– I’m sorry, Tisza-aligned left, but once again, Viktor Orban isn’t just right — he will be proven right!” Miklos Szantho declared on social media. The director of the Center for Fundamental Rights supported his statement with three plus one arguments.
The Budapest peace summit is, above all, of generational significance because it could bring an end to the Ukraine war, which began due to genuine Russian aggression but escalated globally with the “assistance” of Brussels. The possibility of a Trump-Putin meeting on Hungarian soil brings peace within reach, Szanthó pointed out as his first argument.
In his second point, the think tank chief highlighted that the summit also carries a strong current political and domestic dimension:
it demonstrates that much of what the mainstream leftist-liberal press claims or implies about Hungary and Prime Minister Orban is simply not true. Hungary is moving in the right direction on the highway, while they are the helicopter.
Just as with the government's previous unorthodox economic policies, utility cost reduction scheme and border protection, they also tried to deny the essence of Hungary’s position on the peace mission, portraying it as either pointless, ridiculous, or barbaric. Once again, it became clear: their problem wasn’t just with the position itself, but primarily with the fact that it was Hungarian, Mr. Szantho stressed.
Now that the world’s leading powers believe that Budapest is suitable to host such a summit precisely because of its sober, realistic, and pro-peace approach, all prior fake arguments fall apart: the claims that “Orban has opted out of the club of those who know how to dine with knife and fork,” that “he is isolated,” or that “no one takes him seriously anymore”—all disproven, wrote Szanthó. He added that a new world order is emerging, global power structures are shifting, and while Brussels is incapable of responding effectively, the Hungarian right understands the dynamics around them and uses this insight to identify and advance Hungary’s interests:
This is what's called connectivity — building strong relations with every key player. Thanks to this approach, the world’s eyes are now truly on Hungary.
Of course it turns out that the EU’s blindfoldedly hawkish, pro-war policies based on the formation of blocs —of which the domestic leftist media, including Peter Magyar’s circles, are an integral part — happen to be in a dead end, leading Europe down the path of irrelevance – he added.
