BAC News: Orbán does the triple strike
Kiev, Moscow and then Beijing
Published: 2024-07-09
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Announcer: Our special correspondent Reuters has some breaking news from East Asia. What's up Reuters?
Reuters: Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban arrived in Beijing on Monday for talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping, Orban's press chief told state news agency MTI.
Announcer: Wow! Orbán really is getting about now that he's got the rotating presidency of the Council of Europe, isn't he? What's he up to?
Reuters: "Prime Minister Viktor Orban's peace mission continues," Bertalan Havasi was quoted as saying.
A: He's serious about his efforts to find a solution to Europe's biggest problem. Didn't he just visit Kiev and Moscow too?
R: This is Orban's third surprise overseas trip since Hungary took over the European Union's rotating presidency at the beginning of July, after he traveled to Ukraine and Russia last week on what he called a "peace mission".
A: So Orbán's travels and mission were a 'surprise' were they? Nobody in Europe thought that some leader might actually stand up and try and find a solution to a war which threatens the use of nuclear weapons in Europe? Indicative of the cowardice of the current crop of European politicians, perhaps.
R: His trip to Moscow drew strong rebukes from his allies.
A: Some allies they are. Wasn't it the trio of unelected stooges, van der Crazy, Borrell and Michel?
R: Hungary, under right-leaning Orban,
A: Who gives a toss which way he leans if he's trying to create, peace, Reuters?
R: ... has become an important trade and investment partner for China, in contrast with some other European Union nations seeking to become less dependent on the world's second-largest economy.
A: Less dependent, eh? Like "less dependent on affordable Russian energy"? I mean, how can Europe beat China on price for the goods they are importing now that their energy costs have risen so much? It sounds like Orban is not only seeking peace but also making intelligent decisions for Hungary's economy.
Oh, and while we're there, China is the largest, not second-largest, world economy. Get your facts straight, Reuters.
R: Orban's visit also came days before a NATO summit that will address further military aid for Ukraine against what the Western defence alliance has called Russia's "unprovoked war of aggression".
A: Reuters, are you being clever there and suggesting that the US and EU are controlled by their "defence establishment" with your use of "defence alliance"? You then use the past tense for "unprovoked"? Are you doing a blame shift here? I wonder if the Nazi pogrom by Ukraine against the Russian ethnic people of the Donbas is starting to bleed through West's news feeds?
Any more innuendo on what Orbán's up to in China?
R: Hungary's foreign minister, Peter Szijjarto, was accompanying Orban on the China trip, according to photographs on Szijjarto's Facebook page.
A: Reuters, if your news is starting to be based on scraping pics off Facebook, we might need to review your contract. Seriously. So, Orban has his foreign minister with him. One images that this is so that serious discussions can be continued while he and President Xi keep the news hounds happy. It would also enable Szijjarto to build trust with his Chinese counterpart so that if Orbán positions himself as an interlocutor to fix the lost war, then his Foreign Minister will be well positioned to assist. Clever.
Anything else?
R: The foreign ministry canceled late last week a meeting for Monday in Budapest with Germany's foreign minister and Szijjarto, a German foreign ministry official said on Friday.
A: Yes, we heard about that. Didn't Analena Baerbock, AKA 720i, start lecturing Orbán about where he could and could not travel? Pretty stupid, that. Did Orbán flip her some advice about Foreign Ministers lecturing Prime Ministers. Ya know, the hint is in the title?
R: <silence>
A: He just had his FM stand her up then ...
R: Orban, a critic of Western military aid to Ukraine who has the warmest relations of any EU leader with Russian President Vladimir Putin, said last week he recognized he had no EU mandate for the trip to Moscow, but that peace could not be made "from a comfortable armchair in Brussels".
A: Yeah, and didn't he say something about it takes a politician to address political problems and that bureaucrats should just get back to providing policy recommendations? Maybe not.
Thanks for the update, Reuters.
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[archived] Hungary PM Orban arrives in Beijing for talks with Chinese President Xi, (no author), Reuters, 2024-07-07
At 75, NATO Needs a Neurological Exam, McGovern and Scheer, Scheerpost, 2024-07-09
Hungary Initiates REAL Peace Talks With Russia! Orban Visits Putin! Globalist Furious!, Pascal Lottaz, Neutrality Studies, 2024-07-06
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