In an interview with the Patrióta YouTube channel on Sunday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said European politicians tended to think of the nuclear bomb mostly as a “tactical tool of deterrence” and not something that actually needed to be used.
The prime minister added that the problem was that no one had thought in the Second World War that the Americans would use nuclear bombs. PM Orbán said he considered discussions about nuclear weapons a “bad omen”. “The expression ‘NATO mission in Ukraine’ makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand up,” the prime minister said. He said talk of tactical nuclear weapons, depleted-uranium munitions, a world war itself, and sending a defence alliance’s troops outside its territory was “terrifying”. He said resistance to these things was not as strong among Westerners as it was among Hungarians, adding that “we’re now in the midst of a process which ten years from now may be spoken of as part of the prelude to the third world war.” Concerning the assassination attempt against Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, PM Orbán said he had been shocked by the attack, and his first thought had been worry for his counterpart’s life. His second thought, he said, had been that he would be “left on his own” in Brussels with his stance on the war and that he would have “all kinds of extra security rules” forced on him.