Far-right leader talks of new Asia-oriented world order and throws support behind Donald Trump
, said on Saturday that the EU was sliding toward oblivion, in a rambling anti-west speech in which he warned of a new, Asia-oriented “world order” while throwing his support behind Donald Trump’s US presidential bid.
Throughout Russia’s war in Ukraine, Orbán has broken with other EU leaders by refusing to provide Kyiv with weapons to defend against Russian forces and has routinely delayed, watered down or blocked efforts to send financial aid to the country and impose sanctions on Moscow. “That is why they want to put him in prison. That’s why they want to take away his assets. And if that doesn’t work, that’s why they want to kill him,” Orbán said, referring to an assassination attempt on Trump at a Pennsylvania rally this month.
Orbán’s remarks on Saturday are not the first time he has used the festival in Transylvania to stir controversy. In 2014, Orban declared for the first time his intention to build an “illiberal state” in Hungary, and in 2022 he sparked international outrage after he railed against Europe becoming a “mixed-race” society.
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