Courageous Hungarian President Viktor Orbán, newly at the helm of the European Union, has taken up his pilgrim’s staff to try to bring Europe out of a senseless war. He visited Putin and then Xi Jinping in an attempt to simply reopen dialogue. However, he does not have a European mandate to negotiate, as everything goes through the high priestess who negotiates millions of vaccines via SMS without consulting anyone, and she is not happy, obviously, a sign that she wants war. Just like other European protagonists, including Macron, who is also not happy. He wants war, but we already knew that. Orbán’s plane is tracked and monitored, and the Hungarian president is under close scrutiny, indicating that this Europe is waging war not only externally but also internally against its own members who do not fall in line.
For Orbán does not fall in line. Skeptical about the vaccine operation, against the war, he has always advocated dialogue and diplomacy. Critics might say he has no choice, as 90% of his economy depends on Russian gas. So if one fights to keep their country from dying, does that make them a bad European? Orbán, a solitary knight, still has the concern of not burning bridges and not entering a scenario where any solution other than the total annihilation of Russia would be impossible. What do they imagine in Western chancelleries? That winning the war in Ukraine means erasing Russia from the map? That there is no other outcome than killing Putin, dismantling the Red Army, and seeing all its soldiers come on their knees to beg for mercy from the senile old man pulling the strings… let’s be serious.
Orbán seems quite alone in protesting against this Europe, whose functioning is no longer democratic; everyone has realized this, yet we continue, heading for disaster, despite increasingly severe and regular setbacks on the ground. For Zelensky, it’s a desperate rush forward. His mandate has ended, but he clings to power thanks to the war; he doesn’t seem in a hurry to end it either, he should step down. In Ukraine, military personnel roam the cities, forcibly recruiting anyone of fighting age and beyond who loiters in the streets, while a certain privileged youth, definitely of fighting age, continues to live lavishly on the French Riviera, in the home of one of Europe’s worst warmongers, who finds nothing wrong with it. Are we going to fight until the last Ukrainian?
We are eagerly awaiting Trump’s election; the supposedly reviled man is the only American president who has declared no war on anyone. It should be remembered that the USA has been directly involved in more than fifty conflicts since 1945. The Nobel Peace Prize laureate Obama, still involved in Democratic politics, is himself a war-maker: a paradox. Here, Orbán and Bardella have founded a European party and will likely demand explanations, those we should have in a democratic body but do not, everything being deliberately locked down. We wonder what purpose the elected officials serve in these repeated crises where everything is decided, somewhat mysteriously, between unelected commissioners and favored presidents like our Macron who are accountable to no one.
What has the financial aid to Ukraine been used for? Where are the weapons we supplied? Who and how many of our men went there? How many have died? Who made the decisions and under what frameworks? What justifies the United States spending so much money on a war being fought more than 7,000 kilometers away from their home? These questions are valid in France as well as at the European level and add to the lingering questions about the management of COVID, where the overlap of private interests is no secret. There is therefore some hope to be placed in Orbán’s presidency, provided he does not end up, like some other “undesirables,” in a sudden accident…
Edited by Ivan Hajda
