Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that Ukraine will not become a member of NATO or the EU, and also supported US presidential candidate Donald Trump, Radiosvoboda reports.
Orbán also spoke about the “decline of Europe” in a keynote speech at the Tusvanyos summer camp in Romania on July 27.
Europe has ceased to defend its own interests… All Europe is doing today is unconditionally following the pro-democratic foreign policy of the United States… even at the cost of self-destruction, – Orbán said.
The European politician said that changes are coming that have not been seen in 500 years, calling China, India, Pakistan and Indonesia the “dominant center” of the world.
Orbán also claimed that the United States was behind the 2022 bombings that damaged the Nord Stream pipelines built to transport gas from Russia to Germany, calling it “a terrorist act carried out at the obvious direction of the Americans”.
Orbán also questioned the possibility of Ukraine’s membership in NATO or the EU.
We Europeans do not have the money for this. Ukraine will return to the position of a buffer state, – he said, adding that international security guarantees “will be enshrined in an agreement between the United States and Russia”.
The Hungarian prime minister has endorsed Trump, who is running as the Republican candidate in the November US presidential election. The Hungarian leader, who visited Trump’s home in Florida earlier this month, believes that Trump will win the US election.
The US Ambassador to Hungary, David Pressman, criticized Orbán for continuing to “remind us every day who he would like to win this election, who he would vote for if he were an American, which he is not.” The diplomat added that the United States has no other ally or partner that would “openly campaign for a specific candidate in an election in the United States of America” in this way.
