{"id":3156,"date":"2025-02-22T19:08:06","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T20:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/?p=3156"},"modified":"2025-02-22T20:28:55","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T20:28:55","slug":"ukraine-will-be-a-buffer-state-orban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/22\/ukraine-will-be-a-buffer-state-orban\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine will be a \u2018buffer\u2019 state \u2013 Orban"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Hungarian PM has said that instead of being admitted into NATO, Kiev will remain a partition between the bloc and Russia<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ukraine will not be granted NATO membership, but rather will serve as a \u201cbuffer\u201d<\/em> between the US-led military bloc and Russia, once the conflict with Moscow is over, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has predicted.<\/p>\n

Since the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in February 2022, Budapest has consistently criticized the EU\u2019s weapons deliveries to Ukraine. The Hungarian government has long advocated engaging Moscow in dialogue instead, with Orban repeatedly calling for sanctions imposed on Russia to be lifted.<\/p>\n

Delivering his annual state of the nation address in Budapest on Saturday, the prime minister said that the conflict, which \u201cis on its way to its end,\u201d<\/em> is about \u201cbringing the territory called Ukraine, which until then was a buffer zone, a buffer state between NATO and Russia, under NATO control.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cUkraine, or what remains of it, will once again be a buffer zone. It will not be a NATO member,\u201d<\/em> Orban predicted.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy European and American liberals thought that the Russians would stand idly by is still a mystery,\u201d<\/em> the official remarked, claiming that the \u201cexperiment has failed.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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Admitting Kiev into the EU will hinge on Budapest\u2019s acquiescence, he added, hinting that Hungary would block Ukraine\u2019s accession, should it deem it to be in its own national interests.<\/p>\n

Speaking in late December, Orban claimed that EU leaders \u201care living in a self-created bubble, refusing to acknowledge that this war cannot be won in the way they imagine.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The official reiterated that the bloc\u2019s sanctions, \u201cinstead of crippling Russia\u2026 have weakened Europe.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cUkraine\u2019s defeat is not just possible but increasingly likely,\u201d<\/em> the Hungarian prime minister warned at the time.<\/p>\n

Earlier that month, Orban pointed the finger at former US President Joe Biden for the escalation of hostilities in 2022.<\/p>\n

Russia has consistently cited Ukraine\u2019s aspirations of joining NATO and the prospect of the bloc\u2019s military infrastructure appearing in the neighboring nation as one of the main reasons behind the conflict. Moscow has also repeatedly described the conflict as a \u201cproxy war\u201d<\/em> against Russia being waged by the West via Ukraine.<\/p>\n

US President Donald Trump has recently ruled out Kiev\u2019s accession to NATO, acknowledging that Washington ignoring Moscow\u2019s objections on the issue was among the things that caused the conflict to flare up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Hungarian PM has said that instead of being admitted into NATO, Kiev will remain a partition between the bloc and Russia Ukraine will not be granted NATO membership, but rather will serve as a \u201cbuffer\u201d between the US-led military bloc and Russia, once the conflict with Moscow is over, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3156"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3160,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3156\/revisions\/3160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}