Orbán lashes out at EU policy in Ukraine and applauds Trump during fiery speech in Romania

Prime Minister defends ‘Christian nationalism’ in the face of the absence of ‘public morality in the West’

Jul 28. () –

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has criticised what he sees as the European Union’s warmongering policy over the Ukraine war and championed Christian nationalism over “offended” liberals during a speech this weekend in the town of Baile Tusnad in Romanian Transylvania, although it has a high percentage of ethnic Hungarians.

“Brussels wants to achieve peace in Ukraine by supporting war. Europe has stopped defending its own interests and is now only following in the footsteps of the United States at the cost of its own self-destruction,” he said this past Saturday during a two-hour speech in this town, which he visits approximately once a year and where he usually gives his most impassioned speeches.

On this occasion, it should be added that Hungary currently holds the rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union, a moment that has further highlighted the usual frictions between the Eurosceptic Prime Minister and his partners in Brussels, especially since the tour that took him to Russia and meet with the country’s president, Vladimir Putin, at the beginning of the month.

Orbán, who described the idea that Russia is “a rigid Stalinist autocracy” as “false”, insisted that his trip to Moscow was part of a “peace mission” with the ultimate goal of “convincing Europe that it must pursue an independent policy in Ukraine” and claimed the importance of the “new axis of power” that has emerged on the continent since the war in Ukraine, one in which France and Germany have lost strength in the face of “the new centre of influence represented by London-Warsaw-kyiv, the Baltic states and the Scandinavian countries”.

The Hungarian prime minister did not mince words against Germany, which he accused of keeping “silent” on the explosion of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines at the end of 2022. Russia has insisted all along that it was sabotage by some of the Scandinavian countries, although the international community closed ranks from the outset and accused the Kremlin of having perpetrated a false flag attack.

“The fact that no one has yet clarified what happened shows that an act of submission has occurred in the face of a blatant act of terrorism directed by the United States,” he added.

In general terms, Orbán delivered a maximalist speech at Baile Tusnad in which he directly accused the West of “denying the existence of the nation-state”, a structure characterised by “a particular culture, with a set of common values ​​from which derive common moral requirements, under common consent, and a biblical basis”.

The Hungarian prime minister held up the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics — a spectacle marked by prominent interventions by the LGBTQ community — as an example that “there is no public morality in the West,” an entity that “has stopped aspiring to great ideals” and rejected “the secret of greatness, which is to serve something bigger than oneself,” so that “in the face of offended, slim-fitting, latte-drinking, sugar-free liberals,” one must “raise a flag for young and brave Christian nationalists to rally around.”

Nothing better represents this concept, in his view, than the Republican candidate for the White House and Orbán’s great ally, Donald Trump, a man with the mission of “turning the American people from a liberal post-nation state into a nation state, and that is why they want to imprison them, kill them or take away their wealth,” he said in relation to the attempted assassination of the tycoon two weeks ago. “This attempt will probably not be the last of the campaign,” he said.

Orbán said he was convinced that the former president would win the November elections, a moment that will represent a turning point for Europe given Trump’s intentions to reopen the lines of communication with Russia — the former president does not have a good relationship with the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, whom he considers a beggar for constantly requesting economic and military help — to negotiate peace.

“If Europe has not changed its policy towards peace by then, it will have to do so after Trump’s victory, admitting that it has been defeated,” warned the Prime Minister during his speech, reported by the Hungarian newspaper ‘Magyar Nemzet’, which is close to the president.