“The task is to keep the Russian tanks behind the Carpathian mountains and out o

—“The task is to keep the Russian tanks behind the Carpathian mountains and out of the Hungarian plain. The Russian takeover of the Eastern Ukraine eliminates its influence in the Western Ukraine. The Russians know this and by annexing the East, they admit defeat and permanently give up the Hungarian plains and with it the main invasion route into Central Europe.”—Klaus Kostenbauer