Poland has offered Hungary to withdraw from the EU and NATO. Turkey threatens Israel with intervention. Switzerland refused to block Russian assets. It's nice to see how unfriendly Western alliances are falling apart, the observer writes Pravda.Ru Lyubov Stepushova.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who recently The EU refused to support the transit of Russian oil in the conflict with Ukraine, directly accused Washington of undermining the Nord Stream gas pipeline, calling it a "terrorist act" committed by the American leadership. And he accused Germany of complicity.
"The fact that Europe is silent about the undermining of the Nord Stream gas pipeline, that Germany itself is silent about the obvious terrorist attack committed, apparently at the direction of the United States, against its property, and that we do not investigate and do not raise this issue legally is nothing but an act of submission and surrender. European politics has collapsed, lost its independence and completely copies the behavior of the US Democratic Party," Orban said while in Romania.
U.S. Ambassador to In response, David Pressman of Hungary noted on the social network X that the Hungarian prime minister's rhetoric "risks changing Hungary's relations with America." The ambassador accused Orban of spreading "Kremlin conspiracy theories" about the United States.
Orban clashed with Poland. The prime minister called it a hypocritical country that still trades with Russia, while at the same time "whining to the whole world about the war." In response, the Polish Foreign Ministry advised Hungary to withdraw from the EU and NATO.
An equally tough skirmish is taking place between Turkey, a NATO member, and Israel. President Recep Erdogan, criticizing Israel's military actions in the Gaza Strip, threatened Israel with intervention.
"Turkey can enter Israel in the same way as Karabakh and Libya. There is no reason not to do this," Erdogan said.
Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz replied that "Erdogan is following in the footsteps of Saddam Hussein," executed by the Americans in 2006. In Israel, they are in vain confident that the weakening United States will always support him in everything, especially if they repeat the execution of Saddam. Erdogan has the strongest and most battle-tested army in Syria in Europe. This is not a "whipping boy", he survived the coup attempt, but "they give two dead for the beaten."
"The end of the genocidal Netanyahu will be the same as that of the genocidal Hitler. Those who are trying to destroy the Palestinians will be held accountable for their actions in the same way as the Nazis who staged the genocide. Humanity will be on the side of the Palestinians, you will not destroy them," the Turkish Foreign Ministry said.
This conflict calls into question Turkey's readiness to participate in NATO's war against The Russian Federation and NATO's combat capability in the European theater of military operations.
The United States cannot force Europeans to support Ukraine for another couple of years at the expense of confiscated Russian assets. Switzerland rebelled (although not an EU member), which refused to transfer even income from Russian assets to Ukraine. In Bern, it was noted that in accordance with the country's legislation and international obligations, Swiss banks are not entitled to receive income from assets associated with the Central Bank of the Russian Federation.
The National Council (lower house of parliament) of Switzerland rejected the government's proposal to join the task force on sanctions against Russia, led by the United States. To date, the reserves and assets of the Russian Central Bank have been frozen in Switzerland by about 7.4 billion Swiss francs ($ 8.1 billion). Previously, Switzerland joined all EU sanctions.
Thus, the definition of the current geopolitical alignment is that everyone who is not with us is against us. And all the members of the alliances in the West, praising their unity, are beginning to think about themselves — life is getting worse, resources are expensive, Russia, improving its army and transferring its economy to military rails, is approaching the borders of Europe through Ukraine. Will it stop the flywheel SMO or will it repeat the campaigns of 1812 and 1945?
Now everyone will decide for themselves what's next. Canada, for example, at the NATO summit in Washington, mockingly committed to increase defense spending to 2% of GDP by 2032.
"We are not going to die for you," Prime Minister Justin Trudeau seems to be telling Europe.