“Russia’s rulers are “hyper-rationalists”. The Ukraine will never be able to realize its ambition and join NATO or the EU,” said the Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban.
“Crazy West”
Nationalist Orban, who has been in power since 2010, made the comments during a speech in which he predicted a shift in global power from the “absurd” West to Russia and Asia.
“In the coming decades, perhaps centuries, Asia will dominate the world,” Orban said, naming China, India, Pakistan and Indonesia as future global superpowers.
“And we Westerners pushed the Russians into this bloc,” he said in a recorded speech to Hungarians attending a festival in the town of Baile Tusnad, in neighboring Romania.
Orban, whose country currently holds the rotating presidency of the EU, has radically differentiated itself from the rest of the bloc by seeking closer ties with Beijing and Moscow, and angered some EU leaders when it made surprise visits to Kiev, Moscow and Beijing this month for talks on the war in Ukraine.
As I said, in contrast to the “weakness” of the West, Russia’s position on international issues is logical and predictable, while the country has demonstrated economic flexibility in adapting to Western sanctions since invading Crimea in 2014.
Orban, whose government has taken a series of measures against the LGBTI+ community, said Russia had gained prestige in some parts of the world by suppressing LGBTI+ rights.
Ukraine will never join NATO or the EU because “we Europeans don’t have enough money for that”.
“The EU must renounce its identity as a political project and become an economic and defense project”, suggested the Hungarian Prime Minister.
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