Time for some more propaganda to put one old empire back into the world stage while there's been a never-ending walk-on by Western-friendly + some NATO nations who are financing
Zelenskyy's Ukraine...
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Rishi Sunak has promised the UK’s largest ever military support package for Ukraine, providing vital equipment to Kyiv including 400 vehicles, more than 1,600 missiles, 4m rounds of ammunition, 60 boats, as well as an additional £500m in military funding, taking the total to £3bn this financial year.
Here's one NATO nation - Hungary - speaking up to attract an audience of more than 102,000 viewers for an alternate point of view on financing weapons and ammunition for a war in its third years, and more than $113-billion thrown at it
'Ukraine is not anymore sovereign state', says Hungary's Orban
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(17 Apr 2024)
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1. Various of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban arriving at conference
2. Various of Orban walking on stage, preparing to speak
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Viktor Orban, Hungarian Prime Minister:
“The sense of this European election is - change the leadership. What is election for? The sense of election is that if the leadership proves to be bad, must be replaced. That is so simple. And this leadership of European Union is simply bad. It has failed. So it's not just a political statement, it is very much factual.”
4. Orban on stage
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Viktor Orban, Hungarian Prime Minister:
“I think that nations have the right to decide about their own future. So if somebody would like to make an attempt to create a mixed society, Christian-based with Muslim community, and as liberal thing that the outcome will be something good - let's do it, it is your fate, your future, but don’t force us to do so. That’s what we called the offer of tolerance, what I have made several times to Brussels. I said, 'guys, you can create whatever migration system you would like to do, but don’t force Hungary to do the same thing, because we simply don’t believe.' We think that mixture of two civilizations will not result in good things.”
6. Orban on stage
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Viktor Orban, Hungarian Prime Minister:
“We respect (inaudible) rights of Ukraine, sovereignty of Ukraine, (inaudible) people to maintain their own state. So therefore the invasion of Putin against Ukraine is totally against values of international relations and all the values we respect, so no question of that. But the Hungarian point of interest is that something must be between Russia and Hungary, so this is the number one. So we support Ukraine to survive somehow, which is questioned, because Ukraine is not any more sovereign state. Ukraine is now just the protectorate of the West. So without getting the money and weapons from the European Union and United States, Ukraine as a state would cease to exist. So it is not a sovereign state anymore.”
8. Wide of conference
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Viktor Orban, Hungarian Prime Minister:
“Hungary has always had good economic relations with Russia, so I would not like to give up that kind of cooperation. Because the war between Ukraine and Russia is not the war of Hungarians. It is the war of two Slavic nations, one big Slavic nation attacked another one. And they have a war. And we don’t behave like the Europeans who said - 'oh it is our war, because it is about values, it is about international order, whatsoever, so we are in the war, it is our war but not fully. Because we would not like to die. So, please Ukrainians die, we give the money, give the weapons and defend our values please. So it is not so much our war to go into, to take the lives, to fight there, but just to finance your (inaudible).' So, I don’t like that approach at all.”
10. Wide of conference
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Viktor Orban, Hungarian Prime Minister:
”The reason of the war is very simple. It is called NATO membership. And just as a country who was occupied by the Russians for 45 years, I can say from personal experience that Russians will never allow to have membership of Ukraine as it is now in NATO. For the geopolitical thinking, it is impossible. They will always do everything to have something between the Russian border and NATO countries' border. It could be called Ukraine, it could be war zone, whatever, but a buffer zone must exist between NATO and Ukraine.”
12. Wide of conference
Ukraine no longer sovereign state, says Hungarian Prime Minister Orban
Viktor Orban also stated that it was imperative to return to the negotiating table as peace talks represent the only means of saving lives
BERLIN, June 27. /TASS/. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said he believed that Ukraine was no longer a sovereign state and any potential peace settlement of the conflict in the country would depend largely on the United States, and not on Ukraine itself.
"Ukraine is no longer a sovereign state. It has neither money nor weapons. It can keep on fighting only thanks to the assistance being provided," Orban said in an interview with German daily Bild. "It’s up to the United States to decide when peace will materialize."
"The reality is that cooperation between Ukraine and the West has failed," he continued.
"In my view, the fact that Ukrainians keep fighting on the battlefronts, while we support them financially, and with data and hardware, and [the idea] that they will be able to win this war against Russia, [I believe] that this is an incorrect understanding of the situation.
That outcome [a Ukrainian victory] is not possible."
The Hungarian premier said that if full-fledged negotiations had been conducted at the very beginning of the conflict, countless casualties could have been avoided.
"My stance from the very start has been that we should not allow this conflict to be transformed into a global war, or something on that scale, but rather the conflict should have been isolated and the responsibility for it shifted away from the military brass and onto the politicians and diplomats, because this war should never have happened," the Hungarian prime minister emphasized.
Orban also stated that it was imperative to return to the negotiating table as peace talks represent the only means of saving lives.
More than a quarter century ago, the Ukrainian
people made a historic choice in favor of
independence, democracy, and the free market.
Their vision of a fully sovereign, democratic, and
prosperous state has been only partially fulfilled.
While Ukraine is a clearly established polity
with internationally recognized sovereignty, it
is nonetheless hampered in its democratic and
free market development by endemic corruption,
retrograde political cycles, and aggression by its
powerful neighbor Russia.
After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Ukraine
emerged as a highly pluralistic but unstable
democracy.
Through the 1990s, the country’s
political system developed along two parallel paths,
combining a liberal democratic façade with post-Soviet oligarch-controlled distribution of power
and resources.
The contradictions between these
two dimensions of Ukraine’s politics yielded two
revolutionary cycles, spanning roughly 1992–2004
and 2005–2014.
During each of these cycles, a
period of popularly supported democratic reforms
was soon displaced by simulated democracy, driven
essentially by oligarchic competition and then, later, by authoritarian consolidation, resulting in civic
protests and eventual regime change, resetting
the cycle.
Ukraine’s transition from Soviet republic to fully
democratic state has been inhibited by these
cycles.
It is yet to be determined whether
Ukraine’s democratic development has been
set on a sustainable path in the wake of the
2014 Euromaidan, the process of closer political
and economic association with the European
Union (EU), and the war in Donbas. There are
many reasons to hope this is now the case, but
there is also cause for serious concern about
the sustainability of current reform efforts and
democratic politics.
... Post-Soviet presidentialism
concentrated so much power in one person that
it inherently threatened civil rights and political
representation. Excessive centralization accelerated
the decay of many local community institutions.
Meanwhile, patron-client networks delivered
benefits to some in society, but did so at the cost of
public institutions. These networks emerged as the
main drivers of Ukraine’s systemic corruption. . .
As
a result of these Russian interventions, the military
and security establishment play a far greater role in
Ukrainian government, and some prominent civic
movements draw inspiration and credibility from
war-related ideologies.
These new factors increase
the political weight of the president as military
commander-in-chief, and introduce risks of even
more radical authoritarian tendencies on the part
of political forces that are now entirely outside the
government.
Economic prosperity has been subordinated to
security concerns (as the recent blockades of
Donbas showed). Voters continue to reject most
state institutions as untrustworthy and corrupt.81 The
result is that politics are highly fluid, institutions are
weak, and clans dominate political competition,
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