O madžarskem predsedniku vlade Viktorju Orbanu si lahko mislimo, kar si hočemo – od tega, da je populist, da je nacionalist, da ni demokrat, da je ksenofob, da ima ekpanzionistične težnje itd. Vendar pa moramo hkrati priznati, da ima glede sedanje geopolitične situacije in celotnega geopolitičnega konteksta zelo dobro razčiščene pojme. Spodaj je njegov govor na to temo na poletnem taboru. Orbanu je jasno, da v tej vojni v Ukrajini izgubljajo samo Ukrajinci in Evropa, medtem ko glavni promotor vojne ZDA žanjejo velike dobičke. Jasno mu je, da se kuha veliko neurje med dvema velesilama, ZDA in Kitajsko, kot rezultat poskušanja ZDA preprečiti Kitajski postati globalno največja gospodarska in s tem tudi politična velesila. Jasno mu je, da eskalacija napetosti med obema za prevlado lahko pomeni konec sveta in da je mirna koeksistenca med obema možna šele, ko bodo “veliki fantje priznali, da sta na nebu lahko dve sonci“. In jasno mu je, da majhne države tukaj ne igrajo nobene vloge, lahko pa izkoristijo situacijo s pragmatičnim delovanjem v korist lastnih nacionalnih interesov.
We are living through a particularly dangerous period in the history of humanity. These are years of great change. This change is affecting every corner of the globe and every country, so if we want to say something valid about Hungary, about Hungarians in the Carpathian Basin, we must first talk about the world. The essence of my message is that the balance of power in the world has shifted, and now we are suffering the serious consequences of this. Looking back, we see that for eighty years after the Second World War there was a balance of power in the world. For us Hungarians, this period consisted of two parts. There was the first forty-five years, when the Anglo-Saxons handed us over to the Soviet communists – and, incidentally, back then they were not as squeamish about the Russians as they are now. And then there has been the second period, of thirty-three years so far, when we have been able to live in freedom without military occupation, the Soviet Union and communists. Although this was a huge change over eighty years, the balance of the world was not upset, because we managed to lead the Soviet Union out of the parade of history without a war. But now China has shifted the balance of the world. This is one of the Western world’s old fears. Even Napoleon said, “Let China sleep, for when she wakes she will shake the world.” How this situation has come about is instructive.


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