Exactly. "Would an Ukraine controlled by Putin be a LESSER threat? Someone should ask him." Publicly, Orban is Putin's buddy. As Trump. Privately, only Orban knows what he really thinks.
The Hungarian government’s rhetoric on Russia’s large-scale invasion of Ukraine and its articulation of a Hungarian security identity
Markus Balázs Göransson Received 30 Mar 2024, Accepted 14 Feb 2025, Published online: 13 Mar 2025
The article examines the Hungarian government’s rhetoric on Russia’s large-scale invasion of Ukraine during the early months of the invasion, drawing on the literature on state security identity. It finds that the Hungarian government portrayed the war as an impersonal force, a kind of maelstrom on its doorstep into which Hungary might “drift” if heedless policy proposals by Western states and the Hungarian political opposition were put into practice. According to this rhetoric, it was the Hungarian government’s judicious and patriotic leadership that enabled the country to steer clear of drifting into the war. In contrast with the pro-Western rhetoric of Hungarian governments of the 1990s and 2000s, Hungary was now explicitly identified as a “Central European” state with its own security interests, but one that was threatened by the self-interested and reckless actions of Western states and the Hungarian political opposition.
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The government’s rhetoric involved several interesting contrasts. For example, on the one hand, the government projected an image of robust military readiness in the face of the violence in Ukraine. On the other hand, it stressed Hungarian vulnerability to the actions of Western governments and the Hungarian political opposition. Similarly, it presented the war as an impersonal phenomenon in which the agency of the Russian government was all but absent but readily emphasised the agency of the Hungarian political opposition and Western states in making statements and taking actions that it said could hurt Hungarian interests. In the government’s rhetoric, Hungary was caught between an agentless war to the east and self-interested states to the west that promoted policies harmful to Hungarian interests with abettance from an irresponsible and unpatriotic Hungarian political opposition. In this context, only the Hungarian government’s judicious and patriotic leadership enabled it to defend the country’s national interests and prevent it from “drifting into” the war.
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