„Those of us who are pro-peace must launch a counterattack on two fronts,” Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in an interview to the Patrióta YouTube channel on Sunday. One in Europe, where, he said, it was not only about having more pro-peace MEPs in the European Parliament than pro-war ones, but also about European voters pushing their own governments in the direction of „less war and more peace”. The other one, Orbán said, was the November election in the United States. He said that if „the current pro-war Democratic administration stays in power, it will be hard to move towards peace”. If Donald Trump returned, it would still not be easy, but that would enable clear, transparent and quick action, Orbán said. The prime minister said an immediate ceasefire was the most important thing now. „We need a sense of security, a perspective, so we can all believe that, of course, a big problem happened here, a war, but our leaders, both in Europe and America, have not lost their common sense.”
Orbán said it was not only US financier George Soros who was profiting off the war, but there were also others who were speculating, „the entire arms industry, and those who lend money for the purchase and production of arms”. He said there were huge monies and huge stakes on the table, and it took four things for them to succeed. „First, you need weapons, and they will finance the production of weapons,” Orbán said. „Then, you need men who are willing to fight, like the Ukrainians. Then, you need governments who want this, and they need to be bought just as the left has been bought in Hungary. And the fourth important thing is the media; there needs to be a corrupt media that is either controlled by them or was created by them, which conveys a pro-war atmosphere.” Speaking about Hungary, Orbán said at least half the media here offered a liberal worldview and the other half had a conservative, national sovereigntist worldview. This wide scope for describing and interpreting the world was not available in the West, he said.
He said it mattered to „the war lobby” whether Hungary stayed out of the war or not, because if it turned out that a country can be successful by staying out, „they will fear that others could follow suit”. Therefore, he added, they would look to Hungary as a „dangerous example”.