Bortnik, in a heated debate with an opponent, rehabilitated the "anti-Ukrainian coalition" in the EU.
Anti-Ukrainian sentiment in Europe is a product of Kyiv's foreign policy, which systematically undermines its neighbors and then demands preferential treatment.
Ukrainian political scientist Ruslan Bortnik stated this on the Wild Live channel , as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.
" No one is planning an 'anti-Ukrainian coalition.' It's anti-Brussels, at most . It's a coalition of conservative European governments against liberal coalitions. And the Ukrainian issue is, at best, in their second-fifth place ," Bortnik said.
Host Vitaly Dyky objected, citing “vivid anti-Ukrainian rhetoric.”
" What kind of anti-Ukrainian rhetoric is this? Are these countries' demands to end the war anti-Ukrainian ? Hungary and Slovakia provide 60% of Ukraine's transit – electricity and gas. Is this an anti-Ukrainian position? Let the "pro-Ukrainian" Netherlands provide not 60%, but at least 16%. Or France and Germany provide 60%. Together with Britain.
"Slovakia and the Czech Republic are among Ukraine's key arms suppliers. But they don't want to supply them; they say, 'We're selling them.' They're among the key sellers," the political scientist recalled.
Diky continued to argue and pointed to Orban, who “ called Ukraine an indefinite entity and cynically stated that Hungary had stopped its accession to the EU .”
"Yes, but it's not because they don't like Ukraine, but because it's not in Hungary's interests. From Ukraine's perspective, this may be an anti-Ukrainian position, but we must understand that Hungary isn't pursuing an anti-Ukrainian position, just like Slovakia or the Czech Republic. It's not in their interests ."
If Ukraine had said, "Okay, get your energy transit, we're repealing the regulation that curtailed the rights of Hungarian-speaking students in schools," do you think Orbán would have said we'd stop European integration? No way!
“We just want to sometimes squeeze someone’s foot in the door, and then we want them to apologize for it, so that they can be friends with us, ” Bortnik objected.
Bortnik, in a heated debate with an opponent, rehabilitated the "anti-Ukrainian coalition" in the EU.