VIDEO: President Biden shook hands only with PM Orbán – start of a new era?
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Lithuania’s capital, Vilnius, hosted NATO’s latest summit, which US President Joe Biden and Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, also attended. Prior to taking the family photo, Biden shook hands with only one country leader, Orbán. Hungarian media speculated he might have made a mistake or confused Orbán with someone else because the political branch of the Hungarian-American relationship is at a historic low due to a number of disagreements, for example, one concerning Ukraine and the ongoing war in Hungary’s neighbour.
Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán initially condemned the Russian aggression in Ukraine when it broke out in February 2022. But ever since, he has been campaigning for ceasefire and peace. Moreover, the Orbán cabinet maintained Russia’s dominant position in Hungary’s energy market. What’s more, they currently aim at Russians to build new reactor blocks in Paks. On top of that, the cabinet regularly advocates for removing Russian oligarchs and church leaders from the EU’s sanctions list.
Several Western analysts and politicians believe Hungary has a “pro-Russia” stance concerning the war in Ukraine. Meanwhile, Orbán’s party, having a supermajority in the parliament, regularly highlights they just want the bloodshed to be over as soon as possible. That’s the reason why they maintained communication channels with Russia and still cooperate with Moscow, at least economically.
Biden doesn’t know where he is half the time. Next you are not going to mention the millions in payments from Romania -Ukraine – Russia and the big one the CCP. to Biden Crime family going back 15 years.
Just 10 years ago the gang played a role in the violent ouster of the elected Ukraine leader insisting corruption and it was a dictatorship. Never mention the Obama Biden were more corrupt on a scale never seen in Europe. Putin big mistake was he didn’t take eastern Ukraine when he took Crimea.
I guess it makes since you don’t know what’s been going on in the area. The media should have asked him if he knew Brad Pitt was in Budapest.
Speaking of crime families … Last names are magical things. The Kushner-Trump family appears to be thriving after their spell as White House advisors – https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/10/us/jared-kushner-saudi-investment-fund.html (nothing to see, folks) and turns out our very own Istvan Tiborcz and Orbán Ráhel are great enterpreneurs, even registering as out-of-town farmers to buy a vineyard . https://english.atlatszo.hu/2023/06/09/the-pms-daughter-buys-another-60-hectares-of-vineyards-in-the-tokaj-wine-region/ – oh and winning plump EU funded projects that did not pass the smell test https://www.politico.eu/article/istvan-tiborcz-viktor-orban-olaf-eu-pursues-orban-son-in-law-case-despite-hungary-ending-probe/
Re the Maidan revolution … Facts matter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution_of_Dignity
@Tm not to worry – those who fled Ukraine are hardly slumming it: https://globalhappenings.com/opinion/46041.html – word of warning, it is an opinion piece, however collates a number of sources nicely (you can call me lazy, today)
Even Mr. Zakharchenko, who as Interior Minister authorized the use of deadly force against fellow Ukrainian citizens in the Maidan Revolution (speaking of violence) found a nice new job: https://www.rferl.org/a/zakharchenko-ukraine-putin-associate-yanukovych/26799151.html