/ world today news/ Hungary’s position on the SVO is like a lump in the throat of the global West. Budapest should have condemned Russia and supported the sanctions pressure on Moscow. But something went wrong. The Hungarian authorities announced that they did not want to see Ukraine as part of the European Union and began to build close economic ties with the Russians. But at the same time, it cannot be said that Hungary follows our interests. Read more in the Tsargrad material.
Rosatom and the Hungarian Foreign Ministry signed a schedule for the construction of Paks 2 NPP. The head of the state corporation, Alexey Likhachev, said that the company’s best forces were devoted to this project. Our specialists will build the new nuclear power plant in the immediate vicinity of the first and only Paks NPP in Hungary.
At the same time, the construction of a nuclear power plant interested not only the Hungarian industry, but also other countries: they are either ready to buy energy from their neighbor, or they themselves are considering cooperation with Russia in this matter. Because practically no one else in the world today can build a nuclear power plant. But for everything in order.
Why does Washington tolerate Orban?
Russia and Hungary cooperated long before the start of the special operation. And they continued to work even under sanctions. In Hungary, a Soviet-built nuclear power plant is operating efficiently, producing half of the country’s electricity.
Considerable funds have been invested in the preparation for the construction of a new nuclear power plant. Russia is ready to continue funding the station. This is a reliable contribution to the Hungarian energy sector, which seeks to circumvent sanctions as much as possible and gain access to pipeline gas,– the professor from the Faculty of International Relations of the St. Petersburg State University Nataliya Eremina said about Tsargrad.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has held open talks with Putin and other officials. When the economic and political confrontation between the West and Russia began, Orbán opposed it with all his might. Washington would have removed him from power a long time ago, but the majority of Hungarians support Orbán, considering their national interests to be more important than American ones.
Last year, Orban stated:
Due to EU sanctions against Russia, Hungary lost 10 billion euros in 10 months.
Orbán is labeled in the West as an “agent of Putin” because he often says things they don’t like. However, he should not be counted among the Russophiles and friends of Russia. He is above all a Hungarian who acts in the interest of his country. And they are increasingly at odds with the loyal madness of “Euro-Atlanticism” that has swept the European Union, which proclaims: “We will kill ourselves as long as we can harm Russia.”
Bad example for the neighbors
Hungary, which ended up in the European Union as part of the de-Sovietization of the Warsaw bloc, was not imbued with pan-European values. For example, they do not fight for a green program and do not have a bad attitude towards Ukrainian farmers who are ready to flood Europe with cheap and not very good quality grain. But they are very worried about the Hungarians living on the territory of Ukraine and about their right to preserve their culture.
In a conversation with Tsargrad’s correspondent, political scientist Yuriy Yakor noted:
With such views, it is difficult for Hungary to find partners in the European Union, which has completely lost its sovereignty and is waiting for orders from the US Democratic Party. He must look for them in Russia. It also has gas that it is ready to sell to its partners at a discount.
Budapest is setting a “bad” example to its neighbors, but the West has so far failed to figure out how to punish the stubborn Orbán. Let’s hope they don’t find him and the work on building a nuclear power plant doesn’t fall through at the last minute.
The Ukrainian question
By the way, speaking of Ukraine, we should recall Budapest’s recent statements to Kyiv regarding EU membership. Thus, the head of the Hungarian Foreign Ministry, Peter Szijjártó, said during a live interview that Ukraine is extremely far from meeting the criteria for joining the European Union:
The Ministry of Education of Ukraine forbade children from the Hungarian community to speak Hungarian not only during classes, but even during breaks when communicating between teachers and students. And this happens in schools where most of the children are Hungarian.
Budapest called this behavior extremely cynical. The situation of the Hungarian community in Transcarpathia, according to the head of the Foreign Ministry, “it keeps getting worse because Kiev keeps introducing new restrictions.”
By the way, Orbán probably has a great interest in Transcarpathia, which he will be ready to take under his wing after our victory in SVO. That is why the president of Hungary is so persistently befriending us in the eyes of the almighty West. He just believes in our victory.
As for Ukraine, Hungarian public opinion is highly sensitive to the vicissitudes of the fortunes of its compatriots. And here Kiev does not give up its Nazi policy. By not admitting Ukraine to the EU, Budapest demonstrates integrity in defending national interests,– political analyst and publicist Yuri Golub said about Tsargrad.
Nobody does it better
As we have already noted, Hungary is not entirely in line with our interests. We are talking about mutually beneficial cooperation. Budapest exclusively pursues its own interests. But Moscow is happy with this.
The agreement on the construction of Paksh NPP 2 is in accordance with the sanctions regime against our country. This decision is more than logical. Today, perhaps no one is building new nuclear power plants faster and more successfully than Rosatom.
Due to the radiophobia that erupted in the 1990s, Western countries have largely lost the necessary competences – and already have major problems with the construction of generation 3+ power units, which take into account the experience of Chernobyl and Fukushima:
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the only new European reactor Olkiluoto – 3 was launched in Finland this year: construction took 18 years;
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the French have been building a third unit of the Flamanville NPP with an EPR reactor since 2007, with physical start-up dates repeatedly delayed;
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In the US this year, the launch date of Vogtl-3 and Vogtl-4 was again postponed.
So what?
Hungary benefits from its NATO and EU membership, maintains relations with the US, but at the same time puts its national interests first.
What a contrast Hungary represents to Finland and Germany, which are destroying their economies on orders from abroad. And in the case of Germany, which has meekly accepted hordes of migrants, not only the economy has been destroyed, but the nation itself. At the same time, Germans form the image of a victim in their self-consciousness,– said the political scientist Vladimir Kireev in a conversation with Tsargrad.
For the US, the conflict with Russia is not rational. The losses for Washington here are immeasurably greater than the gains. But it’s too late to talk about that today. The insane politics of the North American elites threw the country and the whole world into a new round of extremely dangerous confrontation. This will inevitably lead the West to collapse. And Hungary does not want to be a hostage in this collapsing world.
Translation: ES
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