Defense Minister Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky said the globalist world model has failed, and the future belongs to patriots.
Speaking at the CPAC Hungary 2025 on Thursday, Minister Szalay-Bobrovniczky said that after the Cold War, "rather than becoming stronger, the West turned upon itself and started questioning its own history ... and forgot that freedom is not a legacy but something we have to protect every day."
"While others grapple with their past, we patriots see increasingly clearly that identity is not a burden but a stance, that the nation is not an outdated concept but a force that shapes the law, and sovereignty is not a hindrance to cooperation but a requirement," he said.
The defense minister said that patriots believed that the future of the nation was written "not in imperial centres but at home", building on its own traditions, culture and community. Patriots, he added, were unapologetic about their national identity because "we are not a multinational company or a global corporation but people of flesh and blood..." he said.
In the 21st century, wars were not only fought with weapons, he said. "The front lines are in our heads: they are attacking our culture, faith and way of thinking, because they know they can win without weapons if they can take away the truth and re-shape our identity."
The current government has "rebuilt" the Hungarian Armed Forces, "not as a threat but out of respect, because we know that ... we must protect the country," the defense minister added.