In a May 12 speech in Budapest, at a meeting of Presidents of EU national parliaments, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban stated that the war in Ukraine “is lost,” although “nobody dares to say it.” Sanctions against Russia have backfired and have undermined Europe’s competitiveness. “The world is being transformed on a scale comparable only to the birth of the modern nation-state,” Orban said, citing the examples of China and India. “We are trying to solve tomorrow’s problems with yesterday’s answers,” he said.