A Assumption That destabilises Europe

There are three countries that couldn't be different. Small, Christian Hungary has fewer than ten million inhabitants. Turkey, Muslim, has a population of nearly 83 million. The Russian Federation, predominantly Christian, has 150 million inhabitants. At first glance, all three countries seemed to have nothing in common. So why are they provoking chaos in international order?

European Union member State, called in the election today, Hungary prepares to give for the third time a majority mandate to Prime Minister Viktor Orban, the man who invented the concept of non-liberal democracy”, a regime in which leaders are elected, but information tools are controlled, and where freedoms continue to be reduced. Hungary has embarked on the path of confrontation with all European values, where there is actually no exclusiveness because, since Poland, other countries of former Soviet bloc origin share with it the refusal of any European internationalism.

Historical Debt

Turkey, a NATO member since the early 50th, has continued to draw close to Russia, from which it buys weapons, while increasingly risking military clashes in Syria, with the US or France, on the Kurdish issue, targeted by Ankara, but who are trusted by the US, to defeat the Islamic State. As for Russia, we know how things are. It remains to be understood what these three countries do, due to so many problems.

The answer is, all three suffer the pain caused by a disability. At the end of World War I, Hungary lost more than two thirds of its territories. In the same era, Turkey lost what had been one of the greatest empires of history, the Ottoman Empire. And Russia lost thirty years ago to central Europe that had “seized” Stalin and the empire that the Czar had built over the centuries.

Today, Hungary dreams of a return to past greatness, cultivating the nationalism of Hungarian populations living in lost territories.

After trying to regain imperial borders through economic and political design, Turkey wants to prevent Syria's Kurds from gaining independence, fearing it could fuel Turkish Kurds' iredentism. Russia, in the end, would like to place a protectorate on countries that were once part of the Karad Empire.

In essence, Hungary, Turkey and Russia share the fact that they have not yet accepted, that they are no longer what they used to be. / France Inter World.al