Hungarian FM: What we want is not another package, we want peace
“We are neighbours of Ukraine, we are a direct neighbour, so the impacts of the war on us are immediate and severe … what we want is not another package, we want peace,” Foreign Minister Peter Szijjártó said in an interview with France24 on Saturday.
Szijjártó said in the interview, conducted in English in the political programme Talking Europe and posted on his Facebook page, that “we have allowed one million refugees already from Ukraine to enter the territory of Hungary, our inflation is skyrocketing … last year we had to pay 7 billion euros for our imported energy, this year we have to pay 19 billion”.
“We support and stand up for the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine”, he said. In response to a question concerning whether Hungary would veto a ninth package of sanctions, he said “there is no proposal on the table yet.”
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Source: MTI
The sanctions obviously didn’t bite, immediately – however it’s now clearly starting to hurt.
Sending off fighting age men to Ukraine and others (male and female) leaving the country to avoid the draft and/or generations of hardship is not going to help you staff offices and factories – and they won’t be paying taxes, either…
https://tradingeconomics.com/russia/gdp-growth
Russia raised it’s military spend to 4.5 percent of GDP. However, due to the mobilization, this is a de facto reduction per soldier (and in case anyone missed it – the poor sods are woefully undertrained and -equipped).
The only way to fund this (and the more creative import routes to procure tech) is to sell more oil, gas and other commodities to those wishing / able to buy. Good to read we are stepping up to the plate and helping the Kremlin. Please also consider there’s no way of funding spending by way of debt – so starving Russia of revenue may be the only realistic way to go!
Lastly – Mr. Szijjártó keeps on banging on about “we let in over 1 million Ukrainians”. Well. FACT – they’re not staying in Hungary, are they? What is his point?
https://data.unhcr.org/en/situations/ukraine