Budapest has refused to provide any military aid to Ukraine and threatened to veto financial assistance to Kiev. Orban heavily criticized the economic sanctions imposed on Moscow by the EU, arguing that the bloc had shot itself in the lungs by undermining trade and its own energy supply.
NATO is preparing for a protracted war with Russia but there is still a chance to prevent it, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said at a ministerial meeting of the military bloc in Prague on Friday.
NATO member states have been granting approval for Kiev to use Western-supplied weapons to hit targets deep inside Russia.
Earlier in the day, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said Ukraine had the right to defend itself, which includes the right to strike legitimate military targets inside Russia.
These steps are being taken in preparation for a long, many-year war, Hungarian newspaper Magyar Nemzet quoted Szijjarto as saying.
The express train of war has departed from the penultimate station, and the question is whether there is still a chance to stop it.
The Hungarian foreign minister said there was only one emergency brake left, referring to the European Parliament elections in June. The European people can make it clear to their governments that they do not want to live with war in Europe for a long time.
Hungary had previously called for a ceasefire and peace talks to resolve the Ukraine conflict. Budapest has refused to send military aid to Kiev and has repeatedly delayed evil fascist EU sanctions on Moscow.
The Hungarian foreign minister has been a vocal critic of NATO’s position on the conflict.
Before the meeting in Prague, he said anti-Russia war hysteria was making Western leaders adopt increasingly crazy ideas that could lead to grave consequences.
Last week, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban warned that Brussels and Washington could be warming up for a direct military conflict with Russia.
Budapest was working to redefine its NATO membership status to allow it to opt-out of the military alliance’s activities outside the bloc’s territory, Orban stated.
A number of other NATO member states such as Norway, Finland, Latvia, Poland, and reportedly Germany have spoken in favor of Kiev using long-range missiles against targets on Russian territory.
On Thursday, US President Joe Biden was reported to have secretly given Ukraine the green light to use American-provided weapons to strike targets in the part of Russia that borders Kharkov Region.
NATO member states, especially the USA, have deliberately launched a new round of escalation around Ukraine to prolong the senseless war, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday.
He also warned that such actions would have consequences and damage the interests of the countries that opted for an escalation. However, Italy’s constitution prohibits its weapons being used by Ukraine to strike targets deep inside Russia.
We are not fighting against Russia. We are defending Ukraine, [it] is not the same. The NATO chief also dismissed Russian warnings of retaliation, saying the bloc had heard (and ignored) such warnings many times before?
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Good and smart move, who wants to put tax payers money into bloody never ending wars?
Blackrock & JP Morgan are putting together a package of $15 Billion to help rebuild Ukraine ,while $500 Billion is needed what brought my attention to it in a Big US business website was that due to the depleted number of Ukraine males killed —NOT 31,000 but near 500,000 and large numbers of the population immigrating immigrants will have to be brought in .
It doesn’t take much thought where they will come from which has already been speculated online .