Kiev just claimed that Hungary is conspiring with Russia to occupy parts of its territory that were historically populated by its co-ethnics but severed from their titular state after the two World Wars. Budapest, for its part, shot back by claiming that it’s being unfairly targeted by the West simply because it’s “being frank about the fact that we’re not prepared to give up the security of our country’s energy supply.” This latest Hungarian-Ukrainian spat follows newly re-elected Prime Minister Orban singling out Ukrainian President Zelensky alongside Soros, Brussels, and the international mainstream media as one of his country’s opponents who wanted to see him lose last month’s vote. Their bad blood is entirely due to Budapest refusing to allow the transit of weapons to Kiev and to sanction Moscow’s energy.

Kiev is reacting in the defensive way that it is through its claims about Hungarian revanchism precisely because it’s geopolitically self-conscious of the fact that Ukraine’s contemporary borders were artificially created by Moscow. Lenin’s unnatural mini-empire is crumbling before the world’s eyes after Crimea democratically reunified with Russia in 2014, the Donbass Republics split from Ukraine soon thereafter, and the Russian Armed Forces are now protecting several million people in this country’s former Eastern and Southern regions who might follow their peers’ precedent by soon holding their own independence referendums. Desperately trying to get ahead of the curve and preempt their state’s further disintegration, Kiev apparently thought it wise to accuse Hungary of revanchism at this time.

To be sure, it’s indeed possible that Budapest might seriously consider moving troops into the borderland regions of Ukraine’s Zakarpattia Region to protect ethnic Hungarians in the event that this neighboring country collapses even more than it already has. That would also be the morally right thing to do and fully consistent with Orban’s support of the Hungarian diaspora that was artificially amputated from their historic homeland for purely political reasons connected to the end of both World Wars. It’s therefore not entirely a conspiracy theory for Kiev to draw attention to this scenario, but its intentions aren’t sincere since it’s only doing so as part of the US-led West’s infowar against Orban for refusing to sacrifice his country’s objective national interests just to please its partners.

Ukraine is crumbling and nobody knows how far its dissolution will go. Not only might some of its former regions split off as their own self-proclaimed countries, but parts within some of them such as the historically Hungarian-populated borderlands of Zakarpattia Region might be (re-)united with their titular neighboring nation. This potentially multidimensional collapse of Ukraine could also see Poland occupying and annexing its Western regions that were under the control of the interwar Second Polish Republic exactly as Russian spy chief Naryshkin warned last week. Instead of talking about Poland’s reported plot, however, Kiev found it more “politically convenient” to focus exclusively on Hungary’s in order to virtue signal support for its US patron’s infowar against Orban.