There are some alarming similarities between now and the era when preparations were being made for the first and second world wars, Orbán said. „What’s happening today in Brussels and Washington, or currently more in Brussels than in Washington, is setting the mood for an eventual military conflict, which we might as well describe as preparing Europe’s entry to war,” he said. At the same time, Orbán said there was a need for an army because that in itself would not result in war. Orbán said Hungary had lacked defence capabilities for a long time and they were still not sufficient, but progress was being made in strengthening the army. He said that the answer to the question whether Russia would stop after defeating Ukraine was that the Russian army was fighting a serious and difficult war with Ukrainians and it was still unable to defeat them. NATO’s military capabilities are incomparably greater than Russia’s, Orbán said, adding that he did „not consider the assumption logical that Russia, which cannot even defeat Ukraine, would all of a sudden come and swallow the entire Western world”.