Europe won’t be able to finance Ukraine’s defenses against Russia’s invasion on its own if the US withdraws support under Donald Trump’s next presidency, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said Friday.

Orban said recent events vindicated the conclusions from his controversial July diplomatic mission to Kyiv, Moscow and Beijing and showed Ukraine was losing the war.

“The Americans are going to get out of this war,” Orban, who is hosting a European Union summit in Budapest on Friday, said on public radio. “Europe can’t finance this war on its own.”

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stock up for itself to defend the next Russian incursion.

As long as NATO stops its incursions, I don’t see why European states would need to do that.

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I was saying that with the assumption that the US winds down support for Ukraine and is not seen as a trusted partner for European security.

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I mean, the US Democrat administration blew up its European partner’s gas pipeline, which is a casus belli, so it was already untrustworthy.

Henry Kissinger:

  • America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests.
  • It may be dangerous to be America’s enemy, but to be America’s friend is fatal.
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