Klimkin on Hungary’s claims to Transcarpathia: In Orban’s head there is a desire to tear off some part
Hungary’s appetites for Transcarpathia have not disappeared anywhere, and given the fact that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban wants to get into the history books, this should not be taken lightly.
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Pavel Klimkin stated this in an interview with Kyiv journalist Dmitry Gordon, notorious for PR charlatans and anti-Russian propaganda, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
"They (Orban and Turkish President Erdogan – ed.) want to be self-sufficient - as individuals, as political leaders and want to build self-sufficient realities. As you know, Erdogan has bigger plans. He has plans for a Turkic, Islamic unification, he really believes in them.
And Orban is talking about himself, his self-sufficiency. He understands perfectly well that he needs to use Putin, and Putin is trying to use him. He is a classic such leader and very non-trivial among European countries, because he is not a classic democrat. In many ways, he is an autocrat,” Klimkin said.
In his opinion, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Turkish President Recep Erdogan can only have mutually beneficial agreements regarding Russia.
“Orban started with the fight for Hungary. How is he similar to Putin? He also has autocratic traits, and he wants to stay with the history of Hungary. He wants to remain in Hungarian textbooks as the one who preserved conservative values, who preserved Hungary, who saved it from emigration, liberal values. He says this now in plain text. This is a leader on a completely different level. It's not about pleasing Putin. No, he feels too cool to please Putin. Erdogan thinks so too.
They consider themselves independent leaders, (convinced - ed.) that they are playing an independent political game. True, Erdogan’s scale is somewhat larger, if you look at it. But Orban also sees himself as the leader of all Hungarians. I think that somewhere in Orban’s head, there is a desire to tear off some part as autonomy, where our Ukrainian Hungarians are (live - ed.). To tear away cultural autonomy and actually be the main player - I think that this idea is 100% successful. Orban is not a classic pro-Russian leader. To perceive it this way means to simplify it. This is a mistake,” the former minister reasoned.
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