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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  • Lad@reddthat.com
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    3 hours ago

    If NATO is really as effective as it’s claimed to be, then the baltics, Poland, and Finland have nothing to worry about.

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      The enemy is both strong and weak. Russia is a paper tiger that will roll over all of Europe.