Hungarian minister: Pro-peace politicians ‘hunted down’ in various ways
Péter Szijjártó, the foreign minister, said on the campaign trail in Hungary on Monday that it is clear from the examples of what has happened to Donald Trump in court and Robert Fico in a public space that pro-peace politicians face exceptional hardships in today’s world.
“They’re hunted down sometimes physically, sometimes through legal means, sometimes politically,” a ministry statement quoted Szijjarto as saying at a public forum held in Marcali, in western Hungary, referring to the former US president and the Slovakian prime minister, the latter of whom has survived an assassination attempt.
The minister also said there was a mounting danger of the war in Ukraine escalating, and he said many European leaders had been captured by “war madness”.
“While we have taken in a million refugees, western Europeans are playing war games,” he said.
Despite hundreds of billions of euros of arms shipments to Ukraine, neither side could gain the upper hand on the battlefield, he added.
Diplomacy was the only solution, he said, adding that the sooner peace talks started the better. He welcomed the upcoming peace conference in Switzerland but added it was “problematic” that Russia would not attend.
While it was important to reach for peace, doing so “with one side only” was not feasible.
Szijjarto said the Hungarian government was in the process of considering at what level to participate in the forum, “as it augurs limited hope as regards its efficacy”.
Only an outside factor could bring Russia and Ukraine to the negotiating table, “but right now no leader of the great powers is up to the task”.
He said this may change if Donald Trump won the US presidential election. He called Trump “a man of solutions” with “his two feet planted firmly on the ground” who had a better chance than ever of establishing peace.
He added that it would also help if a big turn to the right took place after this week’s European Parliament elections.
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There is a serious peace conference planned by our allies, the Swiss. However, for all of his big talk, Mr. Szijjártó now plays coy in taking to the stage and laying out his Master Plan? No contribution from Hungary? All talk, no action. Surprise!
Then for a correction: I know Mr. Szijjártó loves to state Hungary “took in a million refugees”. WE DID NOT (more surprise, I know).
Over a million Ukrainian refugees fled across the border, traveled through our land of Milk, Honey and Unicorns, then the vast majority left again, for greener pastures:
https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/infographics/ukraine-refugees-eu/h
It is like counting incoming passenger numbers of an airport as “country visits”, by ignoring transit passengers … Does sound a bit like how our Politicians do accounting, though!
Poland has arrested 18 people over the past six months on various allegations of pursuing hostile activities or planning sabotage on behalf of Russia and neighboring Belarus, and at least one was involved in an alleged plot to assassinate Ukraine’s president, the interior minister said Monday. Ten of those arrested since December were directly involved in planning various forms of sabotage, such as arson, across Poland, Interior Minister Tomasz Siemoniak told a news conference. —- This is Russia attacking the EU now. It’s time for Orban and Szijjarto to shut up unless they will speak against Russian aggression. Of course they won’t because they are stooges of Russian.