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Viktor Orban

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The Tucker Carlson Show
Hungary Prime Minister Viktor Orban on USAID, Trump, Immigration, NATO, and the Russia/Ukraine War

Slovaks do it, Hungary do it, Serbia do it.

The Tucker Carlson Show
Hungary Prime Minister Viktor Orban on USAID, Trump, Immigration, NATO, and the Russia/Ukraine War

It's so ridiculous that it's always a dilemma to me to react at all or not. But, okay, if I take it seriously, you know, I am not a pro-Putin man. I'm a pro-Hungarian guy, you know, because my job is to serve my nation. That's first. Second, we have some memories with the Russians. It's not a honeymoon anyway.

The Tucker Carlson Show
Hungary Prime Minister Viktor Orban on USAID, Trump, Immigration, NATO, and the Russia/Ukraine War

It's so ridiculous that it's always a dilemma to me to react at all or not. But, okay, if I take it seriously, you know, I am not a pro-Putin man. I'm a pro-Hungarian guy, you know, because my job is to serve my nation. That's first. Second, we have some memories with the Russians. It's not a honeymoon anyway.

The Tucker Carlson Show
Hungary Prime Minister Viktor Orban on USAID, Trump, Immigration, NATO, and the Russia/Ukraine War

It's so ridiculous that it's always a dilemma to me to react at all or not. But, okay, if I take it seriously, you know, I am not a pro-Putin man. I'm a pro-Hungarian guy, you know, because my job is to serve my nation. That's first. Second, we have some memories with the Russians. It's not a honeymoon anyway.

The Tucker Carlson Show
Hungary Prime Minister Viktor Orban on USAID, Trump, Immigration, NATO, and the Russia/Ukraine War

You know, Hungary, just to the audience, Hungary is dominated by always three major powers. One, Germany, I mean, Berlin, then Moscow, and Istanbul. So we are living just in the middle of that. Each of them occupied at least once. Russian street, you know? So that's the menu card, what you have if you are living in that peculiar part of the European Union. Sounds like a lot of fun.

The Tucker Carlson Show
Hungary Prime Minister Viktor Orban on USAID, Trump, Immigration, NATO, and the Russia/Ukraine War

You know, Hungary, just to the audience, Hungary is dominated by always three major powers. One, Germany, I mean, Berlin, then Moscow, and Istanbul. So we are living just in the middle of that. Each of them occupied at least once. Russian street, you know? So that's the menu card, what you have if you are living in that peculiar part of the European Union. Sounds like a lot of fun.

The Tucker Carlson Show
Hungary Prime Minister Viktor Orban on USAID, Trump, Immigration, NATO, and the Russia/Ukraine War

You know, Hungary, just to the audience, Hungary is dominated by always three major powers. One, Germany, I mean, Berlin, then Moscow, and Istanbul. So we are living just in the middle of that. Each of them occupied at least once. Russian street, you know? So that's the menu card, what you have if you are living in that peculiar part of the European Union. Sounds like a lot of fun.

The Tucker Carlson Show
Hungary Prime Minister Viktor Orban on USAID, Trump, Immigration, NATO, and the Russia/Ukraine War

So therefore, I decided when I came back to power in 2010, and I made a deal with President Russia, President Putin, that whatever was the history between the two nations, let it to the historians and discuss it. And we should find a reasonable cooperation and do it economically as much as we had. And we did. And it worked. It was good. You know, Russians always kept their words.

The Tucker Carlson Show
Hungary Prime Minister Viktor Orban on USAID, Trump, Immigration, NATO, and the Russia/Ukraine War

So therefore, I decided when I came back to power in 2010, and I made a deal with President Russia, President Putin, that whatever was the history between the two nations, let it to the historians and discuss it. And we should find a reasonable cooperation and do it economically as much as we had. And we did. And it worked. It was good. You know, Russians always kept their words.

The Tucker Carlson Show
Hungary Prime Minister Viktor Orban on USAID, Trump, Immigration, NATO, and the Russia/Ukraine War

So therefore, I decided when I came back to power in 2010, and I made a deal with President Russia, President Putin, that whatever was the history between the two nations, let it to the historians and discuss it. And we should find a reasonable cooperation and do it economically as much as we had. And we did. And it worked. It was good. You know, Russians always kept their words.

The Tucker Carlson Show
Hungary Prime Minister Viktor Orban on USAID, Trump, Immigration, NATO, and the Russia/Ukraine War

When we agreed on anything with Putin, that was done on my side as well. So therefore, my attitude to the Russians is not that negative and crazy as many of the Western leaders at this moment. And my position on this war between Ukraine and Russia always said that, guys, don't forget that this war is not about Ukraine. Don't make a mistake.

The Tucker Carlson Show
Hungary Prime Minister Viktor Orban on USAID, Trump, Immigration, NATO, and the Russia/Ukraine War

When we agreed on anything with Putin, that was done on my side as well. So therefore, my attitude to the Russians is not that negative and crazy as many of the Western leaders at this moment. And my position on this war between Ukraine and Russia always said that, guys, don't forget that this war is not about Ukraine. Don't make a mistake.

The Tucker Carlson Show
Hungary Prime Minister Viktor Orban on USAID, Trump, Immigration, NATO, and the Russia/Ukraine War

When we agreed on anything with Putin, that was done on my side as well. So therefore, my attitude to the Russians is not that negative and crazy as many of the Western leaders at this moment. And my position on this war between Ukraine and Russia always said that, guys, don't forget that this war is not about Ukraine. Don't make a mistake.

The Tucker Carlson Show
Hungary Prime Minister Viktor Orban on USAID, Trump, Immigration, NATO, and the Russia/Ukraine War

The strategical reason of this war is called enlargement of NATO. So the question is whether we would like to enlarge NATO or not. If we would like to enlarge NATO, the Russians will never accept it. Whether you like it or not, you know, they will not let us to move closer to their borders. But this is the main issue, enlargement of NATO.

The Tucker Carlson Show
Hungary Prime Minister Viktor Orban on USAID, Trump, Immigration, NATO, and the Russia/Ukraine War

The strategical reason of this war is called enlargement of NATO. So the question is whether we would like to enlarge NATO or not. If we would like to enlarge NATO, the Russians will never accept it. Whether you like it or not, you know, they will not let us to move closer to their borders. But this is the main issue, enlargement of NATO.

The Tucker Carlson Show
Hungary Prime Minister Viktor Orban on USAID, Trump, Immigration, NATO, and the Russia/Ukraine War

The strategical reason of this war is called enlargement of NATO. So the question is whether we would like to enlarge NATO or not. If we would like to enlarge NATO, the Russians will never accept it. Whether you like it or not, you know, they will not let us to move closer to their borders. But this is the main issue, enlargement of NATO.

The Tucker Carlson Show
Hungary Prime Minister Viktor Orban on USAID, Trump, Immigration, NATO, and the Russia/Ukraine War

So then when the war has broken because Russia invaded Ukraine finally to stop the NATO membership and occupy the territories, I said to my colleagues that we should isolate NATO As much as we can and as soon as we can, this whole conflict. Otherwise, the conflict will accelerate, eating up more and more money, more and more casualties, more and more deaths, now hundreds of thousands of widows.

The Tucker Carlson Show
Hungary Prime Minister Viktor Orban on USAID, Trump, Immigration, NATO, and the Russia/Ukraine War

So then when the war has broken because Russia invaded Ukraine finally to stop the NATO membership and occupy the territories, I said to my colleagues that we should isolate NATO As much as we can and as soon as we can, this whole conflict. Otherwise, the conflict will accelerate, eating up more and more money, more and more casualties, more and more deaths, now hundreds of thousands of widows.

The Tucker Carlson Show
Hungary Prime Minister Viktor Orban on USAID, Trump, Immigration, NATO, and the Russia/Ukraine War

So then when the war has broken because Russia invaded Ukraine finally to stop the NATO membership and occupy the territories, I said to my colleagues that we should isolate NATO As much as we can and as soon as we can, this whole conflict. Otherwise, the conflict will accelerate, eating up more and more money, more and more casualties, more and more deaths, now hundreds of thousands of widows.

The Tucker Carlson Show
Hungary Prime Minister Viktor Orban on USAID, Trump, Immigration, NATO, and the Russia/Ukraine War

When two Slavic nations are in war, it's serious. Because they are both military-based nations. So it's a tragedy what's going on. It's really brutal. It's not just a geopolitical game, you know. It's a human tragedy anyway. So I said, we should isolate them and stop killing. But what now the Western strategy is that keep killing as long as it takes. So that's what they are doing.