{"id":320547,"date":"2025-12-27T06:00:45","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T06:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=320547"},"modified":"2025-12-28T08:41:59","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T08:41:59","slug":"next-years-election-is-a-choice-between-peace-and-war-warns-hungarian-pm-orban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=320547","title":{"rendered":"Next year\u2019s election is a choice between peace and war, warns Hungarian PM Orb\u00e1n"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Thomas Brooke \u2013 rmx news Dec 23, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orb\u00e1n has said that recent anti-war rallies in Hungary serve to explain to the public what he described as decisions being taken behind closed doors as Europe prepares for war.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on TV2\u2019s T\u00e9nyek program, he said European leaders at a summit over the weekend had effectively convened a \u201cwar council,\u201d with speeches focused on defeating Russia, and argued that a growing divide has emerged between the United States and Europe since the inauguration of Donald Trump in January.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPreviously, it was unthinkable within NATO that the United States would say no to something and European states would still go ahead and do it,\u201d the prime minister said.<\/p>\n<p>Orb\u00e1n warned Europe is much closer to war than most Hungarians realize, noting what he described as a German war plan to seize Russian currency reserves held in Western Europe, a move he claimed that would openly turn Europe into Russia\u2019s enemy.<\/p>\n<p>According to the prime minister, Hungary will now have a war-free Christmas, but the danger has not passed. He said the European Union wants to provide Ukraine with \u20ac90 billion over two years, despite having no funds of its own, and is therefore seeking loans from banks that he claimed would never be repaid. Orb\u00e1n said Slovakia, the Czech Republic, and Hungary refused to provide guarantees for the borrowing. \u201cThis would have cost Hungarian families 400 billion forints. We will not pay that \u2014 full stop,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u26a0\ufe0f Even supporters of the \u20ac9\ufe0f\u20e30\ufe0f\u20e3bn Ukraine loan concede it will not be repaid. The result is budget cuts and permanent debt for Europe. \u27a1\ufe0f This is not economic policy, but financing the continuation of war. \uf1ed\uf1fa Hungary will not take part. We stand with peace. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/r9zmB3yBQD\">https:\/\/t.co\/r9zmB3yBQD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bal\u00e1zs Orb\u00e1n (@BalazsOrban_HU) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BalazsOrban_HU\/status\/2002779366041031041?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 21, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Orb\u00e1n argued that Europe has more private-sector assets in Russia than the value of the funds it would have seized, adding that Hungary also holds significant corporate assets there. He expressed hope that U.S.-Russian negotiations would succeed despite what he called counter-campaigning by Europe\u2019s political elite. He claimed that anti-war views now dominate Western public opinion as the economic costs of the conflict rise.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Hungary knows what war means. Two lost world wars, millions dead, decades of progress erased. War does not build nations, it devours their future. This memory of loss lives in our very core, in our instincts. Others seem to remember only vaguely, falling into speculation and\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/u8AanMiHFu\">pic.twitter.com\/u8AanMiHFu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Orb\u00e1n Viktor (@PM_ViktorOrban) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PM_ViktorOrban\/status\/2003422011435917369?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 23, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom a Hungarian perspective, war is the most horrific thing that can happen,\u201d he said. \u201cWe know how a war consumes a nation\u2019s future and decades of hard work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister also argued that financial interests are pushing politicians toward conflict. He said bankers were driving Europe toward war, as they did before World War I, and claimed that within months the divide between Hungarian and European politics would become even clearer. Germany, he said, is pro-war, as is the European People\u2019s Party, while his administration in Budapest represents what he called the party of peace.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will not allow ourselves to be dragged into war,\u201d Orb\u00e1n said, adding that Europe\u2019s stated aim of being ready for war with Russia by 2030 turns Hungary\u2019s upcoming elections into a choice between peace and war. \u201cWe \u2014 and I personally \u2014 will succeed in keeping Hungary out of the war,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Turning to domestic policy, Orb\u00e1n spoke of what he described as a \u201ctax revolution,\u201d saying the government had launched fixed-rate home-ownership and business loan programs, restored the fourteenth-month pension, and introduced lifetime tax exemptions for mothers with two or three children. \u201cBy the end of the year, every program was launched. Only we are doing this in an era preparing for war,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>On the opposition Tisza Party, Orb\u00e1n said, \u201cThe Tisza Party\u2019s program is Brussels\u2019 program. But Hungary must not take the Brussels path \u2014 we must stay on the Hungarian path.\u201d He added that Hungary\u2019s low household energy prices could only be maintained through agreements with Russia, the United States, and Turkey, warning that EU plans to scrap the policy would amount to \u201cbrutal austerity\u201d for families.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rmx.news\/article\/next-years-election-is-a-choice-between-peace-and-war-warns-hungarian-pm-orban\/\">Source\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hungarian prime minister says that EU leaders are acting like a war council, while Hungary is working to keep out of the looming conflict with Russia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":274774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-320547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-russia","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=320547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320548,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320547\/revisions\/320548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/274774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=320547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=320547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=320547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}