PHEurope has never seen an election like this one. On election day, guns will be blazing in a neighboring country. Great wars do not come out of nowhere. Economic crisis, shortage of raw materials, arms competition, pandemics, false prophets, assassination attempts, sinister shadows all around us. This is how it starts. There have been generations on this earth – our grandparents and great-grandparents – whose worst nightmares became reality. We observe the signs. We see the writing on the wall. Hungarians know the nature of war. They know that a war always ends differently from the way it was first imagined. This is why today millions of young Europeans lie in mass graves. This is why there are not enough Europeans, why there are not enough European children. War kills. Someone dies with a gun in his hands. Someone dies while fleeing. Someone dies under bombardment. Someone dies in an enemy’s prison. Someone dies in a pandemic. Someone dies of starvation. Someone is tortured. Someone is raped. Someone is taken into slavery. The lines of graves are endless. Mothers weep for their sons. Women weep for their husbands. So many lives lost. One thing we know: wherever war sets its foot, there is no escape. War will catch up with you: you cannot dodge it, you cannot hide from it.
The only antidote to war is peace: to stay out of the war and maintain Hungary as an island of peace. This is our mission. And if we do not want war not to catch up with us, we must stop it: now! This peace cannot be won with weapons. This war cannot be resolved on the battlefield, where you only find corpses and destruction. There must be a ceasefire and there must be negotiations. But first of all, the election must be won. The election must be won next week. And in one week from now, we will receive reinforcements from all the countries of Europe, and we can build a pro-peace European coalition in Brussels. In the autumn the Americans can elect a pro-peace president, and with them we can bring together a pan-Western, transatlantic peace coalition. At the beginning of the year we were in the minority, but by the end of the year we could be in the majority throughout the Western world.
The only antidote to war is peace: to stay out of the war and maintain Hungary as an island of peace. This is our mission. And if we do not want war not to catch up with us, we must stop it: now! This peace cannot be won with weapons. This war cannot be resolved on the battlefield, where you only find corpses and destruction. There must be a ceasefire and there must be negotiations. But first of all, the election must be won. The election must be won next week. And in one week from now, we will receive reinforcements from all the countries of Europe, and we can build a pro-peace European coalition in Brussels. In the autumn the Americans can elect a pro-peace president, and with them we can bring together a pan-Western, transatlantic peace coalition. At the beginning of the year we were in the minority, but by the end of the year we could be in the majority throughout the Western world.