Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in an interview with Ben Shapiro:

"Of course, Russians attacked Ukraine in breach of international law. And, of course, even after that, we didn't endeavor to de-escalate the situation. The American administration, European politicians were saying, 'More war, more war, Ukrainians should win this war.' We Hungarians said, 'This will bring war to the West. Let us sit down. Let us cool the tension. Let us create peace or a ceasefire.'

We were the only ones to say this, and the Holy See, the Vatican. Now, the Americans are pro-peace also. And one or two European countries are also pro-peace. But, the majority of European Union states still want to continue the war.

My opinion is we need a ceasefire. We need peace. And we have to understand that integrating Ukraine into the Western economic and military world is not a success...

It is naivete to believe that Russian-Ukrainian talks will lead to peace. When Hungary took over the EU presidency for six months, I started first by flying to Kyiv, then went to Moscow, then to Beijing, and then to Mar-a-Lago. So I talked with everyone. And based on my experiences, if we leave peace up to these two guys [Zelenskyy and Putin], there will never be peace. The road to peace does not lead to Russian-Ukrainian talks. It leads through Russian-American talks. So when there will be an American-Russian talk, there will be peace... Peace can only be created by the Americans through discussions with the Russians. That's the key.

Everybody has to acknowledge, to admit that this war cannot be won in the trenches."
https://x.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1933805234318422447
https://litter.catbox.moe/4rj411v2cre68u1p.mp4

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