Return
of the Magyars: Hungary’s President Calls Out the US as Morally and
Financially Bankrupt
13
September, 2014
Note
from The Saker: amongst my many blind spots and list of topics I know
practically nothing about there is, to my great shame, the topic of
Hungarian politics. Therefore please address your comments,
criticisms and reactions (and thanks!!!) to American Kulak but not to
me. I am most definitely the least qualified to say anything at all
about this.
Cheers
and enjoy!
The
Saker
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Return
of the Magyars: Hungary’s President Calls Out the US as Morally and
Financially Bankrupt
by
American Kulak
With
so many developments in Ukraine and now a renewed US war on Syria
with the Islamic State as the pretext, it has been easy to overlook
important developments in the struggle to restore sovereign nations
in Europe. As described in my last guest post here at the Vineyard,
Scottish independence vote on Thursday, September 18 has forced
Anglo-American mainstream media to cover the topic of ‘separatism’
as a wave spreading from the Scottish Highlands to Spain’s
Catalonia. Many mainstream media outlets have repeated ridiculous
propaganda about NATO or the EU coming apart and the economic sky
falling from a Scottish ‘Yes’ vote (James Bond film reference
deliberate in that sentence). Some of the usual Russophobic voices
have started whining about ‘pro-Kremlin bloggers’ trolling
Washington and London on Twitter with humorous captions supporting
Scotland’s independence
[https://twitter.com/torrek_info/status/509325448338472960],
or the positive statements Scottish National Party leader Alex
Salmond has made about Vladimir Putin.
[http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/apr/30/alex-salmond-vladimir-putin-remarks]
A
Short Disclaimer Regarding Hungary
Today’s
topic is the next target for the Empire’s Two Minutes Hate
propaganda in Europe (besides Marie Le Pen and the National Front of
France): the ancient nation of Hungary and her proud president,
Viktor Orban. Let me start by saying that as an American citizen and
independent blogger, I have no financial or blood ties to Hungary,
nor is my intent to defend all of Budapest’s policies. My purpose
in this post is to examine why the Empire increasingly views the
Hungarian government with disdain and has sent out its usual NGO and
media mouthpieces to trash President Viktor Orban personally and
attack his ‘Putinist’ pro-Russian worldview. In doing so I
approach this post from the perspective of someone who is a neophyte
to Hungarian politics, but not to the overall games the European
Union plays to keep its member nations as vassals to what Saker calls
the ‘Anglo-Zionist’ Empire.
Why
is Budapest Emerging as a Key Russian Ally Within the European Union?
A
Millennium of Hungarian History and Its Relevance to Novorossiya
The
Hungarians, for those Saker readers who may not be familiar with
their history, are descended from the same great migrations out of
central Asia in the first millennium AD as the Bulgars, with Russian
scholars believing the Magyars came out of a southern Urals homeland
east of the Volga steppe. Driven by ancient enemies known as the
Pechenegs who alternated between warring with the Orthodox Christian
Eastern Roman Empire and serving as mercenaries of Byzantium, the
Hungarians settled in the Danube River and Carpathian basins. Their
language, like that of the Finns, is non-Indo European and easily
exceeds Finnish and Basque as the most widely spoken
non-Indo-European language on the European continent. Only a few
decades after Prince Vladimir baptized the Kievan Rus in 987, the
first Christian monarch of the Magyars Saint Stephen I converted the
traditional seven Hungarian tribes to Christianity in the early 10th
century. Under Stephen’s successful reign prior to the Great Schism
of 1054 between Rome and Constantinople, Hungary prospered as the
major trading route between the Germanic Holy Roman Empire and the
Byzantines. Stephen’s younger sister married a Venetian prince who
at that time was a key ally of Byzantium, while Stephen’s wife was
a Bavarian princess.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_I_of_Hungary]
The
historic parallels between Hungary and Rus did not stop with Stephen
and the Second Rome, but continued in the 13th century. During those
turbulent decades the Mongol Tartars, who subjugated nearly all of
Russia, were turned back by Hungarian knights and their Holy Roman
Empire allies. Unfortunately, wars in the following two centuries
with the Poles and German kingdoms and dynastic struggles weakened
the Hungarians, until they succumbed to the Ottoman Turkish advances
and were forced into alliance with the Catholic Hapsburgs. This also
led to the counter-reformation in the Hungarian lands, with negative
consequences for Protestants and Orthodox Christians alike. In 1686
after the Turks decisive defeat by the Polish-led armies at the
Battle of Vienna the future Hungarian capital of Buda was liberated
from the Ottoman yoke, and the last Ottoman raid from Crimea into
Hungary was recorded in 1717. After the 1708 Battle of Trenscen the
Hungarians were fully absorbed into the Papist Hapsburg Empire which
became known as Austro-Hungary. During World War I the Hungarians
suffered huge casualties fighting the Serbs and Russians on behalf of
their Hapsburg emperor.
After
WWI the key document many Hungarian nationalists to this day regard
with bitterness, the Treaty of Trianon
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Trianon],
was signed in 1920 which cost Hungary 71% of its territory and 66% of
its pre-war population -- an even more punitive outcome than the
Allied diktats imposed on the Germans in the punitive Treaty of
Versailles produced by the same victors. This lost territory included
the TransCarpathian region which is today in far southwestern
Ukraine, where the Hapsburgs had kept thousands of ethnic Rusyns in
concentration camps for returning to Orthodox Christianity or
refusing to convert to Papism during the First World War. It is from
this territory that ethnic Rusyn and ethnic Hungarian community
leaders have issued a joint statement in both languages about their
desire to achieve the full autonomy within Ukraine they were promised
in 1991 and denied since then by Kiev. In the same early August
statement viewable with English subtitles on the Anti-Maidan YouTube
channel, the Hungarian and Russian-speaking Rusyn leaders denounced
Kiev’s war against Novorossiya and mentioned Rusyn/Hungarian
solidarity based on a 1,000 years of peaceful coexistence. This
statement was carried on Hungarian television and is viewable here:
[http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e14_1408064269].
More background on the Rusyns undergoing Hapsburg and other
persecutions from a pro-Rusyn/Russian perspective can be found here:
[http://02varvara.wordpress.com/tag/rusyn/].
It’s
no accident, that on the heavily Empire-manipulated platform of
Wikipedia, the Rusyns are covered under ‘Peoples of Ukraine’
despite the fact that they are spread across borders with Poland,
Slovakia and Hungary, and that the Rusyn autonomy or separatist
movement dating back to 1991 is dismissed as a Kremlin project
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusyns#Trans-Carpathian_separatist_movement].
In short, regardless of Hungary’s willingness to sell the Kiev
regime hundreds of T-72 battle tanks to replace catastrophic
Ukrainian losses of armor in recent months, Kiev views Hungarian
nationalism with suspicion. The Ukrainian ultra-nationalists and
Galicia Nazis (correctly in my opinion) suspect alongside their
Anglo-American globalist patrons that if Ukraine completely implodes
Trans-Carpathia could secede like Novorossiya, but with Hungarian
rather than Russian sponsorship.
The
worst nightmare of the Kiev junta is not only losing Kharkov,
Zaporozhe and Odessa regions to Novorossiya, but facing a
simultaneous NAF and Russian-allied uprising in the
guerrilla-friendly Carpathians backed by Hungarian guns and fighters.
Even a peaceful, anti-war and anti-oligarchic Hungarian/Rusyn Maidan
would have to be crushed by the Kiev Nazis using brutal methods
Washington and Brussels would have trouble excusing or imposing a
news blackout over.
One
other point is relevant to the paragraph above. Under the notorious
1938 Munich agreement between Nazi Germany and her allies and the
Western powers, Hungary made territorial gains at the expense of
Czechoslovakia, which was completely carved up between Nazi Germany,
Hungary, the pro-Nazi Slovak regime of the time, and the sainted
‘Christ between two thieves’ Poles. This included
Carpatho-Ruthenia, which became western Ukraine after the War. The
Nazis cultivated the fascist Arrow Cross Party as allies, and had no
interest in any maintaining Czech-granted autonomy for any
Russophilic peoples as they plotted to invade the Soviet Union.
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZALmLkFmAF8&src_vid=biy1mH8o8_M&feature=iv&annotation_id=annotation_105606].
The
Hungarians participated in Operation Barbarossa and fought alongside
their uneasy Romanian and German allies until the Soviets smashed the
Axis lines near Stalingrad in November 1942. The Hungarians like the
Bulgarians sought to switch sides as soon as it was obvious Nazi
Germany was doomed in mid-1943 but a fascist puppet regime was
installed to keep Hungary in the war. The Arrow Cross Nazi puppet
state collapsed under Red Army guns in early 1945. In October and
November of 1956 a Hungarian uprising against the Soviets was crushed
by Red Army tanks sent by Nikita Khrushchev. This uprising had been
inspired by broadcasts into Hungary by Radio Free Europe, but the
Eisenhower Administration did very little to help the Hungarian
freedom fighters besides raise token protests. Washington notably
refused to cancel US grain shipments to the Soviet Union at that time
and hosted Khrushchev (as pointed out in a recent column by Patrick
J. Buchanan) within months of the Soviets killing thousands of
Hungarians. The anniversary of the October 23rd uprising became a
national holiday in 1989 when Communist regimes across the Warsaw
Pact collapsed. Among the young Hungarian activists celebrating their
country’s return to the West was a then 26-year-old co-founder of
the Hungarian Alliance of Young Democrats, Viktor Orban.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidesz]
Why
President Viktor Orban is Viewed as a Traitor to the Atlanticists and
the Empire
James
S. Denton is listed as the publisher and editor of World Affairs on
his bio. World Affairs is the magazine of Freedom House, one of the
many taxpayer-funded NGOs that has been in the business of regime
change in Eastern Europe and Eurasia since the CIA and State
Department decided to ‘outsource’ these propaganda functions
during the mid-1980s. Interestingly enough, despite Hungarian
President Viktor Orban’s alleged turn towards ‘Putinism’ Mr.
Denton still lists himself as a former adviser to then Prime Minister
Viktor Orban of Hungary here:
[http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/staff-bios].
Presumably Denton was an advisor to Orban in 1998 when the
democratic, anti-Communist reformer became the second youngest Prime
Minister in Hungarian history. With a generally positive world
economy during the years from 1998 to 2002 Orban’s government was
able to cut taxes, abolish university tuition for qualified students,
and expand maternity benefits, while attracting German industry with
low-cost Hungarian labor. Most importantly to the Empire, in 1999
Hungary joined NATO along with Poland and the Czech Republic over
Russia’s objections. That same year Hungary was forced to
participate in the war against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia by
participating in a trade embargo against Belgrade.
In
recognition of Orban’s loyal efforts on behalf of NATO in 2002 he
was awarded the neoconservative American Enterprise Institute’s
Freedom Award and awards from the ‘New Atlantic Initiative’ and
Germany’s ‘Förderpreis Soziale Marktwirtschaft’. Orban was
clearly accepted by the trans-Atlantic elites. But everything started
to change in 2010 when his Fidesz returned to power after six years
in opposition. Suddenly Orban’s party had a two thirds majority,
enough to change the Hungarian constitution, and Orban became a
‘European Hugo Chavez’ in the words of the German Green party
politician Daniel Cohn-Bendit -- ironically, a former 1968 radical
whose younger self would’ve appreciated Red Chavismo. This started
a wave of propaganda against the Hungarian government alleging that
it was crushing the opposition, restricting a free press, in short
demonizing Fidesz as the Hungarian version of United Russia and Orban
as the Hungarian Putin.
To
be fair, Orban did not take the German and Anglo-American/Atlanticist
criticism lying down. He denounced German TV propaganda against
Hungary, reminding Merkel about Nazi occupation of his country during
WWII, and refused to back off the anti-EU rhetoric he had cleverly
promoted since at least 2006. Orban’s critics doubled down on their
shrill rhetoric accusing him of destroying democracy and minority
rights in Hungary, signing sweetheart nuclear energy and gas deals
with Russia, and pandering to the ultra-nationalist if not fascist
Jobbik party which has won 20% of the vote and made anti-Jewish
statements. The same Jobbik party the Empire’s propaganda shills
like Jamie Kirchick of the neocon propaganda-staffel
‘Foundation for the Defense of Democracies’ alleges is part of a
vast Putinist conspiracy to bring right wing parties to power across
Europe using covert Kremlin cash.
[http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/168942/why-hungarys-jobbik-party-won-while-it-lost]
Orban’s
‘Infamous’ ‘Illiberal’ Speech of July 26, 2014 and Why the
Empire (Correctly) Sees It as Treason Against the ‘New World Order’
Which
brings us to the present controversies -- not only over Orban’s
stubborn refusal together with the Austrians to support more
sanctions against Russia over Ukraine, but above all over Orban’s
speech this summer denouncing the USA’s dominance of Europe and the
EU’s subservience to a declining American Empire. To the
Atlanticist elites who had long condemned Orban as an aspiring
dictator -- the ‘Mussolini of Hungary’ as the shriveling
circulation Newsweek dubbed him -- Orban had declared war on
democracy.
[http://www.newsweek.com/hungarys-mussolini-vows-make-eu-member-illiberal-state-262127]
For
Charles Gati, a Senior Research Professor of European and Eurasian
Studies at Johns Hopkins University
[http://www.sais-jhu.edu/charles-gati],
the sense of betrayal was personal: Orban had been one of his
brightest young students in the heady days after the fall of
Communism in Hungary. For Orban to describe the United States as a
malign cultural and economic influence on Europe was a slap to the
face to Gati and others like Freedom House’s James S. Denton who
had groomed Orban to be a reliable satrap of benevolent US hegemony.
Gati’s op-ed for the same AEI that had once given Orban its Freedom
Award was titled, “Putin’s Mini-Me: The Mask is Off”.
[http://www.the-american-interest.com/articles/2014/08/07/the-mask-is-off/]
In his American Interest piece Gati quotes Orbán telling a room in
Washington back in 1998: “whatever I know about contemporary
politics and history I’ve learned from Professor Gati.” Gati
accused his former pupil of issuing an “incoherent” rant against
the USA that made no sense in the original Hungarian or when
translated into English, full of anti-American “clichés”. Nearly
all Western media outlets that covered Orban’s speech delivered to
a group of peaceful Hungarian nationalists at a ‘right-wing’
youth summer camp in late July concurred. No one apparently wanted to
quote the speech or take it seriously as a patriotic cry from the
heart against the decadence and decline of the Western civilization
Orban had embraced as a young man.
The
Essence of ‘Orbanism’ -- Disillusionment with the West and the
Search for a Eurasian Future
My
speech today is not connected to the elections. Our acting president
introduced us as regime changers, and did it by recalling the regime
change. This represents well that for our generation the regime
change is the generational experience to which we compare everything,
against which we measure everything, from where we start to define
everything that happens around us. It seems natural, although it is
rather a disadvantage for us, not an advantage.
As
speeches go, this is hardly controversial stuff. But what follows is
what has angered Washington’s propagandists of unshakable Western
hegemony and unending Anglo-American dominance:
I
would suggest to shortly remind ourselves that in the 20th Century
there have been three major world-regime changes. At the end of World
War I, at the end of World War II, and in 1990. The common points in
these were – I might have mentioned this here once – that when
the changes manifested it was clear for all of us that we are going
to live in a different world overnight. Let’s say it was very clear
here after Trianon [the previously mentioned Hungarian ‘Versailles
diktat’ of 1920 that cut off Budapest from ancient lands - AK],
just as it was in Budapest after World War II as well. If the people
looked around and saw the invading Soviet troops they knew that a new
world was about to begin. In ’90 when we succeeded in breaking and
displacing the communists, it was clear after the first parliamentary
elections that a new world had arrived for us: the wall in Berlin
collapsed, elections were held and this is another future.
Now
I must quote Orban at length, for he gets to the essence of his
statement -- ‘the West’ as a unitary entity led by the USA with a
[soon to be Scotland-less] United Kingdom sidekick looks washed up,
and it’s Davos-attending Western politicians and tycoons themselves
who are saying so. Orban also -- shock, horror -- dismisses the
so-called ‘economic recovery’ in the United States since 2008 as
the middle class destroying, Federal Reserve-pumped up and fake stats
fraud that it is:
The
statement intended to be the basic point of my talk here is that the
changes in the world nowadays have the similar value and weight. We
can identify its manifestation – that point when it became clear –
as the financial crisis of 2008 or rather the Western financial
crisis. And the importance of this change is less obvious because
people sense it in a different way as the previous three. It was
unclear in 2008 during the huge Western financial collapse that we
are going to live in a different world from now on. The shift is not
that sharp as in the case of the three previous world regime changes
and it somehow slowly resolved in our minds, as the fog sets on the
land. If we look around and analyze the things happening around us,
for six years this has been a different world from the one we lived
in. And if we project the processes for the future – which always
has a risk – it is a reasonable intellectual exercise, and we see
well that the changes will only have a bigger impact.
Well,
Honorable Ladies and Gentlemen, for the sake of illustrating the
deepness of this change, without any particular order, I assembled a
few sentences, ideas from the Western World, as well as one or two
from the Eastern World, too, that are stunning. If we assessed them
through the lens of the pre-2008 liberal worldview, we would be
shocked. Yet if we do not view it that way but understand from these
sentences how long a way we have gone in terms of public speech,
topics and their articulations in these last six years, then these
sentences to be quoted will help us understand how profound the
change is that is taking place in the world today.
Very
briefly: In America, the President of the US has made numerous and
repeated statements regarding how America has been engulfed by
cynicism, and the task for American society and the American
government is to declare war on cynicism originating from the
financial sector. Before 2008, such a statement would have resulted
in exclusion from gentlemanlike international discourse, additionally
because of the characteristics of the financial system, it would
probably have even been tainted with as being sinister, making any
utterance of such sentences extremely perilous. Contrary to this,
these ideas constantly appear in the American press as of late. The
US president says that if a hardworking American constantly has to
choose between career and family, that America will lose its place in
the world economy. Or the President openly speaks about economic
patriotism. He [Obama]
says such sentences that would still earn beating and stoning in
today’s provincial Hungarian public life. For example, he openly
speaks about how companies employing foreigners should pay their fair
share in taxes.
Or he openly speaks about how companies employing Americans should be
supported before anyone else. These
are all voices, ideas and sentences that would have been unimaginable
six or eight years earlier.
To
proceed further, according to a well-recognized analyst, the
strength of American “soft power” is deteriorating, because
liberal values today incorporate corruption, sex and violence and
with this liberal values discredit America and American modernization
[This is the so-called ‘cliche’ that Gati found so intolerable,
which appears self-evident to the Kulak and millions of other
Christian and traditionalist Americans - AK]. Also, the Open Society
Foundation [funded by George Soros - AK] published a study not long
ago analyzing Western Europe. In this, we could read a sentence which
says that Western Europe was so preoccupied with solving the
situation of immigrants that it forgot about white working class. Or
the British prime minister said that as a consequence of the changes
happening in Europe, many became freeloaders on the back of the
welfare systems. One of the richest Americans, who was one of the
first investors in the company Amazon stated that we are living in a
society that is less and less capitalist and more and more feudal,
and if the economic system does not reform itself then middle class
will disappear, and, as he puts it, “the rich will be attacked by
pitchforks”. Therefore, he [Orban is referring to the German-born
Amazon.com billionaire investor Nick Hanauer’s article published in
Politico here:
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/06/the-pitchforks-are-coming-for-us-plutocrats-108014.html#.VBJjGfldV8E
-AK] thinks a middle-up economic model is needed instead of a
top-down model. It is not my intention to interpret these sentences,
simply to cite them here in order to show the novelty of these ideas
that were impossible to talk about only six years ago.
Or,
similarly from America, the number of unemployed youth has
drastically risen [Mr. Orban clearly doesn’t buy the ‘cooked’
US unemployment numbers contrasted with the real 16-20% unemployment
figures compiled by John Williams published at ShadowStats.com - AK],
and in the case of the most promising career options, children from
families with affluent families receive a far greater advantage –
this is said in the homeland of social mobility [a reference by
Orban, perhaps, to the millions of Hungarians who emigrated to the
USA prior to and after WWII - AK]. Or to cite something else: another
respected analyst said that the internet, understood by the liberal
world as the greatest symbol of freedom for many long years, is being
colonized by big corporations. His statement suggests that the big
question is whether great capitalist companies, meaning international
corporations, would be successful in doing away with the neutrality
of the internet. Going forward, to quote a development that is both
dear and unexpected for us, the English prime minister, who awkwardly
avoids his party being identified as Christian Democratic, stands up
in before the public stating that Christianity is a core principle of
British values, and despite multiculturalism, Great Britain is a
Christian country in heart, and this is a fact to be proud of.
Besides
suggesting the USA is a power in cultural and economic decline, Orban
added blasphemy to heresy by suggesting Hungary could learn much from
the rising BRIC nations, plus the Hungarians old Ottoman overlords
the Turks who have modernized their economy under the authoritarian
and double-dealing (between Iran, Russia, and China on one side and
NATO and the Sunni Persian Gulf states on the other) Recep Tayyip
Erdogan:
Everyone
was only talking about competition in the world economy.
Globalization on the international scale made it necessary to do a
lot of talking, writing and analysis about it, and this phenomenon is
known in details. We can more or less know why a major economic
interest group, for example the European Union, is competitive, or
why it is losing its competitiveness. However, according to many, and
I belong to them, today this is not the principal question. It
remains an important question. As long as people live off money and
economy, this will remain an important question. Yet there is an even
more important race. I would articulate this as a race to invent a
state that is most capable of making a nation successful. As the
state is nothing else but a method of organizing a community, a
community that in our case sometimes coincides with our country’s
borders, sometimes not, but I will get back to that, the defining
aspect of today’s world can be articulated as a race to figure out
a way of organizing communities, a state that is most capable of
making a nation competitive. This is why, Honorable Ladies and
Gentlemen a trending topic in thinking is understanding systems that
are not Western, not liberal, not liberal democracies, maybe not even
democracies, and yet making nations successful. Today,
the stars of international analyses are Singapore, China, India,
Turkey, Russia.
And I believe that our political community rightly anticipated this
challenge, and if we think back on what we did in the last four
years, and what we are going to do in the following four years, than
it really can be interpreted from this angle. We are searching for
and we are doing our best to find – parting ways with Western
European dogmas, making ourselves independent from them – the form
of organizing a community, that is capable of making us competitive
in this great world-race.
By
great world race and dismissing mere economic competition as the only
deciding factor of the 21st century, Orban was hinting strongly that
the first duty of any Hungarian government is the preservation of the
Hungarian peoples,
wherever they may live.
Because some Jobbik members who may indeed be fascists speak this
way, as do the Ukrainian Nazis who imagine the Cossacks of Rostov or
Krasnodar oblasts don’t realize that they are Ukrainians, it’s
easy to label such ideas ‘fascist’. But Hungary, as many
observers of its demographics have pointed out, is a nation
experiencing or facing severe graying and population decline.
Clearly
when Orban says ‘competitive in this great world-race’ he means
preserving the Hungarians as a people rather than seeing them slowly
replaced by peoples from the Middle East [North Africa, the Levant
and Turkish Kurdistan all seem primed for population explosions and
lengthy unrest in the years to come- AK] or elsewhere during this
century. Just in case there was any confusion about what Orban meant,
his reference to the ‘white working class’ of Great Britain
should make it clear: the purpose of a sovereign nation is the health
and long-term well-being of the majority population of that nation,
not globalist ‘values’ or economic growth divorced from human
needs. While I am personally not a fan of Alexandr Dugin, one most
acknowledge this is much closer to Duginism and Eurasianism than
Orban’s old Atlanticist, pro-EU positions. Orban’s use of the
phrase ‘non-liberal state’ is in fact, almost pure Duginism,
perhaps taken straight from the pages of Dugin’s book The 4th
Political Theory by an Orban speechwriter. In the book, Dugin
contends that after three centuries liberalism dating to the acts of
tolerance that ended Europe’s bloody 30 Years Wars and restored the
British crown after Cromwell’s revolt, liberalism has exhausted
itself. [You can watch English subtitles of Dugin summarizing his
book in less than ten minutes, and describing how many European
languages it has been translated into here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QrnJKf-hhE]
Orban
Vows to Resist the Empire’s Colored Revolution and ‘NGO-istan’
Tactics
Consequently,
what is happening today in Hungary can interpreted as an attempt of
the respective political leadership to harmonize relationship between
the interests and achievement of individuals – that needs to be
acknowledged – with interests and achievements of the community,
and the nation. Meaning, that Hungarian nation is not a simple sum of
individuals, but a community that needs to be organized, strengthened
and developed, and in this sense, the new state that we are building
is an illiberal state, a non-liberal state. It does not deny
foundational values of liberalism, as freedom, etc.. But it does not
make this ideology a central element of state organization but
applies a specific, national, particular approach in its stead.
Is
Orban a Eurasianist?
Like
Dugin, like Igor Strelkov, and like Vladimir Putin, Orban calls out a
fifth column in his country. These are, of course, the same
Rockefeller and Fortune 500 funded foundations, think tanks, and NGOs
that cultivated Central European politicans like... former AEI
employee and husband to the Washington Post’s Anne Applebaum Radek
Sikorski.
[http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/22/poland-foreign-minister-alliance-us-worthless]
And former Czech Prime Minister Vaclav Klaus, who has called the EU
the 4th Reich (German Continental economic dominance under
Washington’s tutelage
Whereas
Sikorski was caught on tape bitterly telling a fellow Polish
politician when he thought no one was listening that Poland has
sexually serviced the US and received nothing in return; Orban has
turned on his former handlers and now calls them out for what they
are -- foreign agents of influence and globalist occupiers of his
country:
Now,
Hungarian NGO landscape shows a very particular image. Ideally a
civil politician as opposed to professional is an individual who is
organizing bottom-up, financially independent and the nature of his
work is voluntary. If we look at civil organizations in Hungary, the
one that appears before public, now debates around the Norwegian Fund
brought this on the surface, then what I will see is that we have to
deal with paid political activists here. And these political
activists are moreover political activists paid by foreigners.
Activists paid by definite political circles of interest. It is hard
to imagine that these circles have a social agenda. It is more likely
that they would like to exercise influence through this system of
instruments on Hungarian public life. It is vital, therefore, that if
we would like to reorganize our nation state instead of the liberal
state, that we should make it clear, that these are not civilians
coming against us, opposing us, but political activists attempting to
promote foreign interests. Therefore it is very apt that a committee
was being formed in the Hungarian parliament that deals with constant
monitoring, recording and publishing foreign attempts to gain
influence, so that all of us here, you as well will be aware of who
are the characters behind the masks.
Since
this piece has been exceptionally lengthy even by the Vineyard’s
standards, I will leave the Saker and his readers with Orban’s
conclusion for his compatriots who happen to live outside Hungary’s
present borders -- in what is a clear message to Kiev, Bucharest and
ultimately Washington that national identity won’t be crushed under
EUro-globalism:
Now
the only question that remains, honorable ladies and gentlemen, and
it is a question that I am not entitled to answer, that in times like
this, when anything could happen, should we be afraid, or should we
instead be hopeful? Because the present order of the world is not
exactly to our taste, that this future, although it is uncertain, it
could even cause huge trouble, it also holds opportunities and
developments for our Hungarian nation. So instead of seclusion, fear
and withdrawal I recommend courage, prospective thinking, rational,
but brave
action to the Hungarian communities in the Carpathian basin [the old
Rusyn lands - AK] but also throughout the world. As anything can
happen, it can easily happen that our time will come.
Thank you for your honorific attention.
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