Nordstream pipelines. The American government promoted a mindless NATO expansion strategy that caused a disastrous war and weakened NATO nations, who were pressured to donate billions of dollars and much of their military equipment to Ukraine, even though it isnāt a member of the NATO alliance.
Eastern European states were excited to join NATO and the European Union economic block, called the EU, but were soon pressured to boost military spending to buy American weaponry, accept foreign migrants, host foreign troops, and donate money and arms to a lost cause in Ukraine. Profitable trade and tourism with Russia sharply declined while energy costs soared, causing economic decline.
The people of some European nations have already decided that joining NATO and the EU was a bad idea. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban openly states his dislike of EU mandates to allow mass immigration and continued trade sanctions on Russia. EU leaders denounce Orban and threaten sanctions because they can abuse Hungary since it is landlocked and surrounded by Ukraine and EU members.
But if Russian troops reach Ukraineās western border, Hungary may defect. Conquered Ukraine would become a close Russian ally and allow access to energy pipelines to import cheap Russian oil and gas, and permit rail and road access to Russia and all of Asia. There are several neighboring nations who may also defect from the American empire. This explains why NATO is considering sending forces to secure western Ukraine to keep its vassal states captive.
Hungary may not need to "defect" – they could renounce NATO and declare Neutrality, even at the "last minute".
"Oh but that's dishonorable/ no-one would trust Hungary ever again !"
Pragmatism is a wonderful survival skill.
And if it came to blows between the RF / Belarus, and NATO – who'd be left to castigate Hungary ?
I actually commend Orban for his hardline positions. Only thing is that the Empire may revise his 'expiry date' if things get too squirrely.
if you commend someone for being hardline then idk what to tell you
i'll bet you've never talked to a European in your life besides a waiter in Paris
Most Europeans don't think that NATO is unjust. But you know what they DO think? The Russkie Š¾ŃŠŗ'Ń have subjegated them long enough where the finally get the chance to stand up to their former masters
I have friends in Hungary, Poland, and the Baltics, along with my friends in Ukraine. Despite our language differences, despite our differences as a whole, we have one common idea; to remove the Russkie from the face of the earth
You make a very bold statement that you and your friends wish to āremove the Russkie from the face of the earthā.
So, you openly support genocide? Soldiers in war are one thing, but now you have now extended that and want to eliminate every Russian child, woman, and elderly person.
I know you are angry that over 20% of Ukraine is under Russian control and most of those eastern cities have been completely destroyed with more losses every day.
Kursk was interesting and bold, some would say suicidal, but is not sustainable and itās a matter of time.
Just like all the other Ukrainian cities that will continue to fall.
Any person who thinks the Empire has genuine concerns about Ukraine is seriously mistaken. Unfortunately, they will have to learn the hard way.
In the end, history will have another chapter added about the a forced regime change by the Empire that has been nothing but a failure.
You all should have thought very carefully about that when you were busy eating Nulandās cookies in 2014.
Donāt forget her heartfelt and compassionate statement when asked how Europe would feel about the Empireās coupā¦..
āFuck the EU!ā
Hungary has a good game plan here :
1. Be the voice of Reason in both the EU and NATO.
2. Because of (#1), drop further down the list of Russian Federation nuclear targets.
3. Probably survive WW3.
Psst. Assassination.
Worst 'nation on Earth.
hungary is a stupid nation
Why is Hungary all of sudden concerned about this…?! It's too far from Russia border…!
Ill ignore the implied sarcasm and say this:
OrbƔn's Hungary is like a child; whiny, dependent on it's mom and dad (the USA and the EU) and they think they know everything, especially when it goes agains their parents,
FJB this maniac is still in the White House with access to the nuclear football.
Joey Biden is close to his death bed and wants to take the world with him!
There's no reason for nato to be concerned. The Kremlin does nothing but complain.
Hungary has legitimate claims to some land in Western Ukraine as do Romania and Poland.
After all Ukraine was cobbled together after World War One from land stolen from the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Czarist Russian Empire. In addition, Poland lost land in the deal.
The entire Frankenstein region was given to Stalin as a gift.
There is no need for Ukraine to exist, PERIOD!
Josep Borrell is a member of the Spanish Socialist Workers Party. The socialists hate conservative Hungary as much as they hate conservative Russia, where Putin has condemned mass immigration to Western Europe and banned Soros-funded NGOs and all homosexual propaganda. Spanish socialist media are complete fanatics.
They want Russia destroyed, and things like cost, risk, and the suffering of Western peoples due to the sanctions and cutting off of gas, are irrelevant.
E.U. should listen to the Magyars. Theyāve seen too much for too long. Wise words.
The EU likes cheap labour too much to care wtf the Magyars think.
Oh that must be what explains the harsh migration policies keeping all that cheap labor out of EU… or maybe you are just peddling shit.
You mean the same policies that allowed over 1,300,000 migrants/refugees into Europe in 2015? The highest amount since WWII.
Oh yeah, they all came their because of the wars the Empire created or forced regime changes with āformer friendsā in the Middle East.
Why werenāt 100% of these sent direct to the USA since they directly caused these conflicts? Rhetorical, yes but more importantly, what exactly what the hell did these instigated conflicts actually achieve?
No and if you knew anything about it, you would know that this was a divergence from the policies that were in place.
So proof of my point not the other way around.
That part at least less wrong – though these were homegrown protests that caught the west with their collective pants down.
Because the US would not have them.
Not sure they achieved much of lasting value – the notion that they were western planned or backed is however dubious at best.
The only place where the west felt a desire to get involved were in Libya – and that was straining their resources more than what they could cope with.
In other words – the west was not geared to profit from the Arab spring – and where they did get involved they were not capable of exercising projected power on the ground.
The engagement in Afghanistan consuming the forces needed to achieve any goals on the ground.
Really?
Dubious that USA/UK planned or backed the failed campaigns in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, etc?
Yes really the US/UK planned actions in Iraq and Afghanistan involved forces that they could have thought would achieve their goals – it was foolish to think so (even at the time) but the Arab spring involved no forces on the ground and took place post the Iraq/Afghanistan adventures thus not even the US/UK could have thought it would work out very well.
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Yes exactly – celebrating the moment they thought they had won – but that did involves boots on the ground – no boots (or very very few) in Libya and no regime overthrow in Syria – so they should not have thought that could achieve even better results – should they?
No regime change in Syria because USA/UK was incapable of that one. The USA had direct results; creation of ISIS / ISIL.
Yes that’s kind of the point – they were not prepared at all to move for such a result at the time of the Arab spring – thus the notion that they planned or staged the Arab spring has only weak support (had they done so they would have timed it differently).
Stop the bullshit. The Empire was not capable to do anything because Russia would not allow another regime change in the region.
Isnāt that kind of the point?
No the point is that neither the US nor UK at the time had the political will to get further engaged in the middle east – and that the case for the Arab spring being of their making therefore being very weak.