The following video is an excerpt from a press conference given last Thursday by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. In it Mr. Orbán is asked a question about his government’s policies on Iran.
Many thanks to CrossWare for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:
Video transcript (times based on the original longer video):
| Question: How compatible is it that Hungary has strong USA-Israel relationship and military alliance, while at the same time it also has strong energy-related ties with Iran and Russia? | ||
| 38:00 | As for energy policy, until now I have been successfully | |
| 38:04 | able to keep it separate from defense policies. | |
| 38:08 | So Hungary has an energy strategy, and totally separate | |
| 38:12 | military and defense alliance policies. And these two sets of policies | |
| 38:16 | we would like to continue to keep separate. As for | |
| 38:20 | the details that arise from your question, | |
| 38:24 | it would be too early to answer, but I can tell you: | |
| 38:28 | I would like it if the European standpoint were to be — | |
| 38:32 | which is not clear, by the way, in this Iranian situation — | |
| 38:36 | were to be oriented in the direction of the United States’ point of view. | |
| 38:40 | So on Friday we would like to achieve that the Europeans’ point of view and the Anglo-Saxon, | |
| 38:44 | and I may say, the distance between the USA-Israeli standpoint and | |
| 38:48 | the European viewpoint would decrease. This is the direction we should go. |
Sounds like a conflict of interest between Hungary’s energy and defense policies. But Hungary is a small country with a small economy. He’s buying Iranian oil because he has to. If some other oil producer could cut a better deal for Hungary, then that would be better, buy you do what you have to do in the meantime.
Of course. LADIES! Stop the war!
Europeans point of view? Anglo-Saxon? There would be screeching from safe spaces and coloring books with fresh crayons and play-doh dispensed if that was uttered anywhere in America.
He does know about the E.U. right?
Trump may have triggered something in Iran https://thegreatarchitect.blog/2020/01/13/the-iranian-crisis-a-blessing-in-disguise/