Orban: Central Europe a chessboard for great powers. They see HU as an expendable piece on the board.
US and "Brussels" can't think like Hungarians, so HU gas to represent its own interests. "We must stay out of this war."
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Orban: HU is on the frontier of worlds between E&W, N&S. Around here, wars not fought for us or in our interest. Whoever won, we lost... CE is chessboard for great powers, 4 them HU just a piece on board..If it suits their goals & if HU not strong enough, they will sacrifice HU
Orban: US and Brussels can't think or feel like a Hungarian. HU has to represent its own interests, calmly & bravely. Can't be victims in someone else's war. In this war, HU can't win anything, but can lose everything.
"We must stay out of this war."
Orban: Not a single can Hungarian can get caught between the Ukrainian anvil and the Russian hammer. So HU will send no soldiers or weapons to the battlefields.
Orban: opposition would walk into a “cruel, protracted and bloody war,” and wants to send troops & guns to frontline. Can’t let this happen. We won’t let oppo turn HU, HU ppl & Transcarpathian HU ppl into a military target.
Orban: We Hungarians know very well who pockets the profits from wars like this. We are strong enough, and we will resist the plans of the left and the war-troublemakers who stand behind them.
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1/ @PatrickKingsley and I unpack the Orban–Trump powwow scheduled for this coming Monday. Some stuff that didn't make it into the piece in the tweets below👇👇👇 nytimes.com/2019/05/12/wor…
2/ I spoke to a number of State Department officials to get the scoop on how they see the meeting. Their quotes to me (and published by me) here in following tweets. These officials, who asked that I not name them for obvious reasons, had this to say about the meeting:
3/ On concern that Mr. Trump would be duped by Mr. Orban during Monday’s high-level visit:
“Kim Jong Un played him for a fool. Vladimir Putin has played him for a fool, so Viktor Orban is going to play him for a fool as well.”