Published February 21, 2024
NATO has grown from 15 members to 31, & now they’re trying to admit Sweden as No. 32. Hungary sees this as provoking Russia but Washington says this won’t be tolerated & threatens sanctions.
Mainstream news is reporting that a bipartisan delegation of U.S. senators made an official visit to Hungary’s capital Sunday to put pressure on the nationalist government of Viktor Orban to immediately approve Sweden’s request to join NATO.
But guess what? The war agenda of these globalist senators is so unpopular in Hungary that no member of the Hungarian Parliament would agree to even meet with them.
Hungary is the only member of NATO’s 31 existing members not to have approved Sweden’s application. The Hungarian government faces increasing pressure to submit to the orders of Washington, London and Berlin after delaying acting on Sweden’s bid for more than 18 months.
Admitting a new country into the military alliance requires unanimous approval.
The visiting senators announced they would submit a joint resolution to Congress “condemning alleged democratic backsliding in Hungary and urging the government of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán to lift its block on Sweden’s trans-Atlantic integration,” according to a report by ABC News.
Senator Thom Tillis, a North Carolina RINO Republican and notorious neocon globalist warmonger, said during a news conference at the U.S. Embassy in Budapest:
“With accession, Hungary and your prime minister will be doing a great service to freedom-loving nations worldwide.”
Freedom loving? NATO is supporting a dictator in Ukraine who has banned all opposition parties, shut down unfriendly media, and is kidnapping middle-aged men off the streets to fight the Russians. This is what “freedom” looks like to Thom Tillis and his globalist comrades in the U.S. Senate.
The proposed joint resolution condemning Hungary, first reported by The Associated Press, was authored by Tillis and Senator Jeanne Shaheen, a New Hampshire Democrat. Joining them in the delegation to Budapest was Senator Chris Murphy, a Democrat from Connecticut.
Shaheen said it was “disappointing” that no members of the Hungarian government had accepted invitations to meet the delegation but she was “hopeful and optimistic” Sweden’s accession would be submitted for ratification when Hungarian lawmakers reconvene on February 26.
Murphy said the refusal of Orbán’s government to meet was “strange and concerning,” but that the onus was on the long-serving leader to push for a vote.
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SOURCE: www.thegatewaypundit.com
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Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban delivers his annual “State of Hungary” speech in Budapest, Hungary, Saturday, Feb. 17, 2024. The message on lectern reads: “For us Hungary is the first!” (Szilard Koszticsak/MTI via AP)
Published February 20, 2024
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — A vote in Hungary’s parliament on ratifying Sweden’s bid to join NATO could come as early as Monday, according to a senior member of the country’s governing Fidesz party. It would bring an end to more than 18 months of delays by the nationalist government that have frustrated Hungary’s allies.
In a letter on Tuesday to the speaker of the parliament, the head of the Fidesz caucus, Máté Kocsis, requested that a vote be scheduled for the opening day of the spring session, which begins on Monday.
Kocsis wrote that Fidesz, which has repeatedly blocked a vote on the matter, will opt to support Sweden’s bid to join the trans-Atlantic military alliance.
Hungary is the only one of NATO’s 31 existing members not to have ratified Sweden’s bid. The Hungarian government faces mounting pressure to act after delaying the move for more than 1 1/2-year since admitting a new country to the military alliance requires unanimous approval.
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SOURCE: www.apnews.com
RELATED: Hungary reportedly refuses meeting with US senators over Sweden’s NATO bid
Senators delegation to submit resolution to Congress to urge Budapest for ratification
Jeanne Shaheen, Democrat senator for New Hampshire and co-Chair of the Senate NATO Observer Group
Published February 19, 2024
The Hungarian government refused a meeting with US senators in Budapest about Sweden’s accession to NATO, according to media reports.
Jeanne Shaheen, Democrat senator for New Hampshire and co-Chair of the Senate NATO Observer Group, expressed her disappointment in a news conference on Sunday over the move, the Budapest Times reported.
She recalled that Hungary was the last NATO member to not ratify Sweden’s membership.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban previously said that the parliament would ratify the bid in the spring session.
The US delegation said they will submit a resolution to Congress to urge Hungary to ratify.
