It’s good that Trump is coming back, because now the US is playing with fire in Ukraine – OFFNews

“It is time for political poker, where the bets and payouts on the lives of thousands of people every day, come to an end. ”

This was said by President Rumen Radev during the war in Ukraine and the decision of the United States to allow Kiev to launch long-range American missiles at Russian territory.

According to Radev, any escalation at this time is a dangerous game with fire, and the return of President Donald Trump to the White House gives hope that the war will end.

Rumen Radev reiterated his opinion that Europe needs security, and that Bulgaria is interested in establishing peace, as our country is a close neighbor in the armed conflict.

The President spoke to journalists after participating in the Ground Forces holiday commemoration in front of the Pantheon of those who died in the Serbo-Bulgarian War “Mother Bulgaria” near Slivnica. At the time of the problems faced by the Bulgarian army, related to the lack of people, Radev said that he has been asking for a long time not for urgent measures, but for urgent measures in this regard, emphasizing also reduce the number of candidates for future officers. army, as well as the soldiers.

“I expect that the National Assembly and the government will fulfill their promise, as specified by law, to increase the salaries of military personnel from January 1,” Radev said.

In his words, our country, due to the complex security environment in the region, cannot allow the outflow of the army to continue: “We must have a strong and capable army that we can trust to have and the most important thing. in the army are the people’.

“The oligarchy with Magnitsky’s permission is consuming the state with big bites”

The President also commented on the domestic political situation. Radev said that “condescension and reconciliation with the corruption of all institutions and their transformation into clubs, with open corruption, with the capture and destruction of all businesses, with the umbrella over the main characters in the robbery of KTB, with the simplification of the place Bulgarian political, inevitably leading to the breakdown of the state defense forces”.

When asked about the allegations that the government implemented a caretaker in the interest of “DPS-New Beginning”, the president gave as an example “the speed with which the Council of Ministers provided, after a request, a building in the center of Sofia for the needs. of the creation, in which almost without warning government officials live on the street”.

“Do we still have to ask ourselves: Who and how makes decisions in government and what kind of rule of law can we even talk about, while the oligarchy allowed under Magnitsky wastes the state with big bites? ” said Radev.

During the work of the National Assembly and the still unfulfilled election of its chairman, the president expressed the expectation for more purpose and work resolution, and not to stop the next elections, due to the situation the country is in. finding itself, as well as the environment in the area:

“It is as if the parties are forgetting their main task after the elections – to create a majority that will install a government”.

Regarding the expectations of Romania’s full membership in Schengen from next year, the president said that Bulgaria and Romania are moving together in this process, but he urged not to rush with speculation about the positive news to be expected.

The head of state announced that he held in-depth discussions on the subject at the recent Budapest Conference of the European Political Community with several European leaders, including those of Austria, the Netherlands , and the European Commission.