American diplomat: Putin wants to conquer Hungary
W. Robert Pearson, a former US ambassador to Turkey, published an unsettling article on Russian President Putin’s alleged goals concerning the Eastern-European region. He claims that Putin wants to restore the former glory of Russia. Therefore, he wants to “claw back for his imperial Russia: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria, with Moldova leaning West, non-NATO and yet on Putin’s list.”
Hungary on Putin’s list?
Mr Pearson shared his opinion on the relevant issue on thehill.com. According to Wikipedia, in 2020, this site was the largest independent political news portal in the United States. Pearson serves as the president of American Diplomacy Publishers Inc. Moreover, he is a scholar at the Middle East Institute and a fellow at Duke University Center for International and Global Studies/Rethinking Diplomacy. He served twice at NATO during the end of the Cold War, at the time of Germany’s reunification, and he was also responsible for accepting new members of the Alliance.
The former US ambassador to Turkey is an opinion contributor, and he shared some paragraphs on the news website regarding Putin’s ultimate goals concerning Eastern Europe.
His title is thought-provoking: NATO must decide European security beyond the Ukraine war.
It asserts that the military block has more tasks on the European “front” than supplying Ukraine with the necessary weapons, intelligence and information to make Kyiv able to withstand Russian aggression.
Putin to reestablish the Iron Curtain?
Pearson writes that international media did not notice Turkish President Erdogan’s chief advisor and spokesman’s March 17 statement: “after this war, there will have to be a new security architecture established between Russia and the Western bloc.” He quotes Thomas Bagger, a senior German diplomat, who said that Putin was thinking in categories of a 1,000-year empire. “You cannot deter someone like that with sanctions.”
“NATO frontline states form a concave arc across the heart of Europe from the Baltic approaches to St. Petersburg to the mouth of the Danube. That is the territory Putin intends to claw back for his imperial Russia: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria, with Moldova leaning West, non-NATO and yet on Putin’s list” –
the US diplomat writes.
Without security, there will be no prosperous economy
He argues that Putin will bolster Russia’s military presence as far west as possible. He will try to intimidate the Baltic states, Poland and Germany. Furthermore, Putin will try to drag Minsk as close as possible. Moreover, he will try to make Russia’s military presence in Belarus semi-permanent, like in Syria and Kazakhstan. Pearson says that demanding the non-NATO Ukraine is just the first step. “One of the clearest lessons of modern European history is that leaders of democracies should believe what dictators and autocrats say they plan to do” – the former US ambassador to Turkey claims.
Sanctions will not be successful for NATO or the USA if Russia does not retreat from Ukraine. Otherwise, there will only be a new frozen conflict. Pearson says that Europe cannot be free and economically prosperous without the security of its member states.
This is not the first time an ambassador suggests that Hungary is on Putin’s list. Lyubov Nepop, the Ukrainian ambassador to Hungary, said in late March that Hungary was the next target of the Russian president – 168 óra reported.
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Source: thehill.com, 168 óra
11 Comments
Anyone that believes one word of this total fantasy opinion straight from the US Government is beyond help. There is not one word of truth from the former ambassador about Putins intentions.
How convenient, the job of the ambassador is to serve his and his country’s interest and not the Hungarian interests… who believes diplomats anyways.. Hungary is doing well and better things for Hungarians
Opinions are not worth the paper they are written on.
Conquer? Orbánistan, once Hungary, is de facto Putin’s protectorate, a quasi colony. Nothing to conquer. It is done already.
How can Hungary be Putin’s protectorate when Hungary is a member of NATO and the EU? Yeah, I get that you don’t like Hungarian’s policies, Mario. The truth is that Hungary does what it does for its own self-interest just like this US diplomat trying to say Russia wants to conquer Hungary when logically it cannot as conquering Hungary would be starting a war with NATO.
After reading the article (above), I felt that I wanted to comment, but after reading the five (to date) comments, I thought not. Minutes later I changed my mind (it’s a woman’s prerogative to change her mind :D).
W. Robert Pearson is entitled to his opinion, as are we all who comment here. Let’s keep everything in perspective, it is ONLY an OPINION, so let’s react to it as such.
As for “conquering” Hungary, well, as long as Pm Orban is solely in charge, Putin won’t have to do any MORE “conquering” (of Hungary), and that goes for all the other countries that rely on Russia’s energy because they are already deep in Putin’s pockets
Let’s just look how far China has come since Pres. Nixon’s first visit 50 years ago. Just look at how reliant the WHOLE world is on “Made in China” products. It is us – those of us who buy “Made in China” – who elevated China to the forefront of the most successful economies.
If the said European countries continue to be reliant on Russia’s energy, Putin won’t have invade any other country. That said, I personally feel that Putin is eying Moldova (as his next stepping stone), but that’s just my OPINION, and I have NO particular expertise on Putin, and his thoughts and plans.
After the events in Ukraine there should be no doubt that Russia lacks the military power to take any part of EU or N ATO countries. Russia is no longer a significant conventional military power. Hungary should not take too much comfort however. The current Hungarian military lacks the manpower, weapons and equipment to adequately defend the Country.
I agree, the opinion is unique. Here’s mine:
It’s just the usual American side-talk that has been going on for decades to confuse interests in the foreign destinations. In recent decades, millions of innocent people have died because of these world domination aspirations. They lie as if they are reading from a book. They still want to start a war (a III.WW?), but they don’t have enough sense to think about it: maybe, they’ll be the first, who pay the price of stupidity. There is no they place in Europe and nor other anti-national balliberal globalists!
Ha-ha-ha … Is this the balliberal democracy? Censorship?
Fear mongering nonsense..that’s all
Divide and rule