New World War is 'Realistic Threat', Says Orbán
- 3 Apr 2023 5:55 AM
- Hungary Matters
Since the war in Ukraine is going on in “Hungary’s neighbourhood”, the conflict is “worrying and dangerous”, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told public radio on Friday, adding that “our security is being jeopardised”.
“As more and more decisions are passed on using ever newer and stronger weapons” and “the West provides Ukraine with more and more modern equipment … the threat of a world war is no literary exaggeration,” Orbán said.
While “it could sound extremely exaggerated when some European and American leaders say that if all goes on like this we could arrive at the third world war, it is a realistic danger at the moment” he said.
“Everybody feels that this conflict could become a world war and they, too, could be affected,” Orbán said. Western Europe’s “pro-war stance is based on moral considerations: they think that the war and Ukraine must be supported because that is the right thing to do”, he said.
“Hungary, however, thinks that it is peace that must be supported on a moral basis, and the world is rather in support of the Hungarian position,” he added.
According to Orbán, Hungary is subject to “direct and indirect pressure”. “They want to force us into this war,” he said, adding, however, that parliament could not be bypassed when a decision is being made on “such a weighty matter”.
“Whether Hungary should participate, and if yes in what way, or stay out of this war” could only be decided by parliament, Orbán insisted.
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