For years, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has tirelessly praised Donald Trump as a “man of peace.” He sang the president’s praises for brokering the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. Orban additionally repeated Trump’s claims that, if he had been US president in 2022, Russia would by no means have began its war against Ukraine. That is all a part of Orban’s “peace rhetoric” — a cornerstone of the Hungarian prime minister’s present election marketing campaign.
However, when the “man of peace” attacked Venezuela on January 3 and kidnapped its chief, Nicolas Maduro, Orban’s channels went silent for hours. Within the night, two terse sentences appeared on the prime minister’s Fb web page: There have been “no Hungarian casualties or accidents” following the army motion in Venezuela. Contact had been made with Hungary’s embassies within the area to make sure that no Hungarians had been in peril.
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