The re-election of former US President Donald Trump is the only “hope” for stabilising a fragile and increasingly chaotic international security situation, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjárto told Fox News Digital in an interview aired on Thursday.
“We do believe that actually the game changer here can be the US presidential election, in case President Trump wins,” Szijjarto said, referring specifically to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. “Because knowing Trump, I think it’s absolutely possible — absolutely likely — that with two phone calls he can end this conflict,” he added.
“No one else can do so,” he insisted. “I think only President Trump has the hope and our hope is all in President Trump to do this.”
When asked whether that could be understood as a preference for a second Trump administration, Szijjarto responded by saying that “we are not Americans, so we cannot say we prefer this or that.”
“What we can definitely say is the following: Politics is based on experience, and we have a clear experience about the term of President Trump in office, and we have clear experience from the terms when the Democrats were there,” he said.
“From the aspect of the US-Hungary relations and from the aspect of the global security situation, when it comes to the US-Hungary relations, it’s obvious that during [the term of] President Trump, these relations have been on the top — best ever,” the minister added.
He said that under the presidency of Donald Trump “everything was under control.” “Since President Trump has left office, the whole global security situation is deteriorating, so, I mean, these are experiences.”
“If we base it on our experience, we say yes, from a perspective of US-Hungary relations, I think President Trump would bring another impetus, freshness, dynamism to this relationship, and I think if President Trump is elected, I think the world has a good chance to become a more peaceful place compared to the current situation,” he said.
He slammed criticisims of Hungary’s efforts towards peace talks, insisting that “those who have been criticizing us, the prime minister, the peace mission, have clearly been the pro-war politicians.”
“They just simply don’t like that there is a country, there is a government, there is a prime minister in Europe who speaks direct language, who speaks honestly and who is not a hostage of the liberal mainstream,” Szijjarto said. “Therefore, it is very unpleasant and inconvenient for them that we are there and that we act, that we speak, that we make actions.”
The foreign minister rejected the idea of Ukraine joining NATO, saying that “including Ukraine into NATO would put us in a totally exposed situation, security-wise, because it would mean that NATO could be easily dragged into a war against Russia at any time, and this is something that we don’t want.”
“Everyone knows that any kind of direct confrontation between NATO and Russia would mean an outbreak of third world war immediately, and we have joined NATO to enhance our security and not to make ourselves exposed.”
