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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  • Hirom@beehaw.org
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    2 months ago

    Says the man always dragging his feet when time comes to support Ukraine’s self-defense

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
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      2 months ago

      What a weird way to say support for the western installed regime forcing Ukrainians to fight a proxy war against Russia.