Orbán: Ukraine has to be a buffer zone between Russia and NATO

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Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán has once again sharply criticised Ukraine. According to Orbán Ukraine adds nothing to the defence of Europe. He added that the West is in decline, and the European Parliament is, in fact, a madhouse.

Ukraine as a buffer zone?

According to HVG, Orbán believes that the Ukrainian state should serve as a buffer zone between Russia and the West, with adequate security guarantees. Former Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel spoke to Viktor Orbán for the opening issue of European Voices, a new magazine produced in cooperation with Die Presse, the Austrian Foreign Policy Association and the UN.

In the interview, the Hungarian prime minister stressed that if Kyiv cannot play its role as a buffer, it will lose territory because Moscow will attack it again and again. There is no way that Russia will allow a state that is a member of the EU and NATO on its doorstep.

Ukraine is not defending Europe

Orbán did not agree that the Ukrainians were defending Europe, unlike Hungary in 1956. They do not, he argued, provide any extra security to the western half of the continent because these countries are already in NATO, which is much stronger than Russia. He sees no chance of the Kremlin giving orders to invade any member of NATO.

The PM believes that Europe is not able to supply enough weapons to the Ukrainians because public opinion already resents the support. Therefore, a dialogue on a ceasefire should start immediately, but at the same time, talks on Kyiv’s accession to the EU and NATO should be held.

West in decline, EP is a “madhouse”

One of the reasons for the weakness of the continent, in his reading, is the dysfunction of the European Parliament, “because it is, in fact, a madhouse”.

In his view, we should return to the idea of representatives being delegated by the Member States and not directly elected. And the European Commission should not aspire to be the European Council because it is the Heads of State and Government who have the say.

Orbán sees the greatest threat to the continent in Russia and the US concluding a security agreement over its head. The shift of the centre of gravity of the world economy to Asia is also a serious problem. Orbán says we are witnessing a change of era that happens every 500 years: the end of the West’s leadership.

The Prime Minister said that it is difficult for him to find common ground with American democrats, because in his view, it is not universal values but Hungarian interests that must take precedence. This is precisely why he appreciates Donald Trump’s foreign policy, as it is based on similar principles. And Europe must both cooperate and rival the United States, he said.

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