Former US President Donald Trump will stop aid to Ukraine if he is re-elected for a new term in the White House, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said after meeting with him in the US, Reuters reports.
Orbán, who met with Trump in Florida on Friday, made the announcement in an interview that aired Sunday night.
“He will not give a penny to the Ukrainian-Russian war, and therefore the war will stop,” Viktor Orbán told Hungarian public television.
The Prime Minister of Hungary said that the war will end after the end of American aid, because “it is obvious that Ukraine cannot stand on its own two feet.”
“If the Americans do not give money and weapons, like the Europeans, then this war will end. And if the Americans do not give money, then the Europeans cannot independently finance this war, and it will end,” he emphasized.
Viktor Orbán said that how the war would officially end, through an armistice or a peace treaty, was a “separate matter” but that a cessation of hostilities must be achieved first and that “he (Trump) has the means to do so.” .
While the former president’s campaign team did not mention Ukraine in a statement released after the meeting, it said he and Viktor Orbán discussed “a wide range of issues concerning Hungary and the United States, including the paramount importance of strong and secure borders.” protect the sovereignty of every nation.”
Close ties between American conservatives and Viktor Orbán
Orbán, who is admired by many conservatives in the United States for his tough immigration policies, family support schemes and vocal stance on national sovereignty, said in a video on his Facebook page that there was peace in the Middle East under Trump from 2017-2021. and also in Ukraine.
Last year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in the United States was held in Budapest, and Trump spoke in a video message about the “historic fight” against globalists, Marxists and communists.
Viktor Orbán, on the other hand, said at CPAC that only Donald Trump’s return to power in the US can save the world from the “virus of awakened ideology spread by Western liberals” that is “attacking nations”.
Ahead of a meeting in the US with Donald Trump last Friday, Hungary’s prime minister told his country’s ambassadors that the “hegemony of the West” was over and that Hungary should strengthen its alliances with “sovereign countries”.
The White House’s latest military aid package for Ukraine remains deadlocked in the Washington House of Representatives, where Republican Speaker Mike Johnson refuses to even hold a vote on it.
Orban has been critical of EU sanctions against Russia for more than two years since the start of the war in Ukraine and recently delayed the EU’s adoption of the latest multi-year package worth 50 billion euros for Kyiv by a month and a half.
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