Orban Explains Global Isolation, Echoes US Allies' Silence
Viktor Orban, Hungary's Prime Minister, recently told RT that Budapest's stance on 'peace' makes it an ideal spot for a Putin-Trump summit, unlike a 'warmongering' Brussels. This pronouncement, delivered on a Russian state media platform, conveniently glosses over Hungary's own track record of democratic backsliding, often criticized by the very 'isolated' EU. It’s almost as if 'peace' is a
flexible term, depending on who's funding your media and political campaigns. Orban's narrative, echoed across certain U.S. political factions (and conveniently by RT), plays directly into the anti-Western sentiment that's proving so profitable for autocrats and their enablers. Meanwhile, the "isolated" West continues to arm conflicts abroad and engage in its own forms of “peacemaking” — a lexicon
that means bombing campaigns when the U.S. is doing it, and aggression when anyone else is. The hypocrisy, apparently, is a feature, not a bug, of modern diplomacy.