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Hungarian leader praised Republican front-runner as a “man of peace.”

Donald Trump will totally stop funding Ukraine if he wins the U.S. election in November, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said following a meeting between the right-wing figureheads.

“He will not give a penny in the Ukraine-Russia war,” Orbán told Hungarian state media Sunday. “Therefore, the war will end, because it is obvious that Ukraine can not stand on its own feet.”

The longtime allies met last Friday at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, a summit which was lambasted by U.S. President Joe Biden.

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[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 118 points 8 months ago (53 children)

Ahh yes. The same “peace” that would have fallen upon France and the UK if they just let Hitler take their land.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 26 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Worth remembering that a healthy chunk of the American business elite was more than ready to support a United Nazi Europe against the scourge of Stalin's Soviet Union. Luminaries from Henry Ford to George Prescott Bush were nakedly advocating a US alliance with the Germans in an attempt to reassert western dominion over the globe, as the colonial settlement system was cracking up in the wake of WW1.

Guys like Trump and Orban aren't anything new. A business-friendly globe-spanning conglomerate has been the end game for the PNAC crowd for a very long time.

[–] blazeknave@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago

Bush exponentially grew the family fortune, making broker fees, by funneling Americans' investments in these great mining opportunities in Dachau and Auschwitz, where the labor was free!

[–] aidan@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Don't forget FDR and Mussolini were mutual fans for a while

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Italy was an Allied Power in WW1, and it was assumed (for at least a little while) that they were in the same block.

[–] aidan@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Allying with Hitler wasn't the only problem with Mussolini...

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

I mean, we're still fucking around in Ethiopia, standing up military juntas and extracting raw materials at sub-market rates.

One of the nicest things you could say about Mussolini was that he absolutely sucked at waging war. Wish more European despots could claim the same.

[–] JustZ@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Rest in peace.

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[–] lipilee@feddit.nl 23 points 8 months ago

Yeah, fuck that guy. ("Which one?" "Yes.")

[–] Che_Donkey@lemmy.ml 19 points 8 months ago

Ah, Hungary, the Alabama of the EU

[–] ArcaneGadget@lemmy.world 18 points 8 months ago

Go fall from a 10th story balcony, onto a pair of bullets Orbán. You fucking traitorous piece of shit.

[–] Assman@sh.itjust.works 18 points 8 months ago (1 children)

it is obvious that Ukraine can not stand on its own feet

- head of NATO and EU member state

[–] BrokenGlepnir@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago

It's also a country that was on the wrong side of 2 world wars. Not the senior power, and as part of a larger country one of the times, but still in the wrong side.

[–] PoliticallyIncorrect@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Fuck Ukraine!!

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