For context:
Hungary is located in a mountain basin on the crossroads of Western Europe, Balkans, and Asia, and the language is basically an isolate. It has been a thousand years old argument whether or not to cooperate with outsiders or be isolated. There were countless civil war about it throughout history.
Orban won 4 consecutive elections, a huge part due branding himself as the saviour of Hungarians, against evil Brusselite globalists. So far in the last 20-ish years any time an international organization tried to put pressure on Hungary, they strengthened Orban's popularity.
The elections are coming in less than 40 days. Currently a guy called Magyar leads the polls over Orban, the first time since 2006 when the opposition let the polls for more than two weeks (and in 2006 Orban was the opposition). Magyar is favored by EU leaders and Ukrainians, and Orban has used emergency legislation since 2015 to basically steal people's private businesses and channel money to his friends' pockets to make a new upper-class.
EU leaders try to have a common military budget and common army, and Hungary is the main country that uses its veto to stop it. Zelensky blackmailed Orban multiple times in the recent weeks.
If they can help Orban win, they might be able to spark a civil war, take the veto rights due to instability, then create that common army and take Orban out.
What do you guys think?
TL:DR: In Hungary isolationism vs cooperation is a big deal. Orban's brand is that he poses as the saviour of the nation, but he has weaponized institutions for over a decade to steal people's private businesses to channel money to his friends and choke the opposition. His main opponent, Magyar, leads the polls, the first time since 2006 that someone is more popular than Orban. Zelensky openly blackmails Hungary and/or Orban. This might give Orban more popularity, and if Orban won, people would be very angry, and EU could have a reason to interfere by force.
What do you guys think?
Btw in the quote Zelensky is basically threatening to use armed forces against an officially elected head of government of NATO country, while his country is not in the NATO. Which is objectively quite a big deal.
Posted by Hopeful_Addition7834