Hungarian Prime Minister Orban delivered a very cutting remark to Russia! Orban stated that Russia is too weak and it cannot even defeat Ukraine, posing no real threat to NATO countries! On June 9th, according to foreign media reports, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said that he does not consider Russia to pose a real military threat to NATO countries, as the fact proves that Russia cannot achieve its goals in Ukraine, although Ukraine is losing this war.
Orban believes that neither Europe nor Ukraine can reach an agreement with Russia. Ukraine because it is losing this war, and Europe because it has been too deeply involved. Russia and the United States need to reach an agreement. What do we think of Orban's remarks? To be honest, it's quite cutting for Russia when such words come out of Orban's mouth.
However, objectively speaking, concluding that Russia is too weak simply because it cannot defeat Ukraine is too hasty. The reason why Russia has not completely defeated Ukraine by now is fundamentally due to the support from the United States and Europe behind Ukraine. If the US and Europe did not sanction Russia and did not provide support to Ukraine, the situation of the war would not be like this.
Saying that Russia poses no real military threat to NATO countries also undervalues Russia's strength. In fact, in terms of conventional weapons, Russia does not have an advantage over NATO, but what if Russia's nuclear power is considered? Perhaps Russia poses a great deterrent to NATO. In fact, it is precisely because of Russia's powerful nuclear capability that NATO is extremely wary and dare not get personally involved. Perhaps the end of the Russia-Ukraine conflict must be personally negotiated by the US and Russia. But Orban undoubtedly underestimates Russia too much.
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