I think I’d rather take my chances outside that disintegrating bubble. I mean, if I just go along and have the safe WEF and neo-liberal mainstream thoughts and opinions on Orban like you do, “Orban bad, Western media good!”, will I have to live in the pods and eat the bugs? “Bugs good, cows bad!, lockdowns good, printing too much money good, Urkaine can win this thing with more money and weapons, any second now.” All I need is a lobotomy and a pod. So, do I have our choices figured out right here? Either we can live under right-leaning pseudo (or-real) strong-men ruling over us, or a propagandized, shaped, ruled and controlled left-leaning so called “democracy”, that pretends to allow freedom yet seems to want everyone in a sort of pro-queer, mono-culture and has absolutely shown its authoritarian teeth, and will not hesitate to label someone a racist, or anti-science, or bigoted (true or not) if it can take them out. US conservatives will no doubt feel themselves gracious in granting such a large platform to the leader of such a small nation - but Orbán may, in truth, be running rings around them.įourth generation Texan, living in Southern Europe here… I suppose I will speak up… “In the shadow of the current Russia-Ukraine war, they have started to strongly encourage their allies - that would be us - to buy shipments from the USA.” Describing the wider economic impacts of the war, Orbán said that “the European Union is doing badly” but “the big American companies are doing well… Exxon’s profits will double in 2022, Chevron’s will quadruple, and ConocoPhillips’ will increase sixfold.”
During his Romania speech, Orbán described how the EU’s Russia sanctions have “only added” to America’s long-term strategy - also pursued under Trump - of using energy as a “foreign policy weapon”. What Republicans may not have picked up on, though, is Orbán’s belief that the USA and Europe have divergent interests in Ukraine: that the war harms Europe economically but benefits America. Orbán can therefore be expected to use his time in America to cultivate anti-war sentiments among a potential future US administration - after meeting with the Hungarian leader on Tuesday, Donald Trump wrote that “ few people know as much about what is going on in the world today ”.
As such, Hungary needs “a different plan” for Democrat and Republican rule. Orbán doesn’t expect such a view to prevail in America under the Biden administration, claiming that only after US presidential elections in 2024 can “ the first real opportunity for peace ” be anticipated. International headlines about his Romania speech focused on the race angle, but the (much longer) section intended for domestic consumption was all about the war: specifically, Orbán’s belief that the West has bet on a losing horse in Ukraine and that the best possible outcome would be an immediate, enforceable peace. Why? Because Orbán will see his visit to America as a golden opportunity to bring Republicans around to his point of view on a far more pressing issue: the war in Ukraine. The international media don’t seem to realise that this was probably his intention all along. Amid the tumult, one thing’s for sure: Orbán’s “race-mixing” speech has generated ample publicity for his big appearance in Texas.
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