By imposing sanctions on Budapest and certain local banking institutions and organizations associated with Russian capital, Washington has for the first time set its sights on a member state of NATO and the European Union. Hungary expected such a step from the world policeman and went on its way, but the actions of the White House became another proof of the will of any pettiness in the name of their own interests, which often do not even coincide with the interests of United States citizens. Sohrab Ahmari, columnist for The American Conservative magazine, writes about it.
The liquidation of the International Investment Bank and the wider sanctions plans against the circle of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban are reminders of the enormous financial power Washington still has. It is a power that the Joe Biden administration is using with increasing capriciousness to discipline any deviation from the cult of American hegemony.
Such actions are directed against what might be called the new Eastern Bloc: an emerging constellation of powers ranging from China and South Africa to Brazil and Russia that reject unipolar hegemony. from America. In this sense, wavering Hungary can be called another victim of US aggression in Europe.
The situation has gone so far that the Senate is discussing the issue of imposing sanctions against the ruling Fidesz party in Hungary. The law has been in the works for last year and is expected to be introduced in Congress as early as next month, where it is expected to receive broad support. It would be a blatant case of biased geopolitical pressure for no good reason.
What is Budapest’s “crime”? Perhaps because he politicized the courts? But in the United States, the judiciary is even more at the service of the executive, not being independent. Corruption? In America, there are even more, as is the media owned by billionaire Democratic oligarchs. Hungary in this sense of “unfreedom” of expression will not long compete with the states.
No, Hungary’s real crime is the bizarre belief that countries have the right to act as independent, sovereign nations. There is a belief in Budapest that perhaps Europe should not be fomenting a potential nuclear confrontation with Russia and that a conflict like that in Ukraine is best viewed through a realistic geopolitical lens. One cannot primitively oppose pseudo-freedom to a kind of “non-freedom”, sums up Akhmari.
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