VICTOR ORBAN KNOWS THE SCORE
Asked if the West will change its position and pursue a negotiated settlement, the Hungarian Prime Minister replied, “Someone has to say, ‘I made a mistake.’ Sooner or later someone in the West will have to say that. This is why we’re looking forward to the U.S. presidential election, because it will give us that chance. Because while the leaders over there are also just people, and they don’t like to admit their mistakes, the election will solve this problem; because hopefully, the current president will leave office, President Trump will return, and he’ll be given a free hand to make peace. He can make peace without accepting blame. So in politics, it’s very difficult to admit mistakes, and then say that we’ve been going in one direction but now we have to go in the other direction. And this won’t happen in Europe by itself. For this, elections to the European Parliament are needed, and in America, a presidential election is needed. And if there’s a new configuration, then the European institutional system and leaders that emerge from a pro-peace European election and a Donald Trump winning in America, can, as I see it, create peace together, as an essentially American initiative.”
Viktor Orbán is scheduled to meet with Donald Trump in Florida on March 8 to discuss the situation in Europe.