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prime Minister Viktor Orbán of Hungary effectively endorsed Donald Trump for president in an interview and, on the eve of this week’s NATO summit, blasted the United States for having a “war policy” in Ukraine rather than a strategy for achieving peace.
Orbán’s comments came in an interview Sunday with Axel Springer media outlets.
In the interview, Orbán commented extensively on Trump and U.S. politics, predicting there was a “very, very high chance” that President Joe Biden would not be reelected and describing that as a positive outcome.
I’m sure that a change would be good for the world,” Orbán said, cautioning that he did not want to intrude too much into the American election — despite doing just that.
Orbán, who is widely distrusted by fellow European leaders for his pro-Russian views and autocratic tendencies, praised Trump in generous terms as a “self-made man” who has a “different approach to everything.”
“I believe that will be good for the world politics,” Orbán said, adding of Trump: “He is the man of peace. Under his four-year term he did not initiate a single war, and he did a lot in order to create peace in old conflicts in very complicated areas of the world.”
He further criticized the Biden administration’s stance toward the Russia-Ukraine war, calling for Europe to stop copying American foreign policy while predicting an increasingly bloody conflict in the coming months.
