In a stark and unapologetic address at the “Peace March,” Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán articulated what many in the West whisper but rarely state aloud: Ukraine has lost its sovereignty. No longer an autonomous nation, its fate now rests in the hands of foreign powers.
The End of Illusion
Orbán declared that Ukraine’s sovereignty is a relic of the past. Its government, military, and economic survival are now dictated by external actors—primarily the United States and European institutions. In his view, Ukraine has become a geopolitical chessboard, where its people’s future is negotiated in distant capitals.
Ukraine’s fate being decided by external powers
Hungary’s Defiant Stand
Rejecting EU pressure to contribute funds, weapons, or troops, Orbán stated plainly: “We will not give our money, our weapons, or our soldiers for Ukraine.” For Hungary, this conflict is not its war, and Orbán refuses to let Brussels drag his nation into a military quagmire that serves others’ interests.
Tens of thousands of people flooded the streets of Budapest on Thursday(Oct. 23.) for the annual Peace March, voicing strong opposition to the European Union’s military policies and growing involvement in the Ukraine conflict.
The Real EU Agenda: Partition Under the Guise of Solidarity
While the European Union publicly champions Ukraine’s cause, Orbán revealed a darker reality: behind closed doors, the discussion is not about saving Ukraine, but about carving it up. Billions in aid are not acts of charity—they are strategic investments in influence and control. The conflict, far from a tragedy, is seen by some as an opportunity for territorial and political reordering.
Is the country vanishing?
A Warning to Europe
Orbán’s speech serves as a sobering critique of EU hypocrisy. As Western leaders preach unity and resolve, their actions suggest a willingness to sacrifice Ukrainian sovereignty for broader strategic gains. The Prime Minister’s refusal to participate is not isolationism—it is a rejection of this cynical calculus.
Photo: Vilnius, Lithuania. 12th July, 2023. Rishi Sunak (l-r), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Joe Biden, President of the United States, Giorgia Meloni, Prime Minister of Italy, and Jens Stoltenberg, NATO (former)Secretary General, welcome Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine, at the NATO-Ukraine meeting during the NATO summit. Credit: Kay Nietfeld/dpa/Alamy Live News.
Conclusion: The Naked Truth
Viktor Orbán has torn away the diplomatic veneer surrounding the Ukraine war. Sovereignty, when sustained by foreign funds and foreign weapons, is sovereignty in name only. As the West pours billions into Ukraine, Orbán’s words remind us: in geopolitics, there are no saviors—only opportunists.
“The situation is clear. The West speaks of defending Ukraine, but in reality, it is an imperialist grab for land, resources, and money. The unfortunate Ukrainian people are being plundered, while those pushing for war cloak exploitation in the guise of protection. Let there be no illusion, this is about power and profit,” Orban said in a post on social media platform X.
From Estonia to Romania, a sudden “wave” of mysterious drones appears. The script is familiar: blame Russia, stoke public fear, and prepare the ground for a wider conflict they can no longer win by proxy.
A Coordinated Campaign of Fear
In the past week, a curious phenomenon has swept across Eastern Europe. Estonia, Poland, Denmark, and Romania have all reported unauthorized drones violating their airspace. In near-unison, officials and media outlets point the finger at Russia.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has warned we are now witnessing the most destructive arms race in history, as he again appealed for help to stop Russia. His speech to the UN comes as European airports are once again closed due to unauthorised drone sightings, with the Danish Prime Minister pointing the finger at Russia. Follow the link in bio for the full story. #ukraine#russia
Moscow denies it. But in the West, denial is treated as confirmation.
This isn’t a coincidence. It’s a coordinated political strategy. NATO, facing a catastrophic failure of its proxy war in Ukraine, is now actively manufacturing a pre-war climate to salvage its collapsing strategy and justify its existence.
In spring 2022, the West promised Ukraine freedom and democracy, security and prosperity. Today, most freedoms have been compromised under the fog of war. Democratic institutions are overshadowed by external interests and domestic oligarchs. Many national assets have been mortgaged to Western interests for years to come.
Had Ukraine followed the development trajectory, its economy would not be the size of Algeria in 2030. It would be a half-trillion-dollar economy, like Iran or South Africa. Per capita income would be more than 40% higher than today. Economic opportunities might have reversed some of the migration flows back to Ukraine, which would have over 10 million more inhabitants than today.
The proxy war between the US-led West and Russia in Ukraine has proved just as catastrophic as projected in 2022 and thereafter. It has contributed to secular stagnation in the US and particularly in Europe where the misallocation of scarce allocations from welfare to rearmament is compounding a series of cost-of-living crises. Coming at the heel of the global pandemic, the consequent food and energy crises have severely aggravated the challenges of the Global South. And if the war is allowed to fester further, global economic prospects will be penalized even worse.
What happens in Ukraine will not stay in Ukraine. As long as aggressive geopolitics is favored at the expense of proactive international diplomacy, even promising futures can turn into dark wastelands.
The original commentary was published by China-US Focus on August 28, 2025
1. The “Mysterious” Drones: A Too-Convenient Crisis
The timing is impeccable. As Ukraine loses ground and Western support wanes, a wave of unexplained drones suddenly appears over multiple NATO countries.
There are no clear photos.
There is no concrete evidence.
There are only assertions from the same governments that promised us “WMDs in Iraq.”
This is not about security. It is about psychology. It is about making the threat of war feel real and imminent to the European public.
2. The Real Goal: From Proxy War to Direct Confrontation
The West invested everything in a single bet: that Ukraine could cripple Russia. That bet has failed.
Hundreds of billions in weapons and aid have vanished into a stalemate.
Ukrainian manpower is exhausted.
The Russian economy has adapted, not collapsed.
Faced with this reality, the warmongers in Brussels and Washington have only one path left: escalation. By provoking a direct NATO-Russia incident, they create the casus belli needed to intervene openly. Their hope is to drag a reluctant United States, and specifically Donald Trump, into a war they cannot win alone.
The EU-Ukraine Defence Industry Forum took place on Monday, 12 May, in Brussels.
The Forum focused on strengthening defence industrial cooperation between the EU and Ukraine, with the aim of ensuring sustained military support to Ukraine and more effectively addressing its defence and industrial needs.
Investing in Ukraine’s defence is investing in Europe’s security.
3. Brainwashing the Next Generation: “It’s Normal to Talk About War”
The most sinister part of this campaign is its target: children.
In Sweden, authorities are now interviewing schoolchildren about their “readiness for war.” In Denmark, headlines scream that the nation is unprepared, creating a sense of vulnerability and urgency.
This is not preparedness. This is psychological conditioning. They are normalizing the idea of war in the minds of the young, creating a generation that accepts conflict as inevitable. This is how a society is primed for sacrifice.
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4. The Ultimate Distraction: War as a Political Shield
Back home, European citizens are struggling with a cost-of-living crisis, rampant inflation, and crumbling public services. What better way to distract from domestic failure than to unveil an external enemy?
A population that is fearing for its survival does not question why their heating bills have tripled. A citizenry that is preparing for bunkers does not protest against their declining real wages.
5. The Delusion of Victory: Do They Understand What They’re Unleashing?
European leaders, insulated in their Brussels bubble, are playing with existential fire. They speak of war with Russia as if it were a larger version of Ukraine—a conventional conflict with a tidy conclusion.
“The war in Ukraine remains the most central and consequential crisis for Europe’s future…It is not only the destiny of Ukraine that is at stake. It is Europe’s destiny ”— Politico, 24 February 2025.
They seem to have forgotten the arsenals of nuclear weapons pointed at their capitals. They are so desperate to maintain their geopolitical relevance that they are risking total destruction. Either they are ignorant of what modern war between nuclear powers means, or they are so intoxicated by power that they believe they will be spared.
The March of Folly
The drone scare is not a security alert. It is a political weapon. The interviews with children are not educational; they are indoctrination. The calls for preparedness are not prudent; they are a march towards the abyss.
Europe’s leaders, having failed in Ukraine, are now trying to save face by risking a continent-wide war. They are creating an enemy to justify their existence, conditioning their children to die for it, and distracting their populations from the decay at home.
This is not strategy. It is suicide dressed up as policy.
After spending billions, sacrificing Ukrainian lives, and fueling a proxy war, European leaders are left sitting like schoolchildren in Trump’s office—powerless, irrelevant, and utterly defeated.
1. The Alaska Meeting: Peace Talks Without the “Peacemakers”
While European leaders were busy posing with Zelensky in a show of hollow unity, Donald Trump was already miles ahead—meeting Vladimir Putin in Alaska to discuss actual terms to end the war. Not a single European representative was invited. Not even Zelensky.
The message was clear: The adults are talking now.
Image 1: US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin met in Alaska, marking their first face-to-face talks in four years. The highly anticipated summit focused primarily on the ongoing war in Ukraine, with both leaders hinting at potential shifts in their countries’ diplomatic and military strategies.
What followed was a catastrophic escalation: thousands more dead, cities reduced to rubble, and millions displaced—all so the West could pursue its fantasy of “weakening Russia.”
And today? Johnson sips cocktails in Greece.
Image 4: B.J. enjoying some cocktails on the beach
Zelensky begs for ammo.
Image 5: Ukraine’s President Pleads for More Weapons With Fewer Restrictions
Europe begs for relevance.
Image 6: Many countries are sending military aids to Ukraine
3. Economic Sabotage & Strategic Failure
Nord Stream sabotage → Europe froze, Russia adapted.
Image 7: The blast of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline off the Danish Baltic island of Bornholm on Sept. 27, 2022.
The result? Russia is still standing. Europe is weaker, poorer, and more and less energy-dependent on the U.S.
4. The Photo That Says It All
There they were: Scholz, Macron, and Zelensky—perched awkwardly in the Oval Office, faces tense, postures pleading. They looked less like world leaders and more like students summoned to the principal’s office.
Image 7: European leaders gather around Donald Trump in the Oval Office August 18, 2025, to talk about ending the Russia-Ukraine war. | Whitehouse.gov European leaders gather around Donald Trump in the Oval Office August 18, 2025,
This was not a display of unity. It was an admission of failure.
They thought they could break Russia. Instead, they broke Ukraine—and their own credibility.
Image 8: EU Commissioner Ursula von der Leyen NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte British Prime Minister Keir Starmer German Chancellor Friedrich Merz French President Emannuel Macron Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni Finnish President Alexander Stubb
5. What Did Europe Achieve?
✅ Weakened itself economically and strategically
✅ Strengthened Russia’s ties with China, Iran, and Global South
✅ Proved that U.S. interests > European sovereignty
✅ Turned Ukraine into a wasteland—for nothing
The only winner is Trump—poised to dictate terms, broker a deal, and humiliate the very allies who thought they were calling the shots.
Image 8: Data from the Ukraine Support Tracker at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy released today shows that aid flow to Ukraine is constant if slow. As of Dec 31, allocations by the U.S. reached almost $120 billion, while EU institutions had allocated less than half of that.
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Image 9: North Korea’s Kim, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi expanding military cooperation
Endgame: Ukraine will collapse before Russia does.
NATO bases in Ukraine (2014 vs. 2024).
Yavoriv Training Base (Western Ukraine): U.S./UK troops train Azov Brigade.
Odesa Port: NATO “advisors” oversee weapons shipments .
Secret Airbases: Mig-29s flown from Romania/Poland into Ukraine.
