VIKTOR ORBÀN BREAKS THE CULTURE OF SILENCE IN EUROPE AS SANCTIONS AGAINST RUSSIA BITES BACK…. a report written by Cadre Shmuel Ja’Mba Abm

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Viktor Orbàn, the heavily endorsed and retained Hungarian President, who recently won overwhelmingly in early elections called before schedule dates, has broken a thick overhanging veil that has enveloped Europe, since Russia in a claim of demilitarisation and denazification operations in Ukraine, came under a series of phases of sanctions.

News reports released confirm his decision to accept Russian government’s conditional sales of gas payments in roubles. Europe has come under a sudden economic recession with German banks reporting slowed economic activities and dire consequences, if Russia in a counter to imposed sanctions decides to shut the flow of gas supplies. The biting effects of possible Russian countersanctions cuts across Europe, as other European capitals have started experiencing economic downtrend and spiraling price hikes.

Some European countries, mindful of a possible backlash for trading hard decisions against Russia with dire consequences, have remained tight-lipped and adopted a wait-and-see attitude to watch awhile to see the outcome of the hard ball played between the former cold war rivals, Russia and the USA, which escalation tension seems to scale it back. Political pundits have named countries like France, Germany and Hungary as countries, who think the best approach was to engage Russia and not trade hostilities with such a strategic global partner with a sphere of influence.

Russia came under severe economic sanctions ever imposed on any country by the US government and it’s NATO allies, when on February 24, its military under instructions to demilitarise and denazify the country rolled its tanks and troops into its neighbour, Ukraine. Ukraine and its newfound NATO friends called it an invasion. Volodmyer Zelensky, the Ukrainian President, has courted new friends in the West for his tough stance goaded by his Western government admirers.

Days after Russia hit back at the United States of America government, after it announced sanctions against Russia, news picked talked about a US delegation spotted in Caracas, capital of Venezuela, as America seems to be scaling back to revive its sphere of influence in its backyard after exchanges of hostilities. Before his death, the late Hugo Chávez, former President of Venezuela, embarked on a series of anti-Western skirmishes provoked by Britain over a long standing dispute over border demarcations, which is thought to be mineral resourced.

His successor, Nicholás Maduro, has had running battles with American military supervisors hellbent to remove him from office. On January 23, 2019, tensions escalated, when Juan Gerardo Guaidó Márquez declared himself acting President of Venezuela, refusing to recognise Nicolás Maduro as the President. This invited US military presence to install an American puppet regime, which collided with Russian intervention, after flying two stealth aircrafts together with a refueling tanker nonstop from Moscow to Caracas. Juan Gerardo Guaidó Márquez, was a former member of the social-democratic Popular Will party, and a Deputy to the National Assembly representing the State of Vargas.

Russia has also started a renewed diplomatic leg to oil its creaky and wobbly relationships abroad, touching down first in India to revive subtle partnership. Meanwhile, the existing relationship between India and China, and between India and Pakistan, aren’t one of the best. But Russia needs them all now to survive the sanctions imposed by America and its NATO allies. As part of its effort to reshape its foreign trade, the heir to the former Soviet Union has renewed working with China, Turkey, South Africa, just to mention a few. Both Turkey and South Africa have indicated willingness to host negotiation talks to resolve the growing escalating tension between Russia and its South Western neighbour, Ukraine.

America was done a deadly blow recently, in its attempt at re-engineering its sphere of influence across the globe, since the outbreak of hostilities between Russia and Ukraine. China and Saudi Arabia have concluded a final deal reached, where the former agreed to take yuan in payments for its gas supplies. This brings to close circuit a revelation under speculations, that the two giants – China and Russia – have come together to break Western European domination of the world economy for the past 500 years. In anticipation of fulfilling this plan, both China and Russia have backed their currencies with gold reserves, and  embarked on an ambitious programme of interbank financial telecommunications, after Russia was taken off the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial System.

Russian President, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, has decried Western governments for having ill-advised the Ukrainian leader, Volodmyer Zelensky, to apply to join NATO. In various monitored statements issued, President Putin has also accused NATO, saying its systematic eastwards expansion since the fall of the Berlin Wall, are acts of provocation towards Russia. Organisation of Security in Europe, in 1994, assured the Russian Federation of NATO not expanding an inch from its previous borders.

Not only has NATO expanded its membership to include former members of the Warsaw Pact Countries or the Eastern Bloc, but the expansion has reached former Soviet Republics, and a Russian strategic partner, Ukraine. President Putin has lamented Western governments silence over the forcible removal of Viktor Yanukovich, a democratically elected President of Ukraine, from office. Previously, US government efforts restored ousted former Haitian President, Jean Bertrand Aristide from exile where he fled for protection. Similarly, British military protection ensured the return of Tijan Kaba, the former President of Sierra Leone.

After the removal of Viktor Yanukovich from office as President of Ukraine, the report further states, that a persistent waged campaign of terror, carried out by a group which used demonstrations at Ukraine’s Maidan Square for the purpose, came under the umbrella of Azov Brigade to carryout series of atrocities in Eastern Ukraine, since 2014. The report accuses Western governments silence, which ignored all pleas calling for help or any form of intervention. In the recent case of Bucha and Mariopol, to cite just these two cases, the report sees the hue and cries of war crimes as different folks different strokes, if this is compared to what transpired at Donbass, Donetsk and Lugansk; all in Eastern Ukraine and indigenously ethnic Russian.