I recall sitting next to Viktor Orbán at a dinner in Budapest in the early days of the war in Kosovo. It was spring 1999, and I asked Orbán why his government supported the NATO intervention despite considerable public opposition. Without pause, the prime minister — a year into his first time on the job — replied that it was important for Hungarians to experience what it’s like to be on the right side of history. The humanitarian intervention lasted just 78 days and NATO won decisively.
A decade and a half later, as NATO leaders meet in Warsaw, the …read more
Source: European Voice