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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Viktor Orbán has claimed that Donald Trump has “detailed and well-founded” plans for peace between Russia and Ukraine in a letter to a top EU body that is likely to inflame tensions about the Hungarian prime minister’s diplomatic freelancing.

Orbán, who met Trump at his Palm Beach compound last week, said in his letter to the president of the European Council, who organises meetings of the bloc’s 27 national leaders, that the Republican presidential nominee was ready to act as peace broker “immediately” after his election.

The “likely outcome” of a Trump victory meant that the EU should reopen “direct lines of diplomatic communication” with Russia and “high-level political talks” with China, Orbán wrote in the letter addressed to the council’s president, Charles Michel, which was first reported by the Financial Times.

“I made this clear even prior to your visit to Moscow and this was subsequently reiterated by High Representative [Josep] Borrell,” Michel wrote, referring to the EU’s top diplomat.

Responding to the leaked letter on X, the Hungarian prime minister’s political director, Balázs Orbán (who is unrelated), doubled down on the message bound to provoke Hungary’s EU partners.

Separately, he offered congratulations to JD Vance, the hard-right Ohio senator who was selected as Trump’s running mate on Tuesday and is a leading opponent of aid to Ukraine.


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