The United States weaponized its energy sources, Orbán believes

PM Viktor Orbán said yesterday in a 1-hour-long speech at the 31st Bálványos summer university in Central Romania that what was hurting the West the most was that it had lost control of its energy sources.

The USA introduced fracking in 2013, a new technology to mine energy resources, and adopted a strategy of “weaponising” it, he said. They have stepped up sanctions policies and “strongly encourage” their allies to buy their products, he said. The “German-Russian energy axis” is being dismantled, he said. Switching to renewable energy resources remains non-viable, he added.

“Energy and raw materials key for economic development are not in Western hands now. What they have now is capital and military power. The question is what they can do with it under these circumstances,” he said.