Orban endorses Trump for White House return

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has endorsed former US President Donald Trump's re-election bid, urging him to "come back" and resolve the conflict in Ukraine. Both Trump and Orban have condemned US President Joe Biden for supplying Ukraine with tens of billions of dollars worth of weapons, both arguing that doing so risks escalating the conflict into a "third world war". Orban delivered his speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), a Hungarian offshoot of the annual American right-wing conference. He touched on populist themes regularly invoked by Trump, decrying transgender ideology, mass immigration, and US-backed 'color revolutions' in the Middle East and former Soviet Union. Orban has made no secret of his support for Trump, and has forged links with a host of prominent names on the American right. He sees his struggle against the liberal bureaucracy in Brussels as analogous to Trump's campaign against those he calls "America Last globalists" in Washington.