Anti-War Rally, Kecskemét
Anti-War Rally, Kecskemét
December 6, 2025
Good afternoon!
Greetings to everyone, it is a real privilege to be here with you. But I must admit, it is also great relief. I spent the last few days in Brussels. This is what I got from Santa Claus this year, I suppose. And, well, I had some eye-opening experiences in Brussels. I attended a conference there. It turned out that Brussels was once again hosting a Christmas Fair on the Main Square. Of course, they didn’t dare to call it a Christmas Fair, it was called Winter Wonders, so that it would be sufficiently inclusive, but while the discussions were in progress at the conference, worrying news started to spread about an extremely morbid and terrible ordeal that had allegedly happened at the Christmas Fair: the baby Jesus had been beheaded in the nativity scene. This was the rumor. And everyone at the conference immediately took it for granted, because this kind of dreadful thing is quite common in Brussels. Then, fortunately, the news turned out to be untrue, because although the baby Jesus had indeed lost his head, it was not because of Islamic radicalism, but because of woke radicalism, as the local Christian community protested against the masked baby Jesus and infant head, which had been made woke-compatible, and covered with rainbow-colored ribbons, so the figure was removed and taken elsewhere as an expression of their protest.
This single incident alone demonstrates how this choice between Islamism and woke radicalism looks like – as if you have to choose between Scylla and Charybdis – in what is essentially the capital of Europe. And there is one thing that clearly shows from this, and it is more visible there than it seems from Hungary. Europe is clearly in a serious situation, a serious crisis. It is often said that this is a polycrisis or a multicrisis, where a multitude of events and effects are occurring simultaneously and pointing in one direction. One of these is migration. Here in Hungary, a lot of us believe that the debate is still about whether Hungary made the right decision in 2015 when it closed its borders. I can assure you that this is no longer a matter of discussion in Europe. It is obvious to everyone that Hungary made the right decision in closing its borders in 2015. The problem is that other European countries did not do the same. This means that since then, almost 10 million people, 10 million illegal immigrants, have entered Europe. A professor at King’s College told me in Brussels that, as a result of this and the social tensions it has caused, the probability of a situation close to civil war developing in a Western European country in the coming decades is, according to his calculations and research, over 80%. Over 80%, and I would like to add another piece of data here. Last year, in Nigeria alone, in this single sub-Saharan country, more children were born than in all the countries of the European Union combined. So when someone tells you that migration is a settled issue, a foregone conclusion, we must warn everyone that the opposite is true. This is not a problem of the past ten years, but a problem for the next generation; it is the everyday reality of Europe and Brussels. The other crisis afflicting Europe is the economic crisis. A few decades ago, the European Union accounted for 25% of the global economy. Today, it accounts for 15%. In a few decades, it will account for 5%. And no matter how much they try to deceive us about the reasons behind this, it did not happen as a result of a natural disaster. There is nothing supernatural behind it, it is a result of poorly managed economies and poorly managed countries.
There are two reasons why the European economy is stagnating. One is energy, because of the aggressive, ideological push for greening, because of the abandonment of nuclear energy, because of the sanctions imposed on Russian energy. Energy in Europe today costs three to five times more than in other strong Western or Eastern economies. Three to five times more, this is unsustainable. The other reason why European economies are suffering is because the European Union sees itself as a regulatory superpower. If someone has a good idea, if someone comes up with an innovation, what do European bureaucrats say? Let’s make a regulation for it! Let’s put it into a framework! According to them, innovation should not be encouraged, it should be regulated. Because of this, capital, not just foreign capital but European as well, is leaving the European Union. This is what causes economic stagnation.
Then, as mentioned in the previous discussion, there is a political crisis on top of that. The European elite is holding on to its power at all costs. They are trying to suppress resistance and the democratic rebellion against this in an anti-democratic manner. There are various signs of this, as Rajmund mentioned, such as the fact that the police were deployed to prevent peaceful rallies organized by harmless arts students, and things almost escalated to the point where they started dragging people away while they were talking about the importance of national sovereignty, and that perhaps migration is not a false problem after all. Nor is it a coincidence that the most popular German political party is under constant constitutional surveillance, as they call it. Nor is it a coincidence that the leading politician of the most popular French party is being dragged to court and charged with criminal offenses. And when they see that this is not enough, they do the same to the second most popular politician of that party. So there is a political crisis, and the European elite is trying to maintain its power in an anti-democratic way. And then on the top of this whole political crisis comes the war. I see a radically new situation in Europe. The Russian-Ukrainian war has been going on for four years, but fortunately, the United States is working hard to bring it to an end. We are doing everything we can to support them, and we hope they will succeed, but what is even more alarming is that, at the same time, Europe is working hard to start and prepare for a European-Russian war. And the timeline has already been set. Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, says that we must be ready for a direct military confrontation between Europe and Russia by 2030. This fits in with Ukraine’s accelerated accession to the European Union, for which they have set a target date of 2029. Why is this important? Because if Ukraine is a member of the European Union, it will be much easier to transfer resources there. On the one hand, it will be much easier to launch military operations from there and to involve European military forces in a direct conflict with Russia. Therefore, when Romulusz Ruszin-Szendi says in his blunt manner that if Ukraine were a member of the European Union, then it would be legitimate for our forces to go there, he is making a valid point, because that is indeed the key issue here.
Article 42, paragraph 7 of the Treaty on European Union is a defense clause. If a EU country is subject to armed attack, then every single member state has a duty to defend it. There is no way out of this. If we are in a union, then this is our war too. This is the situation; this is the European plan. And the escalation, the continuation and spread of a conflict is a well-documented subject. Three stages can be distinguished. The first stage is the severing of diplomatic relations. The so-called Normandy Four, consisting of Germany, France, Ukraine, and Russia, have met eight times since 2014. They have not met once since 2022. In fact, they challenge those who are working to keep diplomatic channels open. The second stage is preparation for war. This stage includes, I don’t know if these words sound familiar: sanctions, sabotage, war planning, preparing the civilian population, switching to a war economy, boosting the military industry. Suppressing voices against war and social resistance. And then comes the third stage: open and direct military confrontation. On June 28, 1914, it was reportedly a bright and sunny day in Sarajevo. Franz Ferdinand and his wife arrived at the Sarajevo train station. We were in a spiral of escalation. No one thought that in thirty-odd days a war would break out in which 65 million people would fight, three empires would collapse, 20 million people would die, and which would be directly responsible for almost all of the tragedies that occurred in Europe in the 20th century. We are in the middle of an escalation spiral. And there is one more point I would like to bring to your attention. It is well known that war requires three things: money, money, and money. Europeans want to raise this money from somewhere. They want to collect the resources necessary for war from somewhere. Let us consider the example of the Czech Republic as a warning. A few years ago, the Czech Republic elected a prime minister who described himself as right-wing. His name is Petr Fiala. But he was not elected on his own merits; he was elected through the left. A left-wing coalition pushed him into the prime minister’s seat. Within a few months, he became Brussels’ favorite politician. And what has happened in recent years? They gave 2,400 billion Forints worth of Czech korunas to finance the war and support Ukraine?
How? By tightening the budget, raising personal income tax, introducing property tax, raising VAT, increasing corporate tax, because the war has to be financed. It took the Czechs four years to remove this person from, a man for whom supporting the war and supporting Ukraine proved to be more important than the interests of the Czech people. This is a dead end that we Hungarians and other Central European countries must avoid.
Looking at these war plans that I have just outlined, there is also a timeline, so it is easy to calculate where we are now, or what situation we are in. It is certainly true that 2030 is the date set for the start of a possible military confrontation. If it is indeed true that this requires Ukraine to join the EU by 2029, then there will be only one parliamentary election in Hungary before that date. The 2026 parliamentary election. So, in fact, it is the 2026 parliamentary elections that will determine Hungary’s position on this European war plan. Will it support it, take a deep breath and join the countries advocating war, take a deep breath and allocate its resources to promoting this project, or not? And that is why, when I talk to people and partisan political issues come up, I tell everyone that partisan political issues are one thing. Everyone has their sympathies; everyone has their preferences. But in the period ahead of us, the most important question will be to think about which Hungarian politician can reasonably be expected to jump off this war train with Hungary as Europe rushes toward the abyss, and who can preserve the peace, security, and economic development opportunities of the Hungarian people. and the opportunities for economic development? Who can be expected not to allow Hungarian resources and Hungarian economic resources to go to Ukraine, and who has a chance to possibly derail the European elite, the pro-war elite, just as he derailed the pro-migration elite ten years ago? And who is the politician about whom there are reasonable doubts that he will not be able to do this? He may be capable of taking selfies, but Brussels’ darling, Brussels’ favorite, Ukraine’s favorite, is clearly not capable of performing this task. This is the task that the Hungarian people expect from Hungary’s next prime minister, regardless of party affiliation, in my opinion. The only person capable of performing this task is my Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán.
So, I would like to ask for your help in the coming months, please help us, for we need to spread this message. We must come together, unite, and talk to everyone in a calm and considered manner. This is not a matter of partisan politics, but a matter of our future and the future of our children and grandchildren. And if we all work together nicely, with love and peace, we will sweep the warmongering elite out of Brussels and Hungary, just as spring sweeps away winter, or sunshine sweeps away the clouds. Thank you very much for having me here. God bless you all!
