Another War

While I was researching yesterday afternoon blog I came across this.

When Russia invaded Ukraine they said it was to protect the Russians living in the Ukraine. Then we have Trump invading other countries, and now the rhetoric coming out of Hungary!

Orbán says Ukraine is mistreating its Hungarian minority. It’s not that simple.

Christian Science Monitor

By Dominique Soguel

April 08, 2026

With snow lending a deceptive calm to the forested landscape of Ukraine’s Zakarpattia region, the war between Russia and Ukraine feels distant, but for recruitment posters and conscription patrols combing mountain roads.

Yet the war is casting a large shadow here, shaped through the lens of a conflict much closer to home: the one between Kyiv and Budapest over Zakarpattia’s Hungarian minority.

Zakarpattia, or Transcarpathia, is home to tens of thousands of ethnic Hungarians, and their well-being is a central talking point in the nationalist rhetoric of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who is widely viewed as sympathetic to Moscow and critical of Ukraine. Mr. Orbán frequently alleges that Ukraine’s Hungarian minority, many of whom can vote in Hungary, endures systematic discrimination and disproportionate conscription.

Does all this seems familiar? Does this sound like they are leading up to invading Ukraine?

Mr. Orbán frames his government’s engagement in and funding for Zakarpattia as a matter of minority protection. The government of Ukraine, led by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, sees the subject through the lens of national cohesion and puts emphasis on upholding Ukrainian as the official language. Hungarian media focuses on cultural and educational rights, while Ukrainian outlets tend to raise questions about the community’s patriotism.

Kind of sounds like Trump's rantings, doesn't it?

Budapest has funded a wide range of initiatives across Zakarpattia. Locals credit Mr. Orbán with supporting cultural organizations and churches, financing the renovation of schools and kindergartens, and backing media outlets and local football clubs. Several establishments said to receive funding from Hungary declined interviews.

Let's see during WWII Germany used the same argument when they went into Austria, Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies writes,

The Anschluss was the annexation of the Federal State of Austria into the German Reich on 12 March 1938.  When Adolf Hitler rose to power in Germany, desire for unification could be identified with the Nazis, for whom it was an integral part of the Nazi “Heim ins Reich” concept, which sought to incorporate as many Volksdeutsche (ethnic Germans outside Germany) as possible into a “Greater Germany”.   Nazi Germany’s agents cultivated pro-unification tendencies in Austria, and sought to undermine the Austrian government.

And now we see the rhetoric coming from Mr. Orbán it has to make you wonder... another war?