Hungarian leader praised Republican front-runner as a “man of peace.”
Donald Trump will totally stop funding Ukraine if he wins the U.S. election in November, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said following a meeting between the right-wing figureheads.
“He will not give a penny in the Ukraine-Russia war,” Orbán told Hungarian state media Sunday. “Therefore, the war will end, because it is obvious that Ukraine can not stand on its own feet.”
The longtime allies met last Friday at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, a summit which was lambasted by U.S. President Joe Biden.
Then why should you believe anything he says or promises?
Again based on what?
I believe him when what he is saying lines up with what I expect him to do. Same with Donald Trump. Trump isn’t literally always lying, after all. I believe that this is the approach Putin is taking on Ukraine based on 3 points:
He says so. Essentially a prerequisite in this case. Though in this case he’s not literally saying so, it’s just the subtext behind his obvious lie about Nazis.
His actions don’t seem to have an ulterior motive beyond his stated ones, as far as the war goes. Are there any meaningful Russian troops movements anywhere besides Ukraine that I’ve missed? Assuming not, that points pretty strongly to him not lying.
If I were the leader of Russia, I can certainly imagine that a goal of mine is to reunite the USSR as Russia, which is headlined by the need to control Ukraine again. Ukraine is very meaningful both strategically and economically, providing many warm water ports. And I would also say it’s probably overestimating to claim he even wants all of Ukraine, based on, y’know, what Russia has literally been doing, but I certainly don’t disbelieve Putin wants the whole thing.
You can’t disbelieve people based only on who they are, it’s much easier to simply consider what makes logical sense for them to do, and cross check it with what they’ve said about it.