Secretary: the Slovak foreign minister has lied
Why should the European Union plan to finance weapons shipments for Ukraine “if there is no war in the next four years?” Tamás Menczer, state secretary at the foreign ministry, said in reaction to remarks by Slovak Foreign Minister Miroslav Wlachovsky, on Sunday.
Wlachovsky said earlier on Twitter that he could not recall “a debate in which it was suggested that the war could go on for four more years,” as suggested by Péter Szijjártó, his Hungarian counterpart.
“The war could end tomorrow; Russia is the problem rather than the EU,” Wlachovsky said. The Slovak minister “either has a bad short term memory … or he is lying,” Menczer said, and noted that foreign ministers of the EU had recently discussed a proposal under which an annual 5 billion euros could be spent on financing arms for Ukraine in the next four years.
Ukraine (and everyone else bordering Russia or Belarus) will require arms far into the future even if the war ended tomorrow. Russia is and will continue to be a massive existential threat to the country. Ukraine will need to be heavily armed to deter future aggression from the Orcs. This should be obvious to everyone though it is something Fidesz members don’t want to acknowledge. Why do you think Poland instituted a huge program to increase the size of its’ military and purchase armaments?
Our Politicians don´t appear to be particularly disturbed by having a Russian vassal state as a neighbor. Scary.
In the meantime, Poland is freaking out regarding their neighbor Russia vassal state Belarus. The narrative there are getting pretty ugly, in case people missed it: https://www.dw.com/en/russias-wagner-groups-westward-ambitions-poland-on-alert/a-66356603
“Russia is our friend!” – NO, they are NOT.
If our Politicians are looking for a WW3 trigger, which they are so fond of mentioning – look no further than these developments.