Hungary's Orbán Asks, Why Send Money Down Ukraine's Corrupt Sinkhole?

Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán was provoked by a dunning letter he received from European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. She had sent letters on Nov. 17 to EU capitals, including Budapest, urging immediate action on funds for Ukraine to address its $152 billion budget gap. She again posed to the governments that they had to either come up with money (directly from each country or jointly via EU borrowing) or grab the frozen Russian foreign deposits in the Belgium-based Euroclear. In effect, the bill has come due on the “weaken Russia” campaign, and the “Coalition of the Willing” leaders are willing to detonate the Western financial system rather than end NATO’s expansion to Russia’s borders.