Shocking move? The US could announce sanctions against Hungary! – UPDATE
The United States may be planning new measures to punish the Hungarian government. The US doesn’t like that Hungary is still maintaining close relations with Russia despite its invasion of Ukraine, therefore it could announce sanctions against Hungarian people.
According to 444.hu, who has cited several independent diplomatic sources, the US could be planning new measures against Hungary. They might announce sanctions against influential Hungarian individuals, similarly to 2014, when 6 people with corruption charges were banned from the US.
The site mentions that US Ambassador to Hungary, David Pressman, announced a press conference for Wednesday, but he did not elaborate on what the occasion or the topic will be. 444.hu writes that Pressman could announce new sanctions against Hungary. We will keep our readers updated on the sanctions.
US-Hungary relations at a low point
Diplomatic relations between Hungary and the US are at a historical low. Prime Minister Viktor Orbán was making jokes about Pressman’s name in his recent State of the Nation address, as his name can be translated to Hungarian as someone who is pushing Hungary towards the Russo-Ukrainian war.
Recently it was confirmed that Hungary was not invited to US President Biden’s democracy summit. According to the Biden administration, Hungary (and fellow NATO-member Turkey) are “dismantling” their democracies.
US Ambassador to Hungary David Pressman previously criticised Hungary’s foreign policy. In an open letter sent to Politico, he called out Prime Minister Viktor Orbán for “embracing Russian ‘cease-fire’ proposals while continuing to push policies endorsed by Putin”.
“It is irrelevant, completely irrelevant, what he or any other ambassador thinks about the internal political practices in Hungary because it has nothing to do with him,” Hungarian FM Péter Szijjártó reacted to Pressman’s statements, while further emphasising that the US Ambassador “has no business interfering in Hungary’s internal affairs”.
Pressman told Népszava that he personally does not care that much about the “defamation campaign against him”, but both he and the US Foreign Ministry considers it as a political attack against the US. He said that such anti-American rhetoric from an allied country is “unprecedented”.
UPDATE: The US sanctions are here: Hungarian head of the Russian spy bank is also on the list
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We need to dispense with the charade that Hungary is a NATO and EU ally. The Hungarian government will continue to deny it but it has become an ally of the Putin regime. Orban boasts about being the sand in the gears of the EU and NATO. He and Szijjarto meet with the indicted war criminal Putin and his lackey Lavrov (that man needs no mask for Halloween) and also dictator Lukashenko. These are the “friends” of Hungary while the United States is considered an adversary. Think very carefully about how Poland has become one of the closest allies of the US and one of the strongest enemies of Russia. Why does Hungary do the opposite? When you answer that question you will understand the absolute peril Hungary is sliding into putting itself back under the Russian domination it pulled itself out from 30 years ago.
BUDAPEST, April 12 (Reuters) – The United States is preparing to take action against some individuals including Hungarians over for evading Western sanctions imposed on Russia over the Ukraine war, a source familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.
The US is not applying sanction on Hungary itself but only some individuals. The Daily News Hungary headline is inaccurate and misleading. The Daily News Hungary article does not specify the reason for the coming sanctions on these Hungarian individuals which is for “evading Western sanctions.” The US is not applying sanctions because “it doesn’t like that Hungary is maintaining close relations with Russia.”
Dear Larry, thank you for your remark. Please wait for our updated article on the sanctions list, coming in a few minutes. Thank you.
The United States of America – and its POSSIBLE, could in the use of Sanctions they will impose against Hungary, our relationship with America – DESTROYED – by the Political Ideas and Philosophy of the “Tyrant” of Hungary of DEMOCRACY – Victor Orban and his Government, we could witness Sanctions imposed by America on us, that “cripples” the Car Manufacturing Industry, and associated industry’s.
We know in there thousands spread the width and breath of Hungary – the numbers employed in the Motor Vehicle Industry.
What a cataclysmic DISASTER – this could BE.
It could be EASILY styled – by the United States of America – in that any componentry produced in Hungary, that is used in Motor Vehicles production for Export of vehicles to the United States of America – these vehicles landing in America will be ceased under Sanctions.
Hungarians in there MILLIONS have not been LISENING to the explosive situation post February 2020 – that has been GROWING between Hungary and the United States of America.
Orban – like a “Junk Yard Dog” and his Foreign Minister and Minister for Trade – Peter Szijjarto, the (2) Hungarian Political figures in particular – who have been relentless – feed into what GROWS being the DESTROYED position of Hungary’s & America’s relationship.
Joseph, Robinette. Biden the 46th elected by a Democratic process – President of the United States of America and Victor Orban – remember the “Love Affair” of Orban & Trump – there was NEVER going to be established nor amicable respected relationship.
The United States of America – Orbans attacks on the European Union on NATO, his opinions and taken acted out positions on the Russian War on the Ukraine – then the RUSSIAN relationship – and “throw” it in because its FACT – the Orban/Hungary relationship with China – it was ALWAYS going to have through STAGES worsening deepening of Hungary’s relationship with the United States of America – that we are NEARER seeing the enforcement SANCTIONS imposed against Hungary, by the United States of America.
This FORUM was used by numbers of commentators over the past 18 months that WARNED Hungary – the Orban way of “playing” America was a WRONGFUL path, that would see but just one CLEAR and decisive VICTOR – that would be – WILL be, the United States of America.
The BIG BULLY USA thinks the world revolves it. It thinks it has the power to not only crush Russia, but rule Europe via NATO from afar. It is high time Europe wakes up and quits being a US puppet before they drag the whole of it down with them. The USA is falling like Rome before it, and are desperate to hold onto it’s power by orchestrating a proxy war with Russia via the horrible devastation of Ukraine and it’s people. NEVER trust the USA.
It is not the USA, the top US government positions are controlled by some Askhanasem and Khazarian Jews who wanted to establish a new Jerusalem on the eastern side of Ukraine’s 5 counties. The US State dept., Attorney General, Finance, George Soros, Klauss Schwab this kabal with NWO wants confiscate everybody’s wealth “Great Reset”, plus Victoria Nuland’s was running 22 or so many labs working in Ukraine on nano-weapons against slavic gene-ed people /Russians. In plain English, our government has been hijacked, stealing our taxes and resources to support this Jewish expantion, what has been a total disaster. President Orban is correct, staying out of the military help. Ursula and Biden are equally corrupted by bigPharma money, we just need to wait for president Trump to return.
The US is an empire in decline with a demented senile puppet at its helm. The deep state will not succeed in its attempt at regime change and LGBetc indoctrination. The average Magyar is not that naive. Orban is immune to such pressures since he has a majority backing him up.