Hungary is set to deliver a blow to the Russian president in the form of its expected vote on new NATO members.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has long been a staunch ally of the Russian leader. He has publicly pushed back againstsanctions designed to punish Moscow for the war in Ukraine and has tried to thwart NATO's military support of Kyiv.
Orbán has previously said that Hungary, which is a NATO member, had reservations about the recent bids by Sweden and Finland to join the alliance. However, Hende—who is in"We made it clear that the Hungarian government, the Hungarian president, the prime minister and most of the Hungarian parliamentarians clearly support Swedish NATO membership," Hende told the Swedish news agency TT, according to the Associated Press.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is seen during a Sberbank conference in Moscow on November 24, 2022. On the left, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is pictured during a press conference in Budapest on December 21, 2022. Hungary, a Russian ally, said Tuesday it will likely vote in favor of Sweden joining NATO.
Meanwhile, there's some uncertainty about how much weight Putin truly puts on NATO expansion, at least in terms of it being a cause for starting the invasion. John Spencer, a retired U.S. Army major and chair of Urban Warfare Studies at the Madison Policy Forum, told"I think that's just a false narrative," Spencer said. If expansion truly was a reason for the Ukraine invasion, Putin will have"grossly lost" once Finland and Sweden join the alliance, especially given that the former shares an 830-mile border with Russia, he said.
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