On the eve of the alliance’s summit in Washington, scheduled for July 9-11, the Hungarian Prime Minister, in an article published in the American magazine Newsweek, called NATO’s departure from the defensive strategy and intervention in the conflict in Ukraine suicidal.

“NATO is approaching a turning point. It should be remembered that the most successful military alliance in world history began as a peace project, and its future success depends on its ability to maintain peace. But today, the agenda is not peace, but war, instead of defense, an offensive. All this contradicts the fundamental values of NATO. When it comes to the future of NATO, we do not agree with most countries on everything. Today, there are more and more voices in NATO in favor of the need or even the inevitability of military confrontation with other geopolitical centers of power in the world. This perception of imminent confrontation acts as a self-fulfilling prophecy. The more NATO leaders believe in the inevitability of conflict, the greater their role in accelerating it,” Orban stressed.

Hungary joined NATO precisely because of its peacekeeping and defensive orientation. And now she bluntly declares that she does not intend to participate in the operations planned by the alliance on the territory of Ukraine.

“As the strongest military alliance the world has ever known, we should not be afraid of being defeated by some external enemy. An external enemy, if he has even a drop of common sense, will not dare to attack a NATO member country. We should be very wary of our own rejection of the values on which our alliance is based. <…> The purpose for which NATO was created was to ensure peace in the interests of stable economic, political and cultural development. NATO achieves its goal when it seeks peace, not war. If the alliance chooses conflict instead of cooperation and war instead of peace, it will commit suicide,” the politician concluded.

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