Posted on 10/27/2023 4:50:12 PM PDT by Kazan
BUDAPEST, Oct 27 (Reuters) - The European Union's strategy with regards to the war in Ukraine "has failed" and the bloc should create a plan B as the Ukrainians will not win on the frontline, Prime Minister Viktor Orban told Hungarian state radio on Friday.
Orban, speaking in Brussels on the sidelines of an EU summit, said there was a "big battle" especially over support for Ukraine. Orban said he saw no reason for Hungary to send its taxpayers' money to support Ukraine.
The EU is due to decide in December on a revision of its 2021-27 budget worth 1.1 trillion euros ($1.2 trln), which is already strained by emergency spending during the COVID pandemic and since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022.
The bloc's executive proposed that member states chip in more to the shared coffers to provide 50 billion euros to Ukraine and spend another 15 billion euros on migration. Another proposal would allocate 20 billion euros in military aid for Ukraine.
"We found this proposal had not been worked out properly, and was not suitable to be a basis for serious negotiations so we had rejected it," Orban said. "It was a big battle, especially on the Ukrainian issue."
Orban said the biggest problem was that the Brussels strategy to send money and military aid to Ukraine to help its fight against Russia has failed.
"Today everybody knows but they do not dare to say it out loud, that this strategy has failed. Its obvious that this will not work....the Ukrainians will not win on the frontline," he said, adding that a plan B was needed and a cost estimate for that.
"Once we know how much that costs, we can share that burden among ourselves."
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What? You don’t believe Orban said this?
Putin raised rates to 15% today.
That’s what happens when the currency declines 50% and imports suddenly cost twice as much.
It’s soon to be called hyperinflation.
He being milked by the enablers into oblivion.
What I clearly heard Johnson say is Ukraine has to account exactly how the money was spent!
No one else holds them accountable.
Not one cent, not one soldier, not one bullet for the evil Zelensky Dick Tatorship !
Orban is wrong as usual. Ukraine is still Ukraine after nearly two years of genocidal invasion by the biggest country in the world. If that isn’t successful policy nothing is.
You maybe want to look at what’s happened to our interest rate and why… Hint: Similar reasons.
“Conditions… accountability…objectives”
This is lawyer talk, and the setup for a big NO.
You may as well go ahead and ink a new map of the ukraine.
Orban is one of the planet’s greatest political leaders. That the Globalist-Marxist warmongering peanut gallery hates him is all we need to know how good and right he is.
I’m fine with sending humanitarian aid and letting them buy weapons. No troops or other aid for Ukraine until our borders are actually secured. Ukraine is not a formal ally of the US - we should be reinforcing Poland, an actual ally, in case Russia goes after them.
Alliances should mean something and there should be consequences for not being an ally.
That’s all they do is talk, because they’re too chicken to go to Kiev and fight for their globalist dick tator Zelensky.
I would but the dollar is stronger not weaker.
Allowing the corrupt regime of the Ukraine to buy weapons from us is an explicit provocation to Russia. We need to absolutely stay out of it. Foreign entanglements as such trigger all-out wars, and that’s gotten us precisely nowhere.
LOL. Orban is a vapid contrarian who plays the politically naïve like a fiddle.
“I would but the dollar is stronger not weaker”
Are you on drugs?
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No, I have no doubt that he said it, because he’s been a Putin toadie from the start, completely ignoring what the Muscovites did to Hungary in 1956. But it’s not going to matter.
I should have said that was about as far as I’d go. However, I’m still fine with it because the Russians know they were supplying weapons to America’s enemies for decades. It’s just how things were done.
The fact the worst trolls on FR hate him shows just how great he is. Meanwhile, you guys worship the degenerate Dick Tator Zelensky. Says it all.
On FOREX, maybe, but in terms of purchasing power, the dollar is rapidly weakening all the same.
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