Washington’s ambassador says Budapest is ‘really alone’ and describes its foreign policy as a ‘fantasy’
The US is disappointed Hungary’s ratification of Sweden joining Nato is taking so long, Washington’s ambassador has said, saying that Budapest is “really alone” and that the Hungarian government is pursuing a “foreign fantasy” instead of foreign policy.
After months of delays, Turkey’s parliament approved Sweden’s Nato membership this week. The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, signed it off on Thursday, leaving Hungary as the only country in the 31-member western military alliance that has yet to ratify the Swedish bid.
While the Hungarian government formally supports Sweden’s accession, the country’s parliament has avoided voting on the matter, fuelling frustration among Nato allies and raising questions about the motivations of Hungary’s prime minister, Viktor Orbán.
The Hungarian leader routinely criticises his western allies and has been nurturing relationships with Moscow and Beijing.
All of our international organizations are useless because of too much veto power and no mechanism to throw countries out. I would love a coalition of reasonable countries that you can only be part of it you have a functioning democracy and respect the rule of law
I think that proposal as reasonable as it sounds is how world war 2 started.
Careful what you wish for in that first requirement…
He wants “democracy” not democracy
Hungary’s politicians are really doing their best to be the most evil, annoying, unfriendly, arrogant assholes they can. They can’t even explain WHY, they just want to be dickheads.
Great “alliance partner”…
Those clowns even promised to not be the last country to ratify Sweden’s application.
