Hungary won't accept more NATO troops on its soil, says foreign minister Szijjarto

[Klaralven]

Hungary will not accept further NATO troops on its soil as part of manoeuvres over the Ukraine crisis, its foreign minister has told Euronews.

The US has sent extra soldiers to Poland and Romania while Germany has bolstered troop numbers in Lithuania — NATO troops are already stationed in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania as well as Poland.

But Péter Szijjártó said no extra troops would arrive on Hungarian soil.

"No, we have not agreed to that and we will not agree because we have already NATO's troops on the territory of the country, which is the Hungarian army and the Hungarian armed forces, [they] are in the proper shape to guarantee the security of the country. So we don't need additional troops on the territory of Hungary."

https://www.euronews.com/2022/02/09/ukraine-crisis-hungary-won-t-accept-more-nato-troops-on-its-soil-says-foreign-minister-szi

[Haggard Celine]

1. I was just doing the math.

Hungary is adored by white nationalists in the U.S., as is Russia. Hungary is likely allied with Putin. The EU should kick Hungary out if they're going to side with Russia.

[BlueIdaho]

2. How do they feel about having Russian troops on their soil?

Because I’m thinking that’s the alternative.

[Klaralven]

5. They resisted in '56. They would do so again.

[sprinkleeninow]

3. Of course not, considering admiration of the orangeous.

[abqtommy]

4. It seems that present-day Hungarian leaders must remember The Hungarian Revolution

of 1956 that was brutally suppressed by The U.S.S.R. in the end. I was 7 years old in 1956 but I have studied their revolution in school and later as an adult. I don't expect
sPUTIN's tactics to differ much from Stalin's.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_Revolution_of_1956

[Klaralven]

6. They have been a great power chew toy before; don't want to be again.

Throughout the counter-revolutionary events, Radio Free Europe (RFE) continually encouraged the Hungarian revolutionaries, nationalist and anti-communist, to battle the Red Army and the Hungarian communists until outside help, from NATO, arrived at the borders of Hungary. After the USSR defeated the anti-communist Hungarian Revolution, the revolutionists criticised the CIA and their RFE network for having deceived the Hungarians into believing that the West – the NATO and the US – would expel the USSR from the Hungarian People's Republic.[130] In the event, Dulles of the CIA deceived Pres. Eisenhower about the broadcasting of mendacious promises of external military support for the anti-communist Hungarians. Eisenhower believed Dulles, because CIA had classified and hidden the transcriptions of the mendacious CIA broadcasts that falsely promised military aid the Hungarian revolutionaries to overthrow the Communist government of Hungary.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_Revolution_of_1956#International