Sand: Viktor, or winner

On 8 November Budapest hosted the most crucial European politicians. The subject of the gathering was the issue of Ukraine, the situation in Georgia and the mediate East and the challenges facing the Union in the coming years.

However, European leaders gathered in the capital of Hungary were afraid with a different subject – a amazing election for many of them by Donald Trump for 47 president of the United States of North America. And the consequences of this fact for Europe and the world. There was no better location for this gathering than Budapest. After all, this is the host of the summit – Viktor Orban has been consistently betting on Donald Trump for years, becoming his closest associate in Europe. In spite of European elites and even against them, he maintained a conservative course, making Hungary a standing of normality clearly distinguishing itself from the old continent of madness. Today, the merit of a saint deserves a triumph.

To realize the uniqueness of Viktor Orban's political path, we must go back to the beginning. In the late 1980s, the young, under-30-year-old Orban seemed to be a typical post-missive-zone political product developed to introduce a western social and political agenda. Soros scholarship holder and founder of the Union of Young Democrats became celebrated for his anti-communist and anti-Soviet radicalism. Legendary became 1 of Orban's first speeches to execute at the ceremony of Hungarian Prime Minister Imre Nagya as a 26-year-old. planet media then created him as an uncompromising idealist who called on russian troops to leave Hungary. This opened the door for young Orban to a large political career.

Orban's patron and mentor at the time was no another than George Soros. He was the 1 who pumped into the Fidesz organization founded by Orban, large for the then reality of money, $500,000. Through this funding, Orban could successfully gather his sympathizers and build political facilities. Besides, the Union of Young Democrats created by him was then a liberal and pro-European organization. Orban's political career grew rapidly. Already in 1990, he became an MP and in 1998 he became Prime Minister.

The good streak was interrupted in 2002. Orban lost the election and had to quit power. He spent a long 8 years in opposition. It was a busy time. The 2002 Fidesz was a liberal centreright typical of this part of the world. We could even hazard a highly pejorative word "compradorian" centre-right. In 2010, erstwhile Orban became Prime Minister for the second time, it was already a completely changed party. Overwhelming success reached for a completely different program – sovereign and conservative. It's against the agenda of globalists like Soros. That was erstwhile the final break-up with the erstwhile patron took place. Soros became shortly an unconvinced enemy of Orban. You too.

The gigantic support enabled Fidesz to push through the reforms that had been announced, which had completely changed the economical and political order to date. Central power has been strengthened, which has sparked serious controversy abroad, peculiarly in the European Union. However, the reforms did not undermine the essential features of the parliamentary strategy established in 1989. The economy has consolidated public finances and lowered the highest government debt in the region. The government has besides made a number of ad hoc efforts to improve the economical situation of Hungarian families.

Initially, there was no fundamental change in abroad policy, besides in the European direction. Orban fighting for Hungary's interests tried to keep European policy mainstream. His organization – Fidesz until 2021 was part of the centre of the European People's organization in the European Parliament. However, each year Orban's relation with the Eurocrats became worse. A fresh golden kid turned into enfant terrible. Paradoxically, however, it was not Orban who changed his views – it was the European Union and its globalist elite that changed from year to year. From the European leader Orban he was so successively moved to the position of Eurosceptics. As an opponent of the further federalisation of Europe, a conservative who shuns moral novelties, and a politician who opposes suicide EU agendas (migration, environmentalism) has become the on-call black character for Brussels.

That's why he needed allies. He found them inside the Union. The most crucial of them in the years 2015-2022 was, of course, Poland, which, however, wasted the common achievements in the name of the promethetic Ukrainian frost. But more crucial was his partner from overseas. The Trump-led Americas and Orban Hungary made a good team. In this interaction, the Magisters, although possessing disproportionately lower potential, were able to place their interests firmly and accomplish tangible benefits. rather different from what Polish politicians did at the time.

After Trump's 2020 election defeat, cooperation on the Washington-Budapest line was shaken, but in no way affected Trump and Orban's relationship. Even at the most hard times for the ex-president erstwhile even close colleagues seemed to have left him, American politician could number on his friend from Hungary. Therefore, present it is no secret to anyone that Orban will be the main partner in Europe for the fresh presidential administration.

But that is not all. After 2022, Orban was the only European leader who was not carried distant by the war hukivians. At a time erstwhile Europe was imposing further sanctions on Russia with disastrous effects, it maintained an excellent relation with president Putin's administration. Just like Beijing and Istanbul.

Orban's success is good news for Poland. First of all, due to the fact that the geopolitical interests of Hungary are at least inconsistent today, and in many points coincide with the Polish national interest. Like Hungarians, we request peace and peace abroad today. Just as they do, we want to prevent the suicide of Europe from falling into always darker depths of madness. Poland needs strong Hungary. Poland needs a strong Orban.

Przemysław Piasta

Photo by Viktor Orban

Think Poland, No. 47-48 (17-24.11.2024)