“What the Europeans are doing is wrong, they are not aiming for a ceasefire and we are not seriously taking into account all the consequences of supporting a country that is engaged in a war that cannot be (won),” did he declare.
Ukraine is now only a “protector” of the West, he added, because without money and weapons from the EU and the United States, Ukraine “as a “State will cease to exist,” Orbán said.
Echoing one of Putin’s favorite justifications for his full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Orbán said the conflict was over kyiv’s potential NATO membership and that the Russian leader would never back down on that. .
“They will always do everything they can to ensure that there is something between the Russian border and the border of NATO countries,” he said. “A buffer zone must exist.”
The conference, attended by prominent conservatives such as Britain’s Nigel Farage and former Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, began on Tuesday at Claridge, a venue close to the European Quarter. But the gathering turned chaotic when local police arrived, at the request of the local mayor, to end the jamboree.
Organizers were able to continue the conference on Tuesday, although police remained at the door and prevented new arrivals from entering.
A Belgian court ultimately overturned the local mayor’s order and allowed the conference to take place on Wednesday without interference.
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