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Orbán: Peace won’t be achieved by Ukraine or Russia; it has to come from outside
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If it were up to Ukraine and Russia, there would never be peace, so peace can only come from the outside, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in his address at the Bálványos Summer University in Baile Tusnad, Romania on Saturday.
Both sides are taking brutal losses, yet they don’t want to reach a settlement, Orbán said, explaining that this was because both Ukraine and Russia believed that they could win and were fuelled by their own “perceived or real truth”.
Orbán said the Ukrainians saw the war as a Russian invasion that violated international law and their territorial sovereignty, and that they were defending themselves and fighting a war or independence.
The Russians, on the other hand, believed that there had been “serious NATO military developments in Ukraine”, that the country had been promised NATO membership, and they did not want to see either NATO troops or NATO weapons on the Russia-Ukraine border, he said. So, he said, Russia believed it had a right to self-defence and that the war had been provoked.
“So everyone has some kind of perceived or real truth, and neither side will give up the war,” the prime minister said.
“This is a straight path to escalation,” he said, stressing that there would be no peace if it were left up to the two warring sides. “Peace can only come from the outside,” Orbán said.
Poor orban. He though he was going to influence aome how on this war actors. He just made an unnecessary trip ro discover he is useless. His ego doesn’t let him seem beyond. It would be better if he just stay quiet as he will not change anything. Better to fix your own country that is about to colapse economically, ahhh and then he will blame anyone else as usual