Tomio Okamura is the leader of the SPD party in Czechia. He is multicultural in a unique Central European way: his father was Japanese and his mother was from Moravia.
In the following video Mr. Okamura lays out his party’s position on Ukraine and NATO’s proxy war on Russia. He opposes any financial and military aid for the regime in Kiev.
Many thanks to Xanthippa for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling:
Video transcript:
| 00:00 | Czech citizens think that the support of Ukraine by the Fiala government | |
| 00:05 | is too costly. On behalf of SPD [the opposition party I lead] I state clearly: we want peace, | |
| 00:10 | not war. The Centre for Research of Public Opinion (CVVM) | |
| 00:15 | has published the results of research from which flows | |
| 00:18 | that more than half of Czech citizens do not agree | |
| 00:21 | with the level of the governmental support of Ukraine | |
| 00:24 | and think that [this level of] support is too high and broad. | |
| 00:29 | On the question of providing military equipment to Ukraine | |
| 00:33 | the Czech Republic is split exactly down the middle. | |
| 00:37 | And a mere 12% of Czech citizens might, | |
| 00:41 | perhaps, support the deployment of Czech troops to Ukraine | |
| 00:46 | and their direct involvement in combat. The SPD movement | |
| 00:50 | has long supported rendering humanitarian aid | |
| 00:53 | and helping true war refugees | |
| 00:58 | and persons affected by the armed conflict in Ukraine. | |
| 01:01 | At the same time, we clearly state that any financial aid | |
| 01:06 | from the budget of the Czech State to foreign states or foreign state members [actors] | |
| 01:11 | must not occur at the expense of Czech citizens | |
| 01:15 | specifically the most vulnerable [Czech] groups, | |
| 01:19 | as is happening now. The government of Petr Fiala | |
| 01:22 | with [the help of coalition party] OSD is raising taxes | |
| 01:25 | and fees (?) on Czech citizens and companies while | |
| 01:28 | simultaneously reducing the [?legal rates?] of pension payments, | |
| 01:31 | but does nothing to limit the financial aid going abroad. | |
| 01:34 | At the same time, we reject any and all military aid to Ukraine, | |
| 01:40 | for example by supplying arms, or by training their troops in our military facilities. | |
| 01:45 | Here, I would like to stress that the elected members of SPD | |
| 01:48 | were the only ones in the Chamber of Representatives | |
| 01:51 | who voted against the training of Ukrainian troops | |
| 01:55 | on the territory of The Czech Republic and against supplying arms to Ukraine. | |
| 01:59 | The priority of SPD is to strive for a peaceful solution to the military conflict in Ukraine | |
| 02:05 | and no support for this conflict. |