“What the Europeans are doing is bad, it’s not targeting on cease-fire and we don’t confront seriously with all the consequences of supporting a country who is in a war which cannot be [won],” he said.
Ukraine is now merely a “protectorare” of the West, he added, as without money and weapons from the EU and the U.S., Ukraine “as a state will cease to exist,” Orbán said.
Echoing one of Putin’s favorite justifications for his full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Orbán said the conflict is about Kyiv’s potential NATO membership and that the Russian leader will never give in on this.
“They will always do everything they can to have something between the Russian border and NATO countries’ border,” he said. “A buffer zone must exist.”
The conference, which includes leading conservatives such as the U.K.’s Nigel Farage and former Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, kicked off Tuesday at the Claridge, a venue close to the European Quarter. But the gathering turned chaotic when local police showed up, at the behest of the local mayor, to shut down the jamboree.
Organizers were able to continue the conference on Tuesday, although police stood by the door and prevented new arrivals from entering.
A Belgian court eventually struck down the local mayor’s order and allowed the conference to move ahead on Wednesday with no interference.
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