Aaand like most americans Peter reached the limits of his competence while talking about eastern europe.

IIRC Slovakia sent their only S-300 system with all their missiles and spare parts to Ukraine in 2022 while the US was dithering about directly suppling Patriot systems. They also sent a good bit of their Soviet era armor and kit along with their ENTIRE AIR FORCE and all the spares for their jets and helicopters on the promise of them eventually being replaced with NATO issue gear. They probably did more to keep the Ukrainian Air Force flying in 2022 than any other country in Europe. This is a small country a tenth the size and population of Ukraine, about the size of the State of Louisiana in the US with roughly the same population (5.3 million Slovaks to 4.6 million Louisianans). These are not particularly rich people. The entire country has almost exactly half the annual GDP of Louisiana, which is not known as an exactly prosperous state (aside from oil refining). It's likely a good fraction of the population isn't pleased to not have (two years later) received the promised replacements.

I am Hungarian and also an anti-goverment person & Ukraine supporter but I have to note that we never think about out old territories as austro-hungarian, just hungarian. We had many conflicts with the Austrians during the Monarchy.

As a Hungarian, this guy has no clue about the region, he sounds very confident though. The poster child of Dunning Kruger.

The treaty of Trianon in 1919 really screwed Hungary. They lost roughly 2/3 of their territory and population. After WWI, the Hungarian military disarmed voluntarily on the advice of US president Woodrow Wilson, which left them defenseless against their new neighbors, and unable to resist the new treaty imposed upon them by the victors unlike, for example, Turkey.

No mention of austrian neutrality!?

You mention the monarchy only, and forgetting the 1000-year old Hungarian Kingdom? Ok.

Every rime I listen to to this guy I am awed by the ignorat diligence. No little states in Europe do not want to be treated as second class. That's why there is a class action suit by much of the eastern states against the western states for having to standards of goods.( guess where the bad stuff is going) Having an independent voice and thought is not a sign of "Napolitano complex" it is part of being responsible and sovereign state.

You really need to put that pause in between the Peter Files....

As for Austria: real reasons are not so much historical but economic and political. Major Austrian companies especially banks have heavily invested in CEE and EE since the end of the SU and YU and are somewhat concerned that their investments might go down the drain, for some banks that could even be an existential threat, think of Raiffeisen International, and for others it would if the conflict extended to the Balkans, e. g. Serbia; Austrian industries HEAVILY depend on gas and oil, still sourced from Russia via other countries; some parties such as the Freedom Party and the Social Democrats have been forging close ties with Russia over the past decades and find it difficult to divorce themselves now especially bc they are said to have received a certain kind of assistance ;-) bc Austria never was part of the Eastern Bloc, there are no negative memories of Soviet oppression and even the Communist party has recently made a comeback here with some of their members being openly supportive of Russia; retired politicians especially among the Social Democrats have been invited on the boards of Gazprom and other infrastructure companies in Russia and certainly not for their expertise, Hunter B. comes to mind, and made tons of money; then there are reasons in domestic politics as our 'neutrality' is, though completely anachronistic, a major election argument bc people don't have a grasp of what warefare in the 21st century really means, and that this type of neutrality will be no help when it comes to sabotage, cyber warefare and espionage of which there were some cases only recently where spies were found in the security services; HOWEVER, it has to be said that constant money flows have been approved by the Austrian parliament to provide Ukraine with humanitarian assistance and thousands of Ukrainian refugees were taken in, and they have been provided with shelter, access to language courses, schools for their kids, and - most importantly - to the labour market so the impression that Austria has let down Ukraine is not true but we would rather see it as the old Austrian tradition of wiggling through a difficult geopolitical situation in order to come out with a lot of benefits at the other end once reconstruction starts. Providing assistance to other European countries in need has been somewhat of a tradition, starting with the 90s and the Yugoslav wars, without getting too involved militarily unless it is a UN or EU mandate.

The language laws that the Ukrainians introduced which the Russian ultranationalists dreaded also affected the Hungarian nationals living in Ukraine.

As a Hungarian and history loving guy, I would say this video is a nonsense. There are some truth in the mentioned things, but it has not much to do about these countries’ Ukraine policy. Not to mention the Austro-Hungarian empire, which lasted less than 60 years… Nonsense.

I'm from Transilvania. A very small percentage of the population is still Hungarian. All the German speakers have left. Yes, Hungary still keeps some traditions alive but that ship has sailed.

As a Romanian ethnic born and raised in Transylvania I have to state that, while Transylvania has a multi-ethnic history, about 80 % of the current population of the region is ethnically Romanian. Hungarian leaders tried to have in the last decades a sort of cultural policy towards Transylvania and especially towards the Hungarian minority in Transylvania, but this is becoming problematic for them lately as funds from Budapest are withering, and as the Hungarian minority in Romania has all the rights granted except teritorial autonomy. Also, especially in the last few years, Romania surpassed Hungary economically if you watch the european purchasing power index. Another aspect of the matter is that nazis during WWII and Soviet and Russian dictators afterwards tried to play Hungary vs Romania by presenting Transylvania as a sort of prize - the old divide and rule stuff. Some leaders in Budapest seem to be still sensitive to this discourse and use it as a tool for internal reasons.

Austrian Student here 1) 3:45 we are still quite special today given our relatively high wealth, degree of democracy/education and also our culture. Vienna is still an important cultural hub and hosts a lot of international organisations (UNO e.g.) 2) 4:36 nothing resonates my ass. even back than, we used to not get along another with lots of revolutions, protests and independence movements going on at the end of the empire --> the reason it fell ultimately 3) I JUST CAN'T BELIEVE that the neutrality of Austria isn't mentioned. It literally was the condition from the Soviet Union that Austria stays neutral to gain it's independence from it so stupid question to ask why Austria doesn't participate that much in sanctions etc... imo.

Hello, this is a Hungarian opinion. In Hungary, nobody is interested in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy because it was an exploitative foreign power for the Hungarians. Hungarians simply want peace and wish that foreign exploitative powers, like your country, would withdraw their bloody claws. We want peace because we have already lost two wars that we were forced into against our will. Learning from the mistakes of the past, we will stay out of a third one at any cost. We particularly refuse to give up our future and our sons for foreign material interests.

Hungarian here. There are parts of Transylvania (Szekelyfold especially) which have an ethnically Hungarian majority, but it's just wrong to say that Transylvania is ethnically Hungarian. It would have been wrong even 100 years ago.

Putin allegedly offered a similar deal (Ukrainian territory) to Poland in 2008 or so and has been more or less told to go to hell.

Democracy means you are allowed to disagree however ultimately you have to concede to the majority

I have seen in Hungary a map which showed all of the "lost" Hungarian territories. In every one of it's neighbours.

As a Hungarian, my feeling is that Orbán (Hungarian Prime Minister) getting some economical gains from his Russian friends. MOL is having huge profits from selling Russian gas, etc. We will never know how much he was getting to his Swiss bank accounts.

You sort of left out that Austria was made a "rump state" of its former self after WWI, and after being annexed by Germany during WWII it was forced to remain unaligned by the former Allies. As a result, Austria isn't a NATO member. Expecting more now when it's convenient is a bit of a stretch.

It is much easier. Hungary and Slovakia have borders with Ukraine, and they dont want to get into the war. The danger is much nearer and bigger than for US citizens. Austria is neutral. All of them have probably no strong army and are no real enemies with Russia. All these old history facts are gone. Forcing people and countries into war who dont want that is dictatorship. Italy also does not want to be part of the war. The farther away, the more the people love this war. These "bad" countries also do a lot for ukrainian refugees, the state structures are heavily loaded.

Not sure I agree that Slovaks want to renew their "glory" of Austrian Hungarian empire where they were oppressed and had no recognition as a nation. Isn't that funny that countries that are closest to Ukraine show the least support? Think about it. Maybe they really know what is happening in there?

It is not true that Transilvania is full of ethnic Hungarians. We are @ 80% ethnically Romanian. The people who live in Transilvania and the other smaller provinces that used to be part of the Hungarian part of the AustroHungarian Empire (Banat, Crisana, Maramureș) are roughly 80% Ethnicality Romanian (I am one of them), Hungarians are probably @15% while the rest are Rroma, Ukrainian or German. Yes there were surveys @1900 that claimed 50% Hungarians, but that was only on paper due to forced Maghiarisation policies (i.e. my family was counted as Hungarian Szekely, even though they did not speak the language and were Romanian Orthodox) and was even contradicted by the ethnic maps at the time made by Germans for example.

As an Austrian, I cannot speak about Hungary or Slovakia, but here in Austria, Ukraine is not ignored at all. Austria is clearly on Ukraine's side in this conflict and we have taken in thousands of Ukrainian war refugees. Since we are a military-neutral state, we are forbidden from providing military support to Ukraine. But we help in a humanitarian way by providing food, medicine, money and other non-military goods.

As an Austrian i recoomend Mr. Zeihan to take a lesson in history and not tell strange conspiracy stories to understand that the todays position of these countries towards Ukraine has total different reasons and for shure the pannonian plain is by far not the most important one.

Slovakia, Hungary, and Austria coming to their senses, as small countries, we always have to adapt. What I think these governments are trying to do is to avoid becoming targets for Russian missiles and trying to negotiate peace. It is very hard as NATO presence has a great influence on politics (military boot on the neck), and it is almost impossible to resist general narrative design by PEntagon and agencies and be independent. By the way, you can take Peter Zeihan as a compass, everything that he says will happen exactly the other way around. It has been proven in time, just check it his pasts podcasts and videos. If you don't go along with the narrative you will be destroyed (government overthrow, cuedata's, reputation destructions, Stopping EU funds, sanctions....etc.) similar to what is happening to Hungary and certain extent to Slovakia. Unlike Hungary, Slovakia has not passed a law to register foreign NGO (political tools of Europe's and US globalists)

I think the issue is a bit simpler, especially when it comes to Hungary. Many Hungarians don't trust the west and western institutions enough. You could argue that the loss of two world wars and a soviet occupation afterwards, combined with how many Hungarians could not capitalize on the benefits of moving away from the Soviet model in 1989, lead them to feel abandoned. The young Hungarians, who benefited from the western model are pro EU and pro Ukraine, but they either live in the capital or moved to other countries in the west. That leaves the rest of Hungary in a rough shape, where its population just doesn't feel like supporting whatever the west wants to do, because they don't trust them. And Orban is capitalizing on this, by centralizing his power and by signing a bunch of deals with authoritarians from the east.

5:28 "The people who live in Transylvania are Romanian citizens and Ethnic hungarian ethnic nationals". Come on, Peter, you are a very smart guy, pay attention to this stuff, wars have been fought for lesser things. There are 6.1% Hungarians living in Romania and 15-20% living in Transylvania.

You say the Austrians are being a pain in the ass for wanting to keep the lights on?

Hi Peter, I'm a subscriber from the city with the largest Hungarian population in Transilvania, Târgu Mureș. I must correct you here. Hungarians represent a minority in Transilvania, and they were a minority in all the regions outside of current Hungary. One thing I always ask the nostalgic Hungarians waving the 'great hungary' map is why would you wish for a country where you were a minority? Please check the demographic map of great Hungary and consider that was their peak.. DNA ancestry results of Hungarians from both Transilvania and Hungary is a big shock for them, they have major romanian admixture.

Sometimes I think Peter suffers from the urge to connect dots that aren't actually there

Iˋm from Austria: while it is correct, that hungary always and Slovakia recently is not supporting sanctions against Russia, this is not the case with Austrian Government: it is right, that Austria is depending to 90% of Russian gas, but on the other hand is supporting all economic sanctions against the agressor Russia! Please quote sources of your claim. Thanks a lot!

he says they are being pains in asses. LOL. They are actually being anti war and smart. This guy is completely delusional.

it is certainly true Austria, Slovakia and Hungary were a major part of the former Habsburg Empire, but this video misses an important point: contrary to Slovakia and Hungary, Austria was never part of the former Warsaw Pact and despite importing natural gas, Austria never had a close relationship to Russia. (Most families lost relatives in WWI and WWII). When Austria and the occupying powers signed the State Treaty in 1955, perpetual neutrality was an important point that was later included in the Austrian constitution. Essentially, this means neutrality in military conflicts. I also believe the 40 years of separation caused from the iron curtain has more impacts on the relationship of this countries and to Russia, than the common history in the former Empire. Right now changing the constitution to abandon neutrality would not get a qualified majority in Austria. It might be questionable, but people are still in favor of neutrality. Hungary and President Orban are outsiders in the EU for a variety of reasons. The relationship with Russia is one of them. To a certain degree parts of the Balkan are still allies of Russia. Historically Serbia - WWI started, when the Habsburg Empire declared war to Serbia, because of the assassination of crown prince Rudolf and Russia joined Serbia and also because of the NATO intervention in the balkan war of the 90s. It might even have religious reason, because both - Russia and Serbia - are orthodox christians. in fact one thing is true: Europe is a very heterogeneous continent with many ethnic and religious groups, thousands years of history with wars and various alliances and I doubt, we will see the United States of Europe anytime soon, which is not a geopolitical advantage in the near future.

I fear you are confusing the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy with the Kingdom of Hungary at times. Orbán is “nostalgic” for the latter, and obviously not the former.

As an Austrian, I must say that it is strange that you do not mention Switzerland which is also a neutral country even since 1815. There have been problems with ammunition delivery for the 35mm Örlikon/Rheinmetall air defense guns as they could not be delivered from Switzerland to Ukraine. Austria promised in 1955 by handshake to maintain neutrality similar to Switzerland in order to get the state treaty with the withdrawal of Allied occupation on May 15, 1955. So Austria does not even export ammunition for Glock pistols to Ukraine. It is correct that Austria was the first country outside the Warsaw Block to get natural gas from the USSR in 1969, and all thermal power stations are fired with natural gas as well as many flats and industrial plants, like metal factories and the paper industry. For me, that looks like another statement by an 'underinformed' American.

A very superficial analysis. 1.Transylvania is just 6% ethnic Hungarians, the guy just presenting it as if it is Hungarian majority. 2. There is just a very small part of the former Hungarian kingdom that is now part of Ukraine and claiming past territories nowadays is a very serious subject, now Peter is making it like this is the one of the most important concerns and interests of Hungary regarding their stance on Russia Ukraine war. Typical american way of looking at things, full of superficiality and ignorance unfortunately. And there are a lot of europeans who are listenings to this people who have a lot of words in their pocket and they are americans.🤦‍♂️

I’m a Hungarian citizen and I fully support Ukraine. I hate the russophile policy of the Hungarian government and especially Viktor Orban.🤮

Peter, small correction here. The ethnic composition of Transylvania is: Ethnic Hungarians (Magyars): Approximately 18.9% of the population. Ethnic Romanians: Approximately 70% of the population.

Totally wrong. While it would be amazing to reconstruct the Kingdom of Hungary from a nationalist sense, they are not sitting the War out bc of this reason. Orban gave a recent interview where he clearly stated that Russia has crushed Hungary in 1848, 1945, and 1956. In 1945, they didn't want to be involved in WW2, but felt that they had no choice bc the Nazis were 60 miles away. Their position today is that they aren't going to War bc US hawks did a coup in 2014 to bait Russia into an existential war over their naval base in Sevestapol; they played that game already and lost everything

Austria is officially NEUTRAL, and that is not "code" for NATO's lackey! It means they *mind their own business* and are NOT stupid enough to provoke Moscow!

I hope your geopolitical analysis on other topics are more accurate than this segment. Honestly, what can we expect from an American looking into small countries in central Europe.

"The people living in Transylvania are romanian citizens but ethnic hungarian." No, not really. In 2011 the ethnicity of the people inhabiting Transylvania was: romanians 70%, hungarians 18%, gypsies 4%. So no, the population argument does not stand. Not that it matters to Orban, he wants Transylvania back all the same. How he's planning on governing after adding 4.7 mil romanians to a population around 10 mil hungarians is a mistery to me.

In Vienna, prominently located on the Ringstrasse at Schwartzenbergplatz and infamously blocking the view to the lovely gardens of the Palais Belvedere, is an imposing, brooding, Stalinesque monument to Soviet soldiers. One of the conditions that the Russians demanded before leaving Austria in 1955 was that the monument would remain untouched. It serves as a stark reminder of what the Russians are capable of, and of Austria's powerlessness to stop them. That, plus the fact that prior to the invasion of Ukraine Austria received 100% of its natural gas from Russia, explains why the Austrians have been deliberate in dealing with the invasion. Based on my experience living in Vienna for 2.5 years in the 70s and 80s there is no love lost between the Viennese and the Russians, whose soldiers at least if not the rest of the country they consider to be boorish drunken thugs.

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"In Transylvania are Romanian citizens but Hungarian ethnic nationals" - WRONG. The ethnic majority in Transylvania is predominantly Romanian, comprising 80% of the population.

The ethnic magyars only account for about 15 to 20% of the Transylvania's population.

Last year orbán was seen on a football game wearing a scarf depicting pre World War I borders of Hungary. He and his foreign minister constantly talk of people of Hungarian ethnicity living in different counties as their citizens they must protect. Orbán is a sad man living in 17th century with lilliputin

Unfortunately only ~20% of Transylvania is Hungarian today. There was a very 'successful' ethnic cleansing of Germans, Jews and Hungarians by the Romanian state during communism. Forced assimilation, forced relocation, etc.

As a European, please stop conflating lack of support for what is mainly a US proxy war with Russia with lack of solidarity for Ukraine.

so thankful hungary gave asylum to those Ukrainian soldiers... i would not call that "ignoring" tho

In case of AUSTRIA it is more the dependence on russian GAS and Contracts we cannot get out of easily. Besides that austrian banks are still in Russia, like Raiffeisen, and cannot get out so easily without suffering huge losses. Nobody really thinks in terms of acquiring lands of the old empire, because land is not worth much these days. Plus, there is the neutrality issue in Austria, that kinda forces us to be extra careful when thinking about giving anybody assistance in War. So the problems are really contract-based or constitution-based, and not so much historically-based.

First, austria should be neutral, but it actually broke its declararion. We also aided more than 100 million+ € There are enough refugees now, they get support , the same amoint as someone from austria, even as they never paid a single € in taxes

Hi! I am from Slovakia and the reason Slovaks are against supporting Ukraine is the belief that if we stick our heads in the sand deep enough, the greater conflict will pass by us without any damage. This is engraved into our psyche by history. We are a small nation on the geographic crossroads of Eastern Europe - in the last 1100 years we´ve been invaded by Avars, Hungarians, Mongols, Turks, French, (taken over by the Czech, in the good sense of the word), Hungarians again, Germans, Russians and Russians again. The grand survival strategy for us is siding with the winning side and until it is clear which is which, we pretend to stay out and also being ready to switch sides at any moment.

I am a Romanian from Romania, I live in Transilvania ( Romania ) and was born in Transylvania ( Romania ). Zeihain is very very wrong here. People who are living in Transylvania are: YES, Romanian citizens, but 80% are genuinely Romanian ethnics, and Yes again ( this is where Zeihan is right ) 20% are genuinely Hungarian ethnics. And this procentual statistic was the same 100 + years ago as well. Based on this, I suggest Zeihain to read about Wilsonian Principles ( US President ) which gave the Right to Self-Determination of People... Just a little history Zeihan ... No hard feelings

That statement about people living in Transilvania being of Hungarian ethnicity is wrong. There are many ethnic groups among which the Hungarian is probably the most significant one, but the main population in Transilvania has always been Romanian. I know, I live there...

Looking at the comments below this isn't a bad summary in 6 minutes at all. I hear the bitterness of fellow Hungarians from both sides of the current border, the loss of the country after the 1st ww is unimaginable, 70% of its territory 50% of the population, it was a crime against a nation. This is just not something can be forgiven and forgotten...Thanks for the vlog

As someone from Slovakia: our current PM (who is the de facto leader, president is just a representative function with limited power) is not pro-Russian. He is merely an opportunist who will say anything that will get him votes to get to power (or stay in it). Now he panders to the pro-Russian idiots, because that got him re-elected. Case in point: a few months ago, there was a meeting of Slovak and Ukrainian governments in Michalovce about ccooperation. He told to the Ukrainians that all that he says publicly is only "for the domestic audience". Not to mention despite his claims ("not a single bullet to the Ukraine"), he wasn't against the EU initiative, disn't try to block it or anything. Even Putin said that our help to Ukraine was inconsequential, so Fico didn't win any favors there with his rethoric. And Slovak oeople have recently raised over 3M€ for drones and other stuff for Ukraine, so we as a nation aren't against the Ukrainians.

Transylvania’s mostly Romanian with a Hungarian minority. He made it sound like it’s all Hungarian.

Is there any reason to think that the rank speculation about historical empire and geography as destiny has anything to do with this? Seems like that was totally irrelevant and everything is explained in a totally prosaic and country specific fashion. Putin might have bought off Hungry. Austria (in addition to it's historical nuetrality and desire to straddle east/west) and Slovokia have straightforward economic concerns that make complete disassociation from Russia difficult. Just because you know alot of history doesn't mean it's the explanation.

Austria is bound to neutrality by the 1955 Austrian State Treaty and its constitution, which prohibits entry into military alliances and the establishment of foreign military bases on Austrian territory.

I an Austrian with Hungarian father. Except some minority (like in other countries) We are all pro Ukraine and deny any right of Russia to attack their neighbours. However, we are all hugely dependent on Russian gas and do not have access to alternatives like even Germany has. Austria is on top by its constitution bound to neutrality and is not part of Nato. Besides Poland we carry the highest burden in taking on an enormous amount of of Ukrainian and Russian refugees in proportion to our population size. Peter is a great analyst, however no one can deep dive in the complexity of relationships and dependency with every region, an he covers more or less the whole world….. there are losses and high levels sometimes loose the relevant details…

He has no clue about Austria. Austria has never been more in line with European defense policy before than after the invasion. They cannot join NATO but after the fall of Russia they might regain their sovereignty to do that and overcome the Staatsvertrag contraints.

As a transylvanian of mixed ancestry: romanian ethnics make up over 80% of Transylvania's population. This is the very reason why Transylvania and Romania united after ww1. Only aprox. 15% of transylvanians are hungarian ethnics. I mean, this is wikipedia level of research... you can do better Peter.

CORRECTION: According to the results of the 2011 census, the total population of Transylvania was 6,789,250 inhabitants and the ethnic groups were: Romanians - 70.62%, Hungarians - 17.92%, Roma - 3.99%, Ukrainians - 0.63%, Germans (mostly Transylvanian Saxons and Banat Swabians, but also Zipsers, Sathmar Swabians, or Landlers) - 0.49%, other - 0.77%. Some 378,298 inhabitants (5.58%) have not declared their ethnicity. Information easily found on Wikipedia.

Ever considered, that Austria is neutral? Maybe we are not that much into war mongering any more and see the bigger picture?

As a Slovak I'd add first hand observations from my country: - Very strong influence of Russian propaganda through various channels (that supported current government and helped them on their way to power) - Heritage of politics of Hungarian monarchy (tribalism over institutions) & Socialism (no institutions other than strong centralized rule) - Level of urbanism - lot of small villages that are sociologically prone to conservatism (overgeneralization here) that is represented by the parties in power

Mrs Zeihan, the total amount of Hungarians in the entire Romania is about 1 mil, representing about 6% of the population. Out of 40+ districts that Romania is split in, 2 of them are considered Hungarian majority. From that, to say that majority of the Romanian population is Hungarian, even if you consider only Transylvania (and that's not where the majority of the population lives), it's a HUGE stretch. In short, Hungarians in Romania are 1 mil out of 19mil other ethnicities, that is NOT Majority as you have stated in this video.

Austria shouldn't really be mentioned with the other 2 here, yes, they are using their neutrality as an excuse for their lukewarm stance (Raiffeisen is still operating in Russia and our dependency on Russian gas is even higher than before the start of the conflict). Anyway, our Government is a lot more Pro-Ukranian than these of Slovakia and especially Hungary, not even in the same league, and we also didn't veto any EU sanctions. We obviously don't deliver any weapons (not that we would have any of relevance) due to the neutral status, but other than that the official stance is clearly in favor of Ukraine unlike the other 2.

I think the answer is much simpler. Neither Hungarian nor Austrian Politicians currently in charge have an spine or guts. They benefit from their position within Europe, not being under threat from russia, receiving large chunks of money from the EU while also try to benefit from cheap gas from russia. This opportunistic, self destructing behavior makes me feel ashamed. Greetings from Vienna

The question should be: Why would any country that is so close to Russia want to antagonize Russia? Why would any state want to be Ukraine 2.0? Fighting to the last man, only to loose in the end? No thanks.

Let me put this way: they have chocked on money. Simple as that. Scholarships for politicians. The smaller country, the easier to find politicians willing to take scholarships.

As someone who lives in former Austria-Hungary for all my life I can confidently say this is very far from what is actually happening in here.

Fun fact: there are approximately 2 times as many Hungarians living in Serbia as in the Ukraine, mainly in the Vojvodina region, which was once also part of the Hungarian Kingdom and the Austro-Hungarian Empire before 1920. Yet, Hungary and Serbia, Orban and Vucic are currently like BFFs. Is there any comparative study on the rights of the Hungarian minorities in Serbia vs in Ukraine?

You made a mistake on Transylvania. Yes, they are Romanian citizens but the large majority are Romanian ethnics, not Hungarian. Ethnic groups in Transylvania: 76.42% Romanians 17.36% Hungarians 4.53% Roma 1.69% others

The most important russian energy dependence of Hungary is not gas or oil. You can transport gas or oil from other sources, there is now a network of pipelines. It is NUCLEAR. Half of electricity in Hungary is produced in a single nuclear plant, using russian fuel. It has fuel reserves only for a single year. Alternative fuel sources would be possible but it takes a few years and orban sabotaged to have that.

The 'ask Peter files'? Said with an American accent sounds like a conversation with a sex offender.

As an Austrian, I can say that our past ambitions are long past and have nothing to do with the Austrian politics of today. Instead, we Austrians have a weird obsession with the concept of neutrality. Generations of politicians have reinforced that Austria should never take up arms again, given our historical responsibility. While being between East and West during the Cold War, this was an excellent strategy and served us well. After the fall of the wall, the security situation changed drastically, but Austrians were not able to change; this belief in neutrality was too deeply entrenched. I personally feel ashamed of the Austrian government's inaction. We are still not independent of Russian gas. Big Austrian banks like Raiffeisen International still operate within Russia more than two years after the war escalated. That said, most Austrians support Ukraine, and the reason we are not further along in cutting ties with Russia is mostly incompetence. So, I don't think the situation can be compared to the situation in Hungary, where Orban actively supports Russia.

Should rename your channel to "Drinking with friends on geopolitics". Pretty shallow content about what was Austro-Hungarian Empire and the ethnical composition of the disolved empire provinces.

Austria is also a neutral nation owing to WW2, and that can't be left out of this.

Because there are Hungarians living in Ukraine, they are drafted into this war. Some of them lost their life already. That is why Hungary want both sides to find a peaceful solution.

A lot of Peter's videos are like those ASMR Reiki ones, where there's a lot of nonsense being said but you keep watching because of the calming voice of the woo-woo practitioner. Bless him! 😊

Ooof.. Swing and miss on Transylvania in this one going by the comments Peter. Someone's been giving you bad info.

Austra is a neutral country by constitution and they allready bend their neutrality a lot by participating in the sanctions.

Firstly, Austria does not ignore Ukraine. We just do not join warmongering. Staying neutral does not mean "ignoring". It means, that you cultivate good relationships with everybody. Secondly, Austria simply seems to be smarter than expected. It will be beneficial to make friends with the Global South-East and with the Global North-West. We will enjoy the best of both regions. Hopefully.

Slovakia sent all of their air defence and jets. In both cases was first country to do this, which played a significant role in the willingness of other countries to behave in the same way.

It’s not conspiracy, Russia showed a map of fragmented Ukraine between poland, hungary and Russia maybe one or two months ago

"Money laundering" not even mentioned once... not suspect at all.

Not all Romanian citizens in Transilvania are Hungarian ethnics. But there was a time under the Austro-Hungarian Empire when, in order to proof that the citizens were Hungarians, regular simple people were forced to change their names. Whatever bullying happened under this empire is well documented. And it is not for nothing that the struggle to come out from under the oppression eventually took place at the end of the 1st World War. And this fight was there ever since the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

You fail to mention that Hungary does not get anymore its gas through Ukraine but actually through TurkStream via Turkey, Bulgaria and Serbia.

Transilvania is not ethnic hungarian, but there is a part in Transilvania called Sekler Land wich is inhabitated by seklers, they are not exactly hungarians but they are close enought. Also few hungarians live in bigger cities in Transilvania. There was an ethnic corridor before the second world war in northern Transilvania, but it not exists anymore, so there are a couple hundred kilometeres (or miles) between mainland Hungary and Sekler Land inhabitated by romanians. Also don't forget the current hungarian political elite was involved in the communist regime, we don't know how much cause the documents are still classified, and neither side did anithing to make them public during te last 35 years. Also look up the russian hacker breach happened in 2022 in hungary (The story is surfacing now, and it's looks very stinky).

Please check your facts with Transylvania, 75% of people there are Romanians and 25% are Hungarians mostly concentrated in three counties, Covasna, Harghita and Mures. Yeah, it’s a very important minority but in any democratic system they have no chance to have Transylvania.

Although the current Slovak government does not support Ukraine, the people of Slovakia certainly do. A crowdfunding campaign launched in April 2024 to buy artillery shells for Ukraine exceeded its target of €1m (£850,000), less than 48 hours after it was launched. The campaign is a response to the Slovak cabinet's refusal to join an initiative by the Czech government to buy up hundreds of thousands of shells for the Ukrainian armed forces. The crowdfunding campaign has provided an outlet for those Slovaks who do not agree with Mr Fico. Three days after the campaign began more than 32,000 people had donated more than €2m. The money will go directly to the Czech government's initiative. "We're really pleasantly surprised at the huge force it's awoken," said Zuzana Izsakova from the "Peace to Ukraine" initiative, which is running the effort in conjunction with the Czech-based Endowment Fund for Ukraine. "It's a sign of the resistance of Slovak society against the government and the foreign policy of Robert Fico." The campaign, running under the slogan "If The Government Won't - We Will", would continue even now it had met its target, she said.

How is Slovakia IGNORING UKRAINE? Slovakia gave Ukraine ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING it had. All fighter jets, all tanks, all IFVs alld medium to long range air defense and most of its ammunition stocks.

5:40 wtf??? like really?? u on something??? try not to coin stuff u only think you know… there are some hu ethnics in some parts (cities) of “transilvania” but the way u throw it sounds like there’s a majority or something… careful there. that’s disappointing..

Peter, any thoughts on South Korea supposedly finding 14 billion barrels of oil and gas last week? Reuters: "South Korea's Yoon says vast amount of oil, gas reserve possible off east coast"

Looool. Transilvania is ethnically Romanian 76.42% and 17.36% Hungarian. There is the Harghita and Covasna counties that are hungarian majority, but they are smack bang in the middle of the country. Saying that Transylvania is ethnically Hungarian is like saying Massachusetts is ethnically Hispanic just because they have 13% Hispanic population.

Peter Zion seriously went the ENTIRE video without mentioning the assassination attempt on Slovakia's PM Fico