Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán spoke at the closing ceremony of a university in Baile Tusnad, Romania, which reportedly had more than 7,000 people who gathered to listen. During his remarks, Orbán discussed many topics of the current situation in Europe and the world as a result of the collapsing Western system. He said: “What we are facing is actually a world system change. And this is a process starting from the direction of Asia. To put it briefly and primitively, in the next long, long decades, but maybe in centuries, because the previous world system also overlapped for 500 years, Asia will be the dominant center of the world. China, India, Pakistan, Indonesia, and so on.…”
“Even now, the West issued its expectation, its instruction, that the world should take a stand against Russia and stand by the West on a moral basis. In contrast, the reality has become that everyone is slowly supporting Russia,” Orbán said. For some countries this was not surprising, he remarked. But for others, such as India and NATO-member Türkiye, as well as the Muslim world, this was “completely unexpected….”
“The war revealed the fact that the biggest problem in the world today is the weakness and disintegration of the West,” the prime minister said. “Of course, the media do not claim this; in the West they claim that the biggest danger in the world is the problem of Russia and the danger it represents. This is a mistake.”
Orbán went on to state that Russia has “hyper-rational leadership,” which is “understandable and predictable.” “On the other hand, the behavior of the West … is not understandable, it is not predictable, the West did not lead, its behavior is not rational, and it cannot handle the situation.” He focused on the West’s forcing of LGBTQ rights on countries around the world, which if not accepted, these countries are labeled as “backward.” He pointed out that Ukraine, Japan, and Taiwan have all adopted LGBTQ legislation in the past six months as a result. But “the world does not agree with this,” he said, and therefore Putin’s strongest tactical weapon is his resistance to the West’s attempts to impose this worldwide.
In another provocative statement, Orbán pointed to the Nord Stream sabotage as further evidence of the duplicity and corruption existing in the West: “The fact that we remain silent about the bombing of the Nord Stream pipeline, that Germany itself remains silent about an obvious act of terrorism carried out with American oversight against its own property, and that we do not investigate, do not seek to clarify, and do not raise this legally—just as we did not act correctly regarding Angela Merkel’s wiretapping, which was executed with Denmark’s help—this is nothing but an act of submission.”
He situated his comments within the overall theme that Europe must again become independent and stand up for its own interests amidst the changing world system.
