Hungarian head of state Viktor Orbán was on his own peace mission to Ukraine in early July 2024.
Orbán first met with the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kiev, then with the President of the Russian Federation
Vladimir Putin in Moscow and then with the Head of State of the People's Republic of China Xi Jinping in Beijing.
Viktor Orbán, who currently also holds the office of President of the EU Council, was heavily criticized by Western heads
of state and the leading Western media for this initiative:
Orbán's peace mission would treacherously upset the united guideline of the EU states, according to the EU
heads of state in conjunction with the leading media.
The Swiss news portal Die Weltwoche shed a completely different light on Orbán's peace initiative with its
exclusive interviews with Viktor Orbán surrounding the state visits and its broadcast on July 8, 2024.
For editor-in-chief Roger Köppel, Viktor Orbán is a hero.
And not without reason. Orbán's aim is to achieve a ceasefire in order to use the time for
clarifying negotiations between the warring parties.
According to Orbán, thousands of Ukrainian soldiers are dying on the front line every week. From a human, even
Christian point of view, this must be stopped immediately.
Orbán used the talks with the Ukrainian and Russian heads of state to listen to their points of
view, motivations and goals in an unbiased manner.
According to Roger Köppel in Weltwoche, this is exactly what exemplary peace diplomacy is all
about: approaching and listening to each other.
According to freelance journalist Alexander Raue, diplomatic talks are also urgently needed, as the Ukraine
conflict is on the verge of an excessive escalation.
North Korea has promised Russia unconditional support and wants to send soldiers to
Ukraine as early as July 2024, i.e. this month.
China wants to send soldiers to Belarus at the same time.
Together with the Russian army, three of the world's strongest armies would be on the scene.
Orbán's peace mission is therefore not a betrayal of the EU member states, but rather aims to prevent them from
running into a knife with their war-supporting policy.
According to Weltwoche on July 11, Orbán asked Turkish head of state Erdogan to act as a
mediator in order to achieve the much-needed ceasefire.
The most important asset is at stake: human life.
What a completely different view of things that the leading Western media are deliberately withholding from EU citizens.
For Roger Köppel, Orbán's punishment from Brussels also presents an opportunity.
The defamation of Orbán's peace mission as a betrayal clearly demonstrates the EU leadership's disenchantment with peace.
This offers EU citizens the chance to reflect on whether the EU leaders are really the
representatives of the people that they want for their country.
So much for Weltwoche's dissenting voice to the leading media.
Alexandros Boufesis from the internet portal warnews247.gr is keen to emphasize that Orbán may not be
acting entirely altruistically in his peace mission.
Orbán is concerned with the fate of the Hungarian minority in Ukraine and part of the Ukrainian
territory that historically belonged to Hungary.
So much for Alexandros Boufesis.
What is actually and ultimately going on behind the scenes on the world stage, what script the current political moves are
following and what role the individual politicians are playing here cannot be conclusively answered with this program.
We merely recall that in the world wars and the build-up to the West-East conflict, global high finance
always financed both sides and thus pulled the strings.
Financial expert Ernst Wolff also repeatedly emphasizes that wars do not happen by chance,
but are prepared over a long period of time.
See also our program: Preparations for a new world war underway
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