Viktor Orban, the prime minister of Hungary, said on Saturday that Pakistan will emerge as one of the world’s major powers, shifting influence away from the “irrational” West and toward Russia and Asia.
Orban stated, “Asia will be the dominant center of the world in the next long decades, maybe centuries,” naming China, India, and Indonesia as the next great powers.
“And we Westerners pushed the Russians into this bloc as well,” he remarked in front of ethnic Hungarians during a festival in the nearby Romanian town of Baile Tusnad. The remarks was shown on television.
Additionally, he declared that Ukraine would never be able to realize its dreams of joining the European Union or that Russia’s leadership was “hyper rational”Orban, whose nation presently holds the rotating EU chair, has distinguished himself from other members of the organization by pursuing closer connections with Beijing and Moscow. This month, he made unexpected trips to Kyiv, Moscow, and Beijing to hold talks on the conflict in Ukraine, which infuriated several EU leaders.
He said that Russia’s stance in international affairs was logical and predictable in contrast to the “weakness” of the West, noting that since its invasion of Crimea in 2014, the nation has demonstrated economic adaptability in response to sanctions.
He continued by saying that “we Europeans do not have enough money for that” and that Ukraine will never join the EU or NATO.
