Orbán’s ‘Peace Mission’ Travels to Mar-a-Lago to Meet Trump
July 13—Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán left NATO’s gathering in Washington July 11 and traveled down to Mar-a-Lago, Florida, to meet with former President Donald Trump. Earlier this month, Orban had conducted some jet diplomacy, travelling first to Kyiv where he was able to force a meeting with NATO's sock puppet dictator of the Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy; from there he flew to Moscow to the meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin; and from there, he was off to Beijing, where he met with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Trump and Orban have mutual respect for each other and last met in Florida in March. Sources report that Trump, who ha stated his intention to end the NATO war in the Ukraine in Russia, if elected in November, before his inauguration Jan. 20, 2025. He has stated that Ukraine must negotiate directly Russia, and has said numerous times that, if he was in office, the war would not have erupted. Trump and Orban have both stated their opposition to NATO's extension eastward, and are opposed to Ukraine membership. Trump has several times, both as President, and during the current campaign questioned the reason for the NATO alliance and has implied and in some cases threaten to withdraw the U.S. He said recently that he does not see why Europe cannot defend itself, even against Russia, and has questioned the validity of article 5 of the NATO charter, which would commit the U.S. to defend NATO countries if they were to provoke a war.
Sources have reported that Trump is in basic agreement with the concepts of a land-for-peace deal that was recently proposed by Putin, as a basis for negotiation. These sources stress that Trump is being careful as to how he proceeds with his unstated publicly plan for peace as he does not want to be accused by the Biden White House of interfering in the conduct of U.S. foreign policy.
On July 11 Orban posted on X about his session with Trump as “peace mission 5.0…. We discussed ways to make peace. The good news of the day: he’s going to solve it!” (Apparently, Orbán’s count is 1.0 Kyiv, 2.0 Moscow, 3.0 Beijing and 4.0 Washington’s NATO meeting.) Orbán’s spokesman described the meeting “as the next stop of his peace mission…. The discussion was about the possibilities of peace” Trump posted on his Truth Social network: “Thank you Viktor. There must be PEACE, and quickly. Too many people have died in a war that should never have started!”
Apparently, Biden did not invite Orbán to the White House, neither this visit nor during Orbán’s March meeting at Mar-a-Lago; it is not know whether Orbán asked for a White House meeting either time.
In between, Orbán’s two meetings with Trump, he received Donald Trump, Jr., in Budapest on June 13, two days before the fake “Peace Summit” in Switzerland, sponsored by NATO and Zelenskyy that had excluded Russian participation. Trump’s son told a June 12 Budapest event that any peace negotiations had to include Russia.
White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan expressed some exasperation yesterday over Trump possibly strategizing over how peace negotiations might be made possible. He stated: “Whatever adventurism is being undertaken without Ukraine’s consent or support is not something that’s consistent with our policy, the foreign policy of the United States.”
Curiously, Ukraine consented to the adventurism when Orbán came to Kyiv to meet with Zelenskyy, and only objected when Orbán talked with the other side—what better example that the games played with the Minsk Accord never stopped, and that Kyiv and Washington have only toyed with peace. [dms]