The Hungarian prime minister believes former US President Trump is capable of ending the war in Ukraine.
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Berlin Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has called for negotiations between the US and Russia on a ceasefire in Ukraine – and he is counting on US President Donald Trump, who was voted out two years ago.
“The ceasefire does not have to be between Russia and Ukraine, but between America and Russia,” Orban said in a public interview with Cicero magazine and the Berliner Zeitung in Berlin on Tuesday, according to the official translation. “Anyone who thinks that this war will be concluded through Russian-Ukrainian negotiations is not living in this world. The reality of power is different.”
Orban said that Ukraine could only defend itself against the Russian invaders because it received military support from the United States. The war is only open today because the Americans wanted it that way. “That’s why the Americans have to come to terms with the Russians. And then the war will be over.”
Orban also made it clear that he doesn’t think US President Joe Biden is the right negotiator on the American side. “The American President has gone too far,” he said.
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Biden has said things about Russian President Vladimir Putin that it is difficult for the two to negotiate peace. “Now what I’m saying is going to sound brutal. But hope for peace is called Donald Trump,” Orban said, according to the translation. After the war began, Biden had described Putin as a “butcher”, “war criminal” and “murderous dictator”.
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Orban is visiting Berlin for several days and has already met Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) and former Prime Minister Angela Merkel (CDU) during his stay. The event organized by the magazine “Cicero” was entitled “Storm over Europe – the Ukraine war, the energy crisis and geopolitical challenges”.
He assumes that Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) could have prevented the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine. At the event, according to the official translation, he said that Merkel had already prevented a war in 2014 through her actions after the Russian annexation of Crimea.
“What Angela Merkel did during the Crimean crisis was a masterpiece.” There was no war at the time because Germany’s diplomatic efforts isolated the conflict. “They didn’t let this go up and we all get involved.”
When asked whether he should be understood in such a way that, in his opinion, there would not have been a war against Ukraine with a Chancellor Merkel, Orban replied, according to the translation: “Certainly.” The Hungarian Prime Minister had Merkel on Sunday during his multi-day meeting Stay in Berlin met. Nothing was initially known about the content of the conversation.
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