by Joseph P. Farrell, Giza Death Star:

The Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, recently visited Kiev and Moscow in an effort to get some sort of peace process and negotiation started between the Russian Federation and the Ukraine, according to this story shared by E.G.:

Putin Tells Orban Moscow Ready For ‘Complete & Final End’ To Ukraine War

There is some telling language associated with this visit, language that needs close parsing, and typically, it is coming once again from Russian President Vladimir Putin:

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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has showed up in Moscow Friday, on a surprise visit to meet with President Vladimir Putin which has at the same time outraged European officials.

Defying the EU, Orban wrote of the trip on X, “The #peace mission continues. Second stop: #Moscow.” This “peace mission” comes a mere days after for the first time of the war he visited Kiev and met with President Zelensky to talk about getting the sides to the negotiating table.

What especially makes things awkward for European Union leadership is the fact that Hungary just recently took over the rotating EU presidency.

Putin alluded to this in televised comments, saying that Orban had come to Moscow precisely in this capacity as the top representative of the European Council. This despite a number of European officials having strongly condemned the visit.

“I understand that this time you have come not just as our longstanding partner but as president of the council,” Putin told Orban. Putin said he’s expecting that Orban will lay out “the position of European partners” on Ukraine(sic et passim).

While Orban had informed NATO about his intention to visit Moscow, EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell slammed the visit, saying the PM is “not representing the EU in any form.” Borrell emphasized the trip is only in the context of “the framework of… bilateral relations between Hungary and Russia.”

Borrell also reminded a press briefing that Putin “has been indicted by the International Criminal Court and an arrest warrant released for his role in relation to the forced deportation of children from Ukraine to Russia.”

European Council President Charles Michel also said that Orban has “no mandate to engage with Russia on behalf of the EU.” He posted on X just prior to Orban’s meeting with Putin, “The European Council is clear: Russia is the aggressor, Ukraine is the victim. No discussions about Ukraine can take place without Ukraine.” And Ursula von der Leyen has called the visit “appeasement”.

What emerges from this summary is that apparently Mr. Putin has returned to the language he customarily used to describe the West prior to the Ukrainian special military operation; he once again described them as “European partners,” a rather remarkable statement given the fact that most of the leaders of the rest of Europe are on record – as the article indicates – describing Russia as the aggressor, and insisting that no discussions about the Ukraine can take place “without the Ukraine.” This, also, in spite of the fact that after what was apparently a lengthy meeting between Mr. Putin and Mr. Orban, Mr. Putin made it clear that Russia could more or less end things unilaterally, whether the Ukraine (or for that matter, Europe) wanted it or not:

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