FM Szijjártó: Ukraine endangers NATO, Polish foreign minister Hungarophobic, Kyiv conducting smear campaign
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Brussels and Warsaw both want to amplify Ukraine’s “anti-Hungarian smear campaign” aimed at crippling the ongoing referendum on Kyiv’s accession to the European Union, Péter Szijjártó, the minister of foreign affairs and trade, said in Antalya on Thursday.
Polish foreign minister Hunarophobic, says Szijjártó
Speaking after a meeting of NATO foreign ministers, Szijjártó said that his “Sorosist, Hungarophobic” Polish counterpart, whom he called “one of the most pro-war politicians in Europe”, had “parroted all the accusations we have heard these past few days and weeks as part of Ukraine’s smear campaign”.
“I, of course, firmly rejected the Polish foreign minister’s accusations, and made it clear that they were part of a smear campaign against Hungary,” Szijjártó said, according to a ministry statement.
“The anti-Hungarian propaganda in Ukraine keeps intensifying, and it’s clear that both Brussels and Warsaw want to amplify this anti-Hungarian smear campaign,” he said. “And it’s clear that their goal is to cripple the vote on Ukraine’s EU accession.”
He urged Hungarians to participate in the referendum on Ukraine’s EU membership “to prevent this decision from being made over our heads in Brussels, Warsaw or Kyiv”.
Defence spending
Szijjártó said that at today’s meeting held in preparation for next month’s NATO summit he and his counterparts debated at length a proposal for the alliance’s members to increase their defence spending to 5 percent of GDP.
He said that so far only 20 of the 32 NATO countries have complied with the obligation to spend 2 percent of GDP on defence, adding, however, that a new target was warranted, especially given that the alliance’s defence capabilities “have weakened significantly, with several member states handing a significant part of their weapons arsenal to Ukraine in recent years”.
Same recording, same old song. Of course, who would expect anything different. Hungary’s regime, leading a little over 2% of the EU’s population and barely over 1% of EU’s GDP, continues to demand that the EU think like they do. They take the same position with NATO, even though NATO represents over twice as many people and a GDP twice as large as the EU. Yet the Hungarian plutocracy continues to demand that both NATO and the EU think like they do. I think it’s pretty clear that both NATO and the EU don’t think like the current Hungarian regime, and it ain’t gonna happen anytime soon either.
Szijjarto and Orban are Russian stooges who have worked continuously to undermine NATO for example by blocking Sweden and Finland’s entry for more than two years. It is in Hungary’s interest to stop any Russian takeover of Ukraine because no one in their right mind wants Russian troops on Hungary’s border. It is in everyone’s interest to supply Ukraine with all the means possible to keep the Russians east. Unfortunately the Fidesz government sold itself to the Russians and act as their proxy within NATO and the EU. The Hungarian government is the lowest piece of horse dung to tell anything the Poles about defence. The Poles know who the enemy is but no one in Fidesz dares call the threat out by name. Even the defence minister has Russian business partners. It’s a completely a sad joke.