Wednesday morning, it became clear that not only the government media, but also government members are having a hard time dealing with the fact that US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin will not be coming to Budapest to make peace in the foreseeable future. Yet the pro-peace Hungarian government has been working on this for quite some time.
On Tuesday evening, the White House officially confirmed that Donald Trump has no intention of meeting with Putin in the near future, with the US president saying he does not want another unnecessary meeting like the one he had with Putin in Alaska. That meeting did not lead to any tangible results.
After hours of government media trying to build their own narrative, Péter Szijjártó could only be confused. He said that the Hungarian government was ready to hold the peace summit, and he didn't understand how anyone could talk about postponing it, since there was no date for the event.
It seems that Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has also joined the ranks of those distorting reality, as in his Facebook post on Wednesday morning he made it seem as if Péter Szijjártó, who is currently in Washington, was busy preparing for the peace summit – which is no longer on the agenda. He then wrote:
“The date is still uncertain. When the time comes, we will organize it”.
It is a bit like Orbán dreaming about what kind of lineup and when the Hungarian national football team would win the World Cup again. True, in the spring he still set this event for 2030, and then in the summer he was already talking about 2034. One day, the team may actually win the World Cup, but when, where and with what lineup are matters of the distant future. Obviously, Trump and Putin will also meet again, but when and where are matters of the future. For now, there is no sign that Moscow is willing to make any kind of truce or peace by making concessions to its own expectations. His 2.5-hour phone call last Thursday may have been more likely to prevent Zelensky, who arrived in Washington the next day, from receiving long-range Tomahawk missiles
from Trump.Instead of a peace summit, the Prime Minister will now have to settle for a standard Peace March, which, he says, will show the world that Hungary is an island of peace and that everyone here wants peace.
