In a calmly delivered yet passionate speech to an exclusive dinner for Patron members of the American Chamber of Commerce in Hungary on Dec. 5, U.S. Ambassador David Pressman went from a long list of benefits American businesses offer to Hungarians via Washington’s deep concerns over the policies of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s government in recent years to optimism for the future based on the country’s youth.
As President Joe Biden was visiting U.S. troops in Poland, a senior aide to Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said officials were “very disappointed” in the outcome of the talks among NATO and EU leaders in Brussels that brought Biden to Europe. “We expected more bravery,” said the aide.
The US diplomat George Kennan, an astute observer of Soviet Russia under Stalin, offered his observations later in life on the question of NATO expansion. The tragedy of our times is that those views are being ignored. Winston Churchill once.
winstonThe US diplomat George Kennan, an astute observer of Soviet Russia under Stalin, offered his observations later in life on the question of NATO expansion.
The US diplomat George Kennan, an astute observer of Soviet Russia under Stalin, offered his observations later in life on the question of NATO expansion.