Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told the ruling Fidesz party’s campaign launching event that Europe was balancing on the borderline between oppression and freedom, and its route would be decided at the upcoming election.
“It appears that after saving freedom in Budapest, we have the task of saving it in Brussels, too,” he added. “Brussels has a pro-war majority now, there is an atmosphere of war in Europe and politics are ruled by a war logic,” PM Orbán said. Preparations are being made for war everywhere, with the NATO secretary-general wanting to set up a NATO mission for Ukraine, Orbán said. “European leaders have drifted into war and they consider the war their own, fighting it as their own war,” Orbán added. He said that at first they only talked about supplying helmets, which was followed by sanctions. Initially, energy was not sanctioned but eventually, it was also affected, he said. Then came weapons — initially firearms, then tanks and aircraft — followed by financial support. “Further and further tens of billions, by now we stand at around 100 billion, in euros,” PM Orbán added. He said the situation was not improving, but quite the opposite, with the West being only one step away from sending soldiers to Ukraine. Orban said it was a vortex of war that could drag Europe deep down. “Brussels is playing with fire,” he added. “We Hungarians know what war is like, we’ve been involved in it often enough,” he said, adding that he was convinced that “we must stay out of this war”. “This is not our war, we do not want a war and we do not want Hungary to once again become a plaything of the great powers,” he said. “As a result, we must hold on to peace, at home, in Brussels, in Washington, in the UN, and also in NATO,” he added.