Hungary’s PM Viktor Orbán warns EU on path to ‘self-destruction’ | Far-right leader talks of new Asia-oriented world order and throws support behind Donald Trump
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/27/hungarys-pm-viktor-orban-warns-eu-on-path-to-self-destruction
by Canal_Volphied
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This what happens when you vote for crazy.
The EU is acting in it’s own self-interest.
If the scales are tipping towards an “asian world-order”, then only because Orban keeps undermining the EU and selling out to Russia and China.
this dumb sack of shit should STFU
I cannot wait until this fat Russian spy balloon pops.
The Liberal World stands together. We will defeat these morons, we will defeat autocracy!
And the parliamentary election is in 2026 😭
Fascists like Orban are doomed to always land on the wrong side of history.
>“Europe has given up defending its own interests,” Orbán said in Băile Tuşnad, a majority ethnic Hungarian town in central Romania. “All Europe is doing today is following the US’s pro-Democrat foreign policy unconditionally … even at the cost of self-destruction.
>“A change is coming that has not been seen for 500 years. What we are facing is in fact a world order change,” he added, naming China, India, Pakistan and Indonesia as becoming the “dominant centre” of the world.
>Orbán alleged that the US was behind the 2022 explosions that damaged the Nord Stream gas pipelines built to carry gas from Russia to Germany, calling it “an act of terrorism carried out at the obvious direction of the Americans”. He did not offer any evidence to back up the claim.
>On Ukraine, Orbán cast doubt on the war-torn country becoming a member of Nato or the EU. “We Europeans do not have the money for it. Ukraine will revert to the position of a buffer state,” he said, adding that international security guarantees “will be enshrined in an agreement between the US and Russia”.
>Orbán said on Saturday that Trump’s bid for re-election aimed “to pull the American people back from a post-nationalist liberal state to a nation state” and he rehashed a slew of conservative tropes that Trump was being penalised unfairly to prevent his electoral bid.
>“That is why they want to put him in prison. That’s why they want to take away his assets. And if that doesn’t work, that’s why they want to kill him,” Orbán said, referring to an assassination attempt on Trump at a Pennsylvania rally this month.
>The US ambassador to Hungary, David Pressman, responded to Orbán’s comments on Saturday in a post on X, saying such rhetoric “risks changing Hungary’s relationship with America”.
>“We have no other ally or partner … that similarly, overtly and tirelessly campaigns for a specific candidate in an election in the United States of America, seemingly convinced that no matter, it only helps Hungary – or at least helps him personally,” Pressman said, and he went on to accuse Orbán of peddling “Kremlin conspiracy theories about the United States. Hardly what we expect from an ally.”
Why do I have to keep reading about that guy? Aren’t there any other people who have said something stupid yesterday?
Fucking hell that man is a complete fucking melon.
Vote in clowns, expect a circus.
Nice speech after receiving that Chinese loan, asian-oriented world my ass
It’s just unbelievably funny how Hungary manages to take the wrong side every time during any world calamities.
Is it a feature or a bug?
OK, and what is exactly are the poles of this new Asian world order?
Russia keeps claiming the victory is 2 weeks away since they started, meanwhile their country is getting depopulated and slowly destroyed economically to support the war, a war that even it won though some miracle would lead to more problems than it solves.
China is slowly dwindling losing more and more manufacturing power as the world pulls out. And once it loses manufacturing power it will go bankrupt because Xi couldn’t be bothered to invest in development.
India is torn between the ultra wealthy who go to the moon in their honeymoon and a starving population, while ruled by an autocrat.
This is the one of the most schizo things ive ever read, nearly on the level of that Nazi expedition to Tibet
1 billion from China!
Then leave the EU and sign contracts with the Chinese and Russians. See how that works out. Fuck all those bastards who hate the West.
Hungary is on path to self destruction
He has to say that now he has pocketed the Chinese money.
There is no “self destruction”. Orban is going full delusional.
Betting on the losing horse, are we? How about Europe being a ‘pole’ in this ‘multipolar world order’? Ever think about that, Orby? One thing’s for sure, russia won’t be.
How could you, Victor? I’ve trusted you, Victor. What were these posters all around my room for? Was it in vain? Was it in vain…
Self destruction in Europe always caused by nationalism and far right extremism, so go and fuck yourself clown.
What about him and his country leaving the EU to join the asia-oriented world order? I mean, he does support Chinas expense into the west already, so…
Viktor, Viktor…go fuck your self and drop dead!
“Shut the fuck up Viktor, you’re out of your league!!!”
Says Orban while holding fingers crossed EU falls apart so he can fully become like his role model, Putin.
I can’t wait for Article 7
Once again the media spend their time amplifying the voice of the most petty, insignificant, authoritarian politicians out there. And then we wonder why they keep getting more and more popular among lost and the losers within our societies.
He is weak. He hardly survived the last vote and his only reason to stay pm is bargain gas and oil prices from putin. Ironically his russian source of power is supplied via Ukrainian pipelines
There has to be a mechanism to remove Hungary from the EU and NATO right?
The only self-destructive thing here is letting a hostile entity remain within the union.
Except that Trump is heavily against China and a Asia-oriented world. So it doesn’t make sense.