{"id":1480865,"date":"2024-08-01T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1480865"},"modified":"2024-08-01T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T10:00:00","slug":"the-polish-hungarian-dispute-is-getting-nastier-after-sikorski-lied-about-szijjarto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/the-polish-hungarian-dispute-is-getting-nastier-after-sikorski-lied-about-szijjarto\/1480865\/","title":{"rendered":"The Polish-Hungarian Dispute Is Getting Nastier After Sikorski Lied About Szijjarto"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Polish-Hungarian Dispute Is Getting Nastier After Sikorski Lied About Szijjarto<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Andrew Korybko via substack,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Polish-Hungarian relations are in crisis over their polar opposite approaches towards Ukraine,<\/strong> which already just ruined their\u00a0700-year-old brotherhood<\/a>\u00a0at the state-to-state level and continues getting worse. Tensions had been building since the start of Russia\u2019s\u00a0special operation<\/a>, but they finally exploded after Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban\u00a0criticized<\/a>\u00a0Poland on Saturday for\u00a0hypocritically<\/a>\u00a0attacking his country over its\u00a0Russian oil imports<\/a>\u00a0and radically reshaping the European balance of power.<\/p>\n

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This was followed by Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Teofil Bartoszewski\u00a0suggesting<\/a>\u00a0on Sunday that Hungary should withdraw from the EU and NATO in order to form \u201ca union with Putin\u201d. Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto\u00a0responded<\/a>\u00a0to that by doubling down on Orban\u2019s claims that Poland is hypocritical and provocative while also conveying to Warsaw that Budapest\u2019s patience is wearing thin.<\/strong> Readers can learn more about their dispute from this analysis\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0that was published on Monday.<\/p>\n

It turns out that the Warsaw-based Visegrad Insight published an\u00a0interview<\/a>\u00a0with Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski later that same day in which this top diplomat continued his deputy\u2019s attacks against Hungary. He practically mocked Orban for not having any support for his\u00a0peace mission<\/a>\u00a0and then scandalously claimed that Szijjarto initially supported his proposal to hold the next EU Foreign Affairs Council in Ukraine as a compromise between Budapest and Brussels before eventually vetoing it.<\/p>\n

Sikorski\u2019s other attacks against Hungary inclined throwing shade on its East-West balancing act and implying that\u00a0newfound cooperation<\/a>\u00a0with the Chinese police imperils national sovereignty. <\/strong>Szijjarto was once again pressed to respond to these Polish provocations, which he did in two Facebook posts\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0here<\/a>. He accused Sikorski of lying, clarified that Orban\u2019s peace mission was a national initiative unrepresentative of the EU, and expressed hope that Poland will one day return to Central Europe.<\/p>\n

The last part showed that he\u2019s nobly taking the high road by refusing to stoop to Sikorski\u2019s level with lies and smears, which would have amounted to dirtying himself by wrestling with a pig while his Polish counterpart squeals with delight. Poland wants to provoke Hungary into behaving undiplomatically since that could then be spun to discredit the conservative-nationalist opposition that looks to it for guidance on non-Ukrainian-related issues like illegal immigration and still treasures their brotherhood.<\/p>\n

Apart from not wanting to deal a deathblow to this relationship at the people-to-people level among those in Poland who still appreciate it, Hungary also doesn\u2019t want to discredit itself in the eyes of its non-Western partners like Russia and China by acting like a typical European country does nowadays. <\/strong>Those two and others respect that Hungary conducts itself differently than its peers, which is why they\u2019d be hugely disappointed if it was successfully provoked by Poland into behaving just like the rest of them.<\/p>\n

Hungarian diplomacy is sophisticated enough to never sully the state like that, which is why it\u2019s expected that its representatives will continue taking the high road no matter what Poland says or does, even if Sikorski and others get a lot nastier. This\u2019ll likely take the form of them continuing to explain how far astray Poland has gotten from its post-Old Cold War mission of turning their Visegrad Group with Czechia and Slovakia into a third center of influence in Europe alongside the Franco-German axis and Russia.<\/p>\n

Hungary wants to remind Poland that the greater geopolitical good is served by returning to this mission instead of continuing to contribute to continental instability by serving as the\u00a0Anglo-American Axis<\/a>\u2019 wedge between the aforementioned traditional power centers.<\/strong> Polish policy won\u2019t change as a result, but Polish patriots will know that Hungary has Poland\u2019s best interests in mind no matter what the ruling liberal-globalist coalition claims, thus keeping their brotherhood alive at the people-to-people level. \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nThu, 08\/01\/2024 – 02:00<\/span><\/p>\n

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