Recently, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban made a surprise visit to Russia and met with Russian President Vladimir Putin. As a member of NATO, Orban is one of the few leaders to visit Russia in more than two years amid Russia's hostilities with NATO, the last of which was Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and he did not go to Moscow, but met with Putin in Sochi, Russia.
It can be seen from this that Orban's visit to Russia in this situation is undoubtedly a very rare signal. More interestingly, on the day of his visit to Russia, Orban also published a signed article in the American media, in which he warned Western countries that if the NATO bloc decided to choose war over peace, it would be "suicide".
There is no doubt that this is an unusually strong warning, and Orban's latest statement also proves that there are people in Europe who know that the NATO bloc continues to play with fire, which will only lead to a head-on conflict between NATO and Russia, and thus the outbreak of World War III. It is worth noting that the reason why Orban made such "appalling" remarks at a sensitive juncture has a lot to do with the current situation in Europe.
Since the second half of last year, Russia has gradually gained the upper hand on the battlefield, and this trend has become more and more obvious since this year. Anyone with a discerning eye can already see that Ukraine alone may be difficult to confront Russia, and if it wants to drag this war on for longer, the NATO bloc must step up. As a result, some NATO member countries began to consider the possibility of "sending troops" to Ukraine, and the most common thing to say was French President Emmanuel Macron.
Based on this, Orban stressed that NATO has entered a "watershed moment", and now there are only two choices in the NATO bloc, that is, to choose war or peace, if NATO decides to choose war, then it will bring about its own destruction, which is the premise of Orban's latest statement. In addition, Orban also played a cautious trick, because this signed article was reported on the website of the American media, so the article was actually for the United States to see.
We all know that the United States is the boss of the NATO bloc, and NATO's strategic plan to continuously expand and compress Russia's living space is also led by the United States, so only the United States can really decide "war and peace." However, don't look at what Orban said so much, but the impact on the NATO bloc is minimal, and Hungary's influence within NATO is limited and cannot influence the general trend at all.
What are megatrends? It is that most NATO countries do not want Russia to be strong, so they will desperately suppress Russia's living space, until Russia is cornered, and Putin orders a counterattack. Now that the war has reached this level, even if Putin is willing to negotiate peace, it is impossible to spit out the four states that were previously referendum into Russia, and Russia is unwilling to spit it out, not only Ukraine does not agree, but also European countries do not agree, so they can only fight.
It can be expected that if Ukraine continues to lose the war in the future, in order to help Ukraine withstand the Russian army, some NATO member states that feel threatened may really "send troops" to Ukraine. It doesn't even take much troops, even if there are only a few dozen NATO soldiers in the first batch, the symbolism is different, which is enough to show that the NATO bloc is officially playing against Russia, and it is difficult to say what will happen next.