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Ukraine will establish 10 weapons export hubs across Europe this year, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced. This would effectively mean that Ukraine’s wartime rear area is being relocated to Europe. Absurd.

The Ukrainian president also said that the production of Ukrainian drones will soon begin in Germany. In other words, despite Europe being in an economic crisis, countries are lining up to retool their economies toward the arms industry — this is already the antechamber to the continent being dragged into an actual war. All around us, weapons factories and weapons distribution centers would be set up, all of this supported by Brussels so that they can line their pockets — regardless of how many human lives it costs.

We are not willing to provide weapons, money, or soldiers to Ukraine! While Magyar Péter would comply with Brussels’ demands, Orbán Viktor is capable of saying no to them.
Fidesz is the safe choice!

A weapons hub coming here? Certainly not. Honestly, I’m not happy at all about Zelenskyy saying that he will open weapons export centers at 10 locations across Europe, which means that Zelenskyy practically wants to turn the European continent into a kind of wartime rear area. You know, this is co-production and export that we talked about. It concerns the weapons that we can afford to sell in order to generate additional money for our domestic production of scarce items that we don’t have enough funding for.

In itself, it is extremely harmful that for many people this war represents an opportunity for profiteering, and it is precisely this hunger for money that unfortunately fuels the war machine. We will resist with all our strength any attempt to drag Hungary into this war, but I believe that if people come to power who constantly want to please Brussels and are unable to resist pressure from Brussels, this would not be so clear-cut. That is why it is important to vote for Fidesz — because only Fidesz is capable of resisting Brussels.

🔴 1️⃣ “Zelensky is opening weapons hubs” → apocalyptic reframing

Technique: threat inflation + slippery slope

From the claim:

“10 weapons export centers in Europe”

it immediately turns into:

“Europe is becoming a wartime rear base”

📌 The trick:

• export logistics ≠ military battlefield
• industrial cooperation ≠ continent-wide war
• no legal, military, or NATO escalation steps are specified

👉 This is not a conclusion, but the manufacture of an alarmist image.

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🔴 2️⃣ “Economic crisis → arms industry → world war”

Technique: false causality + fear stacking

Within a single sentence, it links:

• economic crisis
• arms production
• Europe being dragged into war

📌 What’s missing:

• timelines
• decision-makers
• legal mechanisms
• concrete commitments by specific countries

👉 The brain doesn’t analyze — it panics.

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🔴 3️⃣ “Brussels filling its pockets” – classic scapegoating

Technique: villain framing + moral simplification

“Brussels supports this to line their pockets”

📌 What this does:

• turns an impersonal institution into a villain
• assigns motives without evidence
• shifts a complex geopolitical issue into a moral blame frame

👉 No data — only assumed intent.

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🔴 4️⃣ “We give no weapons, money, or soldiers” – false exclusivity

Technique: savior framing + false dilemma

The narrative:

• ❌ everyone else is pro-war
• ✅ only Orbán Viktor can say no
• ❌ anyone who disagrees is obedient to Brussels

👉 This is identity-based electoral coercion, not policy debate.

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🔴 5️⃣ Péter Magyar as a symbol of “obedience”

Technique: proxy attack + guilt by association

“Péter Magyar would obey Brussels”

📌 The problem:

• no quotation
• no reference to a policy platform
• no concrete decision cited

👉 A person is reduced to a symbol, simply to manufacture an “enemy.”

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🔴 6️⃣ The English quote – inserted without context

Technique: selective quotation + authority laundering

The English passage does not refute or prove anything — it merely:

• “sounds credible”
• “creates an international atmosphere”

👉 The audience doesn’t understand it, but believes it anyway.

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🔴 7️⃣ “Many are profiteering from the war” – emotional redirection

Technique: moral outrage hijacking

This is partly true, but here it serves to:

📌

• shift all causal analysis onto a moral plane
• shut down substantive policy discussion

👉 If you ask questions → you are labeled “pro-war.”

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🔴 8️⃣ The ending: “Only Fidesz” – classic election propaganda

Technique: electoral closure

The text does not end with analysis, but with:

“That’s why it’s important to vote for Fidesz”

👉 The entire narrative does not inform — it produces votes.

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🎯 SUMMARY — IN ONE SENTENCE

This text is not about Ukraine, not about the arms industry, and not about Europe, but about using fear, false causal chains, and scapegoating to shut down thinking — and leave only one political ‘escape route’: Fidesz.

The leader of the European People’s Party, one of the most pro-war politicians, Manfred Weber, said he is glad he managed to convince Péter Magyar to support Ukraine. Otherwise, the Tisza Party could not even be a member of the People’s Party.
Whoever doesn’t march in step…

Hungarians want no part of this. We act according to the interests of the Hungarian people, not Brussels and Kyiv. We can say no to Brussels; Péter Magyar cannot.
They are too risky and unpredictable. That is why Fidesz is the safe choice.

Are you also pro-Ukraine, like the Tisza Party? Mr. Weber, who leads the People’s Party, made it perfectly clear that they only work with those who are pro-Ukraine. And you won’t believe who is in the People’s Party. Péter Magyar and his associates spend their days there.
The Tisza Party cannot wriggle out of this. This is yet another admission that we were right all along. They stand with Ukraine.

Hungarians, however, do not want a pro-Ukraine and pro-war government, but a pro-Hungarian and pro-peace one. That is why Fidesz is the only safe choice.

🔴 1️⃣ “Weber convinced Péter Magyar” – a claim without evidence

Technique: assertion without evidence + authority framing

“Manfred Weber said he is pleased that he convinced Péter Magyar to support Ukraine.”

❌ There is no:

• quotation
• video
• interview
• date
• source

📌 This is not a statement of fact, but a narrative.
It has a single purpose: to shut down thinking.

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🔴 2️⃣ “There’s no other way to be a member of the People’s Party” – false conditionality

Technique: false dilemma + gatekeeping

“Otherwise, Tisza could not be a member of the European People’s Party.”

📌 The suggestion:

• “if you’re there → you are pro-Ukraine”
• “there are no nuances, no debate, no room for maneuver”

❌ Reality:

• the European People’s Party is not a unified bloc
• it consists of dozens of parties with differing positions

👉 A forced imposition of a black-and-white worldview.

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🔴 3️⃣ “Those who don’t march in step…” – implied collective threat

Technique: implicit threat + conformity pressure

This half-sentence echoes a logic well known from the Kádár era.

📌 The message:

• “those who stand out get pushed out”
• “it’s safer to obey”

👉 This is not an argument, but psychological discipline.

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🔴 4️⃣ “Brussels and Kyiv vs. the Hungarian people” – false dichotomy

Technique: us-vs-them framing

“Not Brussels and Kyiv, but the interests of the Hungarian people.”

📌 The trick:

• as if Hungarians ≠ the EU
• as if foreign policy ≠ national interest

👉 This is an identity trap, not policy discussion.

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🔴 5️⃣ “We can say no, they can’t” – moral superiority narrative

Technique: moral superiority framing

“We can say no to Brussels, Péter Magyar cannot.”

❌ There is no:

• specific issue
• specific vote
• specific decision

📌 Only role assignment:

• we = strong
• they = weak

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🔴 6️⃣ “Too risky and unpredictable” – vague fear-mongering

Technique: vague threat framing

This is a favorite propaganda sentence type because it is:

• not falsifiable
• not verifiable
• not specific

📌 Effect on the audience:

“better not to take risks”

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🔴 7️⃣ “Are you also pro-Ukraine?” – collective stigmatization

Technique: guilt by association

This is no longer political debate, but a loyalty test.

📌 The logic:

• if you’re not with us → you’re against us
• if you question → you’re suspicious

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🔴 8️⃣ “Weber made it clear” – false certainty

Technique: fake clarity

“made it clear”

📌 A classic trick:

• as if a disputed issue were already settled
• as if no alternative interpretation existed

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🔴 9️⃣ “They cannot escape it” – trap narrative

Technique: inevitability framing

👉 Whatever the Tisza Party says or does becomes:

• “an admission”
• “evidence”
• “exposure”

📌 This is a rhetorical prison.

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🔴 🔟 “Hungarians are not pro-Ukraine” – appropriation of collective voice

Technique: false consensus

❌ There is no:

• survey
• data
• public debate

👉 The speaker appoints themselves as “the voice of Hungarians.”

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🔴 1️⃣1️⃣ “Therefore, only Fidesz” – closing command

Technique: cognitive closure

It always ends the same way:

“don’t think any further, the decision has already been made”

👉 This is not persuasion. This is control.

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🎯 SUMMARY – WHAT IS THE REAL GOAL?

Not Ukraine.
Not Weber.
Not Brussels.

📌 The goal is to:

• generate fear
• narrow identity
• close off alternatives
• enforce loyalty

This is not information.
It is psychological warfare.

A war does not only take its toll on those living on the front lines — everyone suffers from it. In Transcarpathia, it is not uncommon for people to spend more time without electricity — 16 to 18 hours — than with it. In such times, there is no heating, no lighting; people try to cope with generators to maintain what is natural for us: a normal life. I spoke for a few minutes with István Dobsa during a power outage. If anyone still doubts that the only path forward is the path of peace, they should watch this video.

And now we will call István Dobsa, who is the president of the Youth Council of the Transcarpathian Hungarian Cultural Association, and ask how they are doing in Berehove.

Hello! Hi! Hello, hello! Good evening, Madam MP! How are you now? According to the news, the situation is even worse than it was back in December. In the larger cities, the situation is extremely difficult. There are even power outages lasting several days. We are also living with 16–18-hour power cuts. I was just speaking earlier with a dear acquaintance who called to say that things are now getting bad even for them, because their house is getting colder and colder. They are living together with a newborn baby, and this really puts people to the test.

What is the general mood like? How are you holding up? What are your everyday lives like? Lately, all kinds of terrible news have been circulating — even today I came across reports saying that if someone tries to help others in any way, they face immediate reprisals. With all these reports, I imagine daily life is far from rosy.

It is becoming increasingly difficult, because these symbolic internal batteries are running low. It would be very good to finally hear about — and experience — results that could lead us back, even slightly, toward normality. We pray, we hope, and we truly expect that peace efforts can succeed, and that the long-awaited and hoped-for peace may finally come for everyone.

I sincerely wish that we can talk about this as soon as possible. And I can promise you that from the mother country, we are here with you and behind you; we try to help in every way we can. But I believe the greatest help for you as well would be for this war to finally, truly, end as quickly as possible.

🔴 1️⃣ Real suffering → forcing a political conclusion

Technique: emotional hijacking + moral shortcut

Power outages in Transcarpathia, lack of heating, and the mention of a newborn are real human tragedies.
By themselves, these are not propaganda.

👉 Manipulation begins at the point where a single “correct” political conclusion is drawn from them:

“If anyone still doubts that the only path is the path of peace, they should watch this video!”

📌 This is not an argument, but emotional blackmail:

• if you empathize → you must agree
• if you question → you are insensitive

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🔴 2️⃣ “The only path” – shutting down thinking

Technique: false dilemma + cognitive closure

“the only path is the path of peace”

This is a rhetorical trap:

• “peace” is never defined
• no alternatives are allowed
• there is no debate, only moral judgment

📌 Message to the audience:

“If you don’t think this way, you support suffering.”

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🔴 3️⃣ Phone-in witness → emotional validation

Technique: testimonial framing + proximity illusion

Calling Dobsa István is not evidence, but emotional validation.

Important points:

• not expert analysis
• not verifiable data
• no comparison

📌 The phone call feels “spontaneous,” but it serves a narrative function:

“He is there → therefore what he says is the full reality.”

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🔴 4️⃣ Fear packaged and amplified

Technique: fear stacking + anecdotal amplification

Elements listed:

• 16–18-hour power outages
• unheated homes
• a newborn baby
• “retaliations,” “horrific news”
• “it’s getting harder and harder”

❌ Missing:

• dates
• sources
• verifiable reports
• comparison with other regions

📌 The goal is not to inform, but to emotionally overwhelm.

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🔴 5️⃣ Religious language → political legitimization

Technique: moral sanctification

“we pray, we ask, we hope”

This gives a sacred frame to a political position.
Anyone who questions it does not appear to “think differently,” but to be morally flawed.

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🔴 6️⃣ “We stand with you” – the motherland frame

Technique: in-group reassurance

This is not practical assistance, but emotional positioning:

• we = the good ones
• we = the caring ones
• we = moral superiority

📌 Actual political decisions are never discussed.

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🎯 SUMMARY – WHAT IS THE CORE OF THE MANIPULATION?

This message does not lie openly.
It is far more sophisticated than that.

👉 It uses real human suffering to:

• shut down critical thinking
• apply moral pressure
• designate a single “acceptable” position

This is not information.
This is emotional coercion.

According to a Ukrainian analyst (who has appeared several times on Telex), it must be said openly that it is in Ukraine’s interest for the Tisza party to win, because Péter Magyar supports Ukraine’s accession to the European Union.

They see this clearly — and so do we.

They would not be able to say no to Brussels, and Ukraine would already be on our necks next year.

We, however, are able to say no — just as Hungarians have clearly said no to Ukraine’s EU membership in the VOKS2025 vote.

That is why Fidesz is the safe choice.

Take a look at what a Ukrainian analyst says about what would truly be good for Ukraine. He says that it would be a Tisza government, a government led by Péter Magyar. We believe that this would by no means be good for Hungary. It may be good for Ukraine, but our task is to represent the interests of the Hungarian people, not those of Ukrainians.

We do not want Ukraine, through a forced fast-track accession, to become a member of the European Union as early as 2027 — that is, next year. On the one hand, this would have terrible economic consequences; on the other hand, it would mean importing the war together with Ukraine into the European Union.

So I say to everyone: you don’t need to listen to Fidesz politicians — listen to the words of this Ukrainian analyst, and then decide in April.

In Ukraine, they clearly see that a Tisza government led by Péter Magyar would be their gateway into the EU. We, on the other hand, currently represent the barrier — and this will remain so as long as we are in government. Until then, nothing will happen that is not in the interest of the Hungarian people.

🔴 1️⃣ “According to a Ukrainian analyst” – instrumentalizing external authority

Technique: appeal to foreign authority + cherry-picking

“According to a Ukrainian analyst (who has appeared several times on Telex)…”

❌ Not specified:

• their name
• the exact quote
• the context
• whether this is analysis, opinion, or political preference

📌 The trick:
What matters is not the analyst’s credibility, but their origin:

“a Ukrainian says it → it must be good for Ukraine → therefore bad for us”

This is not an argument, but an emotional compass.

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🔴 2️⃣ Ukraine’s interest = working against Hungary

Technique: zero-sum framing (what’s good for them is bad for us)

“It is in Ukraine’s interest for Tisza to win…”

📌 Embedded message:

• if you vote for Tisza → you serve foreign interests
• domestic political debate → reframed as a national security issue

This is classic loyalty framing:

“You’re either with us – or against us.”

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🔴 3️⃣ “They wouldn’t be able to say no to Brussels”

Technique: mind-reading + inevitability narrative

“They wouldn’t be able to say no to Brussels…”

❌ There is no:

• decision
• vote
• document
• concrete commitment

📌 This is prediction, not fact.
The goal:
👉 to strip people of the sense of control over the future
👉 “if they come to power → there’s no stopping it”

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🔴 4️⃣ “Ukraine would already be on our necks next year”

Technique: fear acceleration + temporal compression

This distorts reality on multiple levels:

• EU accession is not a fast-track sprint
• there is no “next year”
• there is no automatic import of war

📌 But in communication terms:

• fast
• frightening
• irreversible

This is panic production, not information.

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🔴 5️⃣ VOKS2025 – pseudo popular mandate

Technique: manufactured consent + false mandate

“Hungarians have clearly said no…”

📌 Problems:

• not legally binding
• not representative
• a political campaign tool

👉 Yet it is framed as if:

“the nation has already decided – anyone who disagrees is going against the people”

This is a debate-closing device, not a democratic argument.

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🔴 6️⃣ “Listen to the Ukrainian analyst – and then decide”

Technique: pseudo-pluralism (fake openness)

This is the most cynical part.

On the surface:

“don’t listen to Fidesz politicians”

In reality:

• only one, pre-interpreted narrative is allowed
• the conclusion is predefined

This is guided thinking, not choice.

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🔴 7️⃣ “We are the barrier” – savior role

Technique: savior framing + existential dependency

“We represent the barrier…”

📌 Message:

• without us → catastrophe
• with us → nothing bad can happen

This is not governance, but a dependency narrative.

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🧩 SUMMARY – WHAT IS THIS, OVERALL?

This message simultaneously:

• 🇺🇦 points to an external enemy
• 🧠 accelerates fear
• 🗳 shuts down democratic debate
• 🧱 presents itself as the only protective wall

👉 It is not about what is good for Hungary.
👉 It is about ensuring that there is no alternative.

The war in Ukraine is escalating: in Transcarpathia, daily power outages now last up to 18 hours.
Meanwhile, violent forced conscription continues. In recent days, numerous videos have surfaced showing the aggressive methods used by recruiters. Draft officers surround their chosen targets with overwhelming force and, without regard for methods, shove them into darkened vans.

Those who try to help people are arrested—as happened to our Hungarian compatriot who attempted to help five people escape to Hungary. The Consulate General in Berehove is providing him with all possible assistance.

War is horrific—we all know this and we all see it. That is precisely why it is so frightening to hear pro-war rhetoric from the NATO Secretary General, chiefs of staff, and EU leaders, who fantasize about deploying European troops to Ukraine.

Have you seen the situation in Transcarpathia? I mean the latest developments. I came across news reporting that power outages there are now extremely long. For most of the day, there is practically no electricity or energy, and heating is obviously extremely problematic in many places. But these are not the only shocking reports. For example, those who help people who do not want to die in this war and try to evade forced conscription are fired upon and threatened with very severe reprisals.

These two stories—just small examples among countless others—show how horrific war truly is, how tragic it can become, and that no sane person could ever wish for it to spread here as well. And yet, unfortunately, many European and Brussels-based politicians, including Tisza politicians, are pushing the country in exactly this direction. That is why how we decide in April is so important—because we are not choosing our fate for four years, but for the coming decades.

The Brussels war madness has its representatives in Hungary as well. Their captured man is here—the one they want to bring to power. Péter Magyar simply would not be able to say no to his superiors.

Since the outbreak of the war, the national government has consistently pursued a policy of peace. As long as there is a national government, we will send neither weapons nor soldiers into the war—that is why Fidesz remains the safe choice.

🧠 WHAT IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING IN THIS TEXT?

🔴 1️⃣ Shocking anecdotes → presented as general reality

Technique: emotional shock framing + anecdotal evidence

“18-hour power outages”

“darkened vans”

“surrounding the victims”

“anyone who helps gets arrested”

📌 Problem:
There is no:

• date
• source
• official data
• verifiable report

👉 Effect:
The brain doesn’t question—it reacts: fear, anger, empathy.

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🔴 2️⃣ “There are countless such stories” – massification without evidence

Technique: unverifiable generalization

“this is just one small story among many”

📌 A classic trick:
If there are “so many,” why prove even one?

👉 Message:
“Don’t ask—this is already a settled fact.”

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🔴 3️⃣ Humanitarian framing → political pivot

Technique: empathy hijacking

Start: suffering, cold, fear
Turn: “that’s why what’s being said in Brussels is so frightening”

📌 This is where emotional redirection happens:
the tragedy in Transcarpathia → European political decisions → Hungarian domestic politics

👉 There is no logical link—only an emotional one.

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🔴 4️⃣ Deliberate distortion of military statements

Technique: semantic distortion + future certainty framing

NATO Secretary General
Chiefs of Staff
EU leaders

📌 Military language actually refers to:

• preparedness
• scenarios
• deterrence

📌 Propaganda translation:
👉 “they are fantasizing about deploying European troops”

This is not a declaration of war, but a discourse about defense.

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🔴 5️⃣ “Those who help are persecuted” – a moral trap

Technique: moral blackmail

those who help = good
those who don’t = inhumane
those who question = insensitive

📌 Goal:
moral closure → no debate → no nuance

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🔴 6️⃣ Timed election panic

Technique: high-stakes framing

“we are not deciding for four years, but for decades”

📌 Classic elements:

• the decision is fatal
• there is no way back
• now or never

👉 This is psychological pressure, not argumentation.

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🔴 7️⃣ “Brussels’ puppet” – loyalty accusation

Technique: guilt by association + loyalty framing

“their captive man”
“he wouldn’t be able to say no”
“his bosses”

📌 There is no:

• concrete instruction
• document
• vote
• decision

👉 An identity-based attack, not a political debate.

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🔴 8️⃣ False exclusivity

Technique: false dilemma

“As long as there is a national government… that’s why only Fidesz is the safe choice”

Message:

• either them
• or war

📌 This is not democracy, but a two-pole fear framework.

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🎯 SUMMARY – WHAT IS THE REAL GOAL?

Not to:

• help you understand the situation in Transcarpathia
• give you a clear view of NATO policy
• enable a nuanced decision

But to make you feel this:

“If I don’t vote for them, there will be war.”

This is emotional coercion, not information.