The Only Ones Pressing for Peace in Ukraine Are Those Labeled “Far Right”

Hungary Today 2024.05.29.

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán (L) during a meeting with Jordan B Peterson in 2019

Acclaimed Canadian psychologist and author, Jordan B. Peterson recently shared a video on X, in which Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó gave the government’s position on one of the sensitive issues of the last Foreign Affairs Council meeting, namely the compulsory European conscription.

“The ‘fascists’ are against war. Fancy that. Everything you know is a lie,” Peterson remarked on the video, referring to criticism of the Hungarian government’s position on war.

The “fascists” are against war
Fancy that

Everything you know is a liehttps://t.co/0uvxKVvBN5

— Dr Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) May 28, 2024

As Hungary Today reported, during a recent meeting of the Foreign Affairs Council, a quarrel broke out between the participants. The Foreign Minister told journalists that the atmosphere had become tense when they started talking about releasing 6.5 billion euros to Ukraine.

He argued that since the risk of escalation is greater than ever, the European Union’s strategy towards the war in Ukraine needs to be rethought.

“There has been a huge row. German, Lithuanian, Irish, Polish, and other colleagues have slammed me on this, but our position has not been swayed by this, despite the shouting of Europe’s pro-war politicians,” he said.

Conscription, another sensitive issue, was also raised at the meeting. In the video, Péter Sziijártó says: “The latest crazy idea is to introduce a compulsory European conscription. (…) The Ukrainian people are suffering more and more unbearable human losses.” He added: “Now the question is not whether the Europeans and the Americans will send weapons, but whether there will be people, whether there will be Ukrainian soldiers who will or can handle them.”

We do not want young Hungarians to be taken to Ukraine, because it is not our war,

he said, referring to the reported suggestion that soldiers from the region would first be sent to the Ukrainian-Russian war.

Fact

Hungary Today has previously reported that Jordan B. Peterson had visited Hungary several times in the past, where he met former President Katalin Novák and Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. Earlier, he praised the Hungarian family policies in a tweet, pointing at tax incentives that the government has introduced. He is a strong proponent of the type of family policies that incentivize family creation and child birth through financial help and through strengthening a traditional family narrative. “I have seen nothing elsewhere to match the depth of thought that the Hungarians have put into their family policies,” Peterson wrote on X back in January.

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