Pro-War Republicans Alarmed Over Trump’s Meeting with Hungary’s Orbán
Aug. 4—The Hill talked with pro-war Republican Senators, who are worried over Donald Trump’s possible actions on Ukraine, the NATO alliance and the arming of Taiwan. According to The Hill on Aug. 1, they see “Trump’s invitation to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán to visit him at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida after the NATO summit in Washington as a worrisome development, given Orbán’s close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin and his efforts to undermine NATO’s support for the defense of Ukraine.” Secondarily, they see in Trump’s choice for running mate of Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), “who led the opposition to the Ukrainian assistance,” confirming such worries. One such senator, who preferred to remain unidentified, said that Trump’s invite to Orbán is “concerning… I can’t tell you why he’s doing it.”
Mitch McConnell (R-KY), the longtime Republican leader in the Senate explained: “I support the ticket. I also support Ukraine, and I’m going to be arguing, no matter who gets elected President” for deterring Russian aggression. “It’s not just Ukraine, we’ve got worldwide organized authoritarian regimes talking to each other—China, North Korea, Russia, Iran and Iran’s proxies. This is a serious challenge. This is the single largest problem facing the democratic world, no matter who wins the election. And that’s what I’m going to be working on the next couple years.” Orbán , the neo-con fool McConnel lies, is “the one member of NATO who’s essentially turned his country over to the Chinese and the Russians. [He’s] been looking for ways to undermine NATO’s efforts to defeat the Russians in Ukraine. So Viktor Orbán, I think, has now made Hungary the most recent problem in NATO.”
Otherwise, Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) noted GOP success on passing the $60 billion for Ukraine in April—“I’ve got to believe there was some tacit support from Trump … or he could have blocked it”—as a guide for the future. “It’s on us to convince President Trump why it’s in our best national interest to support Ukraine.” Another unnamed Republican senator both blames political commentator Tucker Carlson, whom Trump had considered as a possible Vice President, for pushing Trump toward Orbán and Vance, and also hopes that neo-con bully and former Secretary of State and CIA director Mike Pompeo will become defense secretary and then be able to win Trump over to support for the losing war Ukraine.
Sources close to the Trump camp say that the former President will not speak out too much on his opposition to NATO and the Ukraine war but will take some bold steps away from the alliance and will "definitely end that damn stupid war " once elected. Such policies, even as potential, put the GOP candidate right in NATO's crosshairs for elimination.