The US ambassador harshly attacked the Hungarian government
The US ambassador to Budapest has attacked the Hungarian government, criticising Fidesz’s pro-Russia stance.
US ambassador’s criticism
On Wednesday, 7 June, a reception was held to celebrate the US-Hungarian scientific cooperation and to celebrate the Space Treaty between the two countries. The event included a speech by the US Ambassador to Budapest.
“I must begin tonight by mentioning the catastrophic events unfolding in Ukraine as the people of that country continue to struggle with Russia’s war against a country with which Hungary stubbornly maintains and even strengthens its ‘interconnectedness’,” the Ambassador said.
The ambassador then explained that while Hungary is making friends with Moscow, tens of thousands of people are forced to leave their homes in Ukraine because the Russians have destroyed the reservoir in Nova Kahovka.
“A few things are clear: Russia started this war, Russia was the one who occupied this territory of Ukraine, and the dam was under the control of Russia,” portfolio.hu quotes the ambassador as saying.
“Worlds separate us from the Hungarian government”
David Pressman then turned to space exploration. “At this desperate moment, when it may seem that worlds separate us from the Hungarian government, there is another space where the United States and Hungary are making significant progress together”.
Pressman has previously criticised the Hungarian government. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán jokingly used the ambassador’s name to say that Pressman wanted to put pressure on the Hungarian government’s policies, index.hu quoted him as saying.
Pressman also pointed out in his speech that the scientific importance of the Earth Observation programme is growing. Weather forecasting, crop forecasting, natural resource management and natural disasters are of paramount importance. “According to a recent study, Hungary lost 3 percent of its GDP last year due to crop failure caused by extreme droughts. The agricultural systems of the Carpathian Basin and the Balkans are among the most vulnerable to climate change in Europe as a whole,” said Pressman.
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This just like Russia destroying the pipeline they spent billions on – not worth a mention in DNH.
The US is in control of everything that is happening in Ukraine. They also are responsible for a violent revolt that ousted the twice elected goverment- Victoria nuland, now back in charge in the clown show today- she selected the new goverment that was a jokes and the country became more corrupt. They destroyed the democracy while yelling save democracy. The US could stop the killling today. The hatefilled people refuse to do so while the US taxpayer is footing the bill. The dam story is another big lie and goes unquestioned here. Russia is not going away- shame on Orban wanting the killing stopped and not let US proxy war spread to Hungary.
This is the same country that’s been bleating for more than a half a decade now about “Russian collusion” and “Chinese interference” in its domestic affairs. The hypocrisy is truly stupendous.
Frankly, the US Ambassador was NOT elected by the citizens of Hungary and he really has NO BUSINESS dictating anything to the Hungarian government. As far as I know Hungary is not a colony of the USA. If I were the Hungarian Government I would expell him from Hungary.
Pressman should be pressed home. It is a fact that Pressman did not mention the high crime rate in the US, the open border fiasco, high inflation and members of the middle class are having a hard time to put food on the table. Pressman is and actor in a farce, written by the leftist socialist Biden regime.
Gooi die “man” eruit!!??
The US ambassador is out of his place. Who is this unchosen person? No need to pay attention to him. He’s there to give people from the USA a new passport if they lost it.
Let him go back to his great US where people live on the streets and eat out of trash cans, and sit in the cold and 25% of the population is imprisoned, 30% if not more in mental need and the rest pulls the trigger on their neighbour, strangers, at shopping malls, and schools.
His “speech” is out of place at this celebration.
What we know about the US is that this country spends the highest amount of money (they do not have the country is bankrupt since 2012) of all countries worldwide. They always started each war, robbed these countries, sacrifice their own people (9/11), took many nazis in after the 2nd world War (they are at nato everywhere), made many enemies worldwide (BRICS to start with) and lie, and lie and lied. They even think god is theirs (sounds like narcissism).
It’s obvious that Pressman was an in-your-face appointment. What do you expect from a country run by a senile dementia patient?
Iam a CRITIC – of what Orban is undertaking, in the DESTRUCTION of Hungary.
A “Franchised” Fidesz Member, but the PATH that Orban is taking – destroying relationships with country’s and in the process DEMOCRACY – is WRONGFUL.
We need to be a Member of the European Union not as we are in a “Barengraben” – a Swiss word meaning a Bear Pit.
It DISGUISTS me – Infuriates me – and factually, they have a right to comment on “other” country’s – but the “style” the process and way – its DELIVERY – wonder what the “hidden agenda” of it is, coming out of Liberty Square in Budapest, Hungary – the “Sanctuary” of the Ambassador of the United States of America’s – they may comment BUT to mingle or interfere – by exaggeration / excitement, the lacking truth & facts – in a dialogue style/format, of a propaganda presentation, they America – have No RIGHT – to “Heap” it on us – Hungary.
I do not like to write commentaries using offensive language in word usage but in this case – to America I say, get your own BLOODY house in a resemblance of order, a task, which witnesses your present position – that America is in resembling a “State of Confusion” – politically and economically – in a cataclysmic DECLINE.
Its “angst” me – from the early 1970’s on “secondment” – for the better part of a year from the City of London, practice of Law, to spend time in the Lower Manhattan – Battery Park Plaza district of New York, working full time, with “supposed” Educated Americans.
The self belief of there importance personally – of there intelligence, and that of America its IMPORTANCE to the World, back decades just VILED me.
America – Disney Land continues to ENGULF them, living in the past, but in present times a Fairyland.
So many disgusting Putinists are blogging here.
It is Russia (more specifically, Mr. Putin) that launched a war of aggression last year, invading Ukraine in violation not only of international law but of specific security guarantees. It is Russia that has deliberately targeted civilians and civil infrastructure. It is Russia that has executed civilians and dumped their bodies in unmarked graves, Russia that has laid waste to cities, Russia that is attempting to extinguish Ukrainian sovereignty and culture. Russia, not Ukraine, is the inheritor of Nazi barbarism.
Is this what the Fidesz government and Hungarians want to be a “partner” with? The Russian regime is the 21st century equivalent of Nazi Germany.
Anonymous says: You are on the side of a country that persecutes and indicts opposition, (ex-President Trump). President Trump is the leading candidate of the Republican Party. Mr. Pressman was sent to Hungary because he is the member of the LGBT community. Pressman has no other redeeming quality.
marievontheresa – you write what Bulls do in a PADDOCK.