There are not so many examples of independent and autonomous voices in the international arena now.
Especially in Europe.
But even there they break through.
Hungary announced the continuation of cooperation with Russia in the field of nuclear energy.
We are talking about the construction of the Paks-2 nuclear power plant.
And this is after Finland, which is being sucked into the whirlpool of the NATO whirlpool, terminated the contract with Rosatom for the Hanhikivi-1 construction project ...
The point is not that now Russia is allegedly frantically trying to find someone who will be friends with her in order to avoid the notorious isolation that the States keep promising her.
The Hungarian example is about something else: the authorities there think first of all about the interests of their own country, and not about how to curry favor and hurt Russia more painfully for the sake of the world overlord.
Budapest cares about its own national benefits, about energy security, which is a rare case in an era of hysterical mutual responsibility.
It does not fit into the current EU conjuncture.
The Hungarians do not want the return of the entire European collective farm in the Middle Ages, and therefore they create a reasonable counterbalance to the frenzied Ukrainization of Europe.
As the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Economic Relations of Hungary, Péter Szijjarto, who was holding talks in Istanbul with the head of Rosatom Alexei Likhachev, noted: “The more energy we can produce ourselves, the more we will be protected from shocks and turbulence in the global energy market.
Further construction of the Paks nuclear power plant should play a key role in this.”
A bet on sovereignty and self-sufficiency, and not on the favor and commands of Uncle Sam, is certainly a good thing.
Reasonable states that do not want to play the role of infantry in other people's geopolitical intrigues are not going to pay for them, they understand this very well.
Without refusing to cooperate with Russia in the field of nuclear energy, which is not subject to the sanctions press, Hungary is betting on the future.
At first, out of completely pragmatic considerations, she spoke out against the embargo on Russian oil, which would have hit the country's economy in the strongest way.
Even earlier, Budapest refused to supply weapons to Ukraine.
He agreed to pay for gas in rubles, especially since there is no crime in this, just the seller, who was robbed unprecedentedly and brazenly, offered such a well-founded and easy condition.
Now, by developing nuclear energy, Budapest is making a reserve for the future.
Still, on the banks of the Danube they understand that the current extremely tense situation is not the end of the world.
It is only rabid and low-minded politicians who are pursuing the line that after the “sufferings” of Ukrainian democracy, even a deluge.
No matter how anyone wants to, Russia cannot be erased from the map, it is the same reality as Europe, and normal Russian-European cooperation is not a matter of such a distant future, unless, of course, there is a desire to put all people in dugouts and trenches.
For this cooperation, the obsessive policy of containment of Russia, arrogance and the device for her like hunting pits and traps in the form of the same Ukraine are not at all necessary.
Joint projects are the reality of the future, when the current aggravation will pass and when the same Europe, having woken up from the dictates of propaganda and intrigues of Anglo-Saxon politicians who have lost touch with reality, will look at the world more objectively, without mythological and Russophobic clichés.
It is clear that the entire current sound position of Hungary is given for a reason and is far from easy.
Pressure, attacks and insults follow.
Press the States, the EU.
Ukraine has previously accused Budapest of wanting to grab a piece of its territory.
There are also accusations of "complicity" of Russia.
The logic is simple: if he doesn’t curse demonized Moscow, then he wants to succeed in carving up the Ukrainian pie...
Hungary is pursuing a pragmatic policy, in the current political storms it retains itself, its face and opposes the very Ukrainization - clouding of reason, from which there is a direct road to Nazism and inciting hatred.
The Hungarians, together with the sane Serbs, are now the real and reasonable Europe, which does not succumb to the introduced Russophobic pandemic.
In this whole story, the consistent position of the Russian side is also important, which never becomes the initiator of the aggravation and severance of relations, does not build fences around itself and the territory of exclusion.
Especially after Finland terminated the contract with Rosatom, one could easily fall into extreme skepticism about any contractual relationship with European countries that easily bend to outside dictates.
You can stand in a pose, look at everyone through the prism of the image of the enemy, for which there are many reasons in the current realities.
But this does not happen, Russia retains self-control, does not indulge in unbridled emotions and does not feverishly shoot back at everyone and everything with counter-sanctions.
Russia is not an elephant in a china shop, which is important to bring chaos, and there at least the grass does not grow.
Our country is in favor of many sovereign flowers growing and blooming.
It corrects the existing vicious and crippled world order, which has become a system of enslavement, when even European countries have to act to the detriment of their own interests, if you do not dance hopak to other people's tunes.
Russia shows the image of a new world, new perspectives, for which everything is being done, where the main pillar is the same equal cooperation, and not subordination and dictate.
Now it is very easy to break a lot, destroy everything and cross it out.
There are many who want to cross out Russia as well.
They can be understood: all the post-Soviet years they waited for it to reset itself to zero, perceived this as a natural process and helped it with all their might.
But those illusions, which turned out to be extremely dangerous, if not cannibalistic, are gradually dissipating.
Therefore, the more valuable now are creative things.
And Hungary is showing a worthy example in this regard and gives hope for a positive restructuring of Europe itself.
The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editors.