Europe won’t be able to finance Ukraine’s defenses against Russia’s invasion on its own if the US withdraws support under Donald Trump’s next presidency, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said Friday.

Orban said recent events vindicated the conclusions from his controversial July diplomatic mission to Kyiv, Moscow and Beijing and showed Ukraine was losing the war.

“The Americans are going to get out of this war,” Orban, who is hosting a European Union summit in Budapest on Friday, said on public radio. “Europe can’t finance this war on its own.”

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    • @dariusj18
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      213 days ago

      There is always a cutoff cost. For example, it cannot support Ukraine to the point that it’s own territorial security is compromised.

      • @SomeGuy69
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        -112 days ago

        Ukraine is currently fighting this war for Europe too. Spending money and lifes directly in a confrontation is massively more expensive than sending weapons.

    • Bobr
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      -1113 days ago

      I disagree, Europe needs to never cede Ukraine at any cost—anything else is rewarding the warmonger

      Yeah, why would Europe do that? After all its Ukrainians who will continue dying after being kidnapped off the streets and forbidden to leave the country.
      Enjoy your life, and don’t think of hundreds of thousands dead people (not like you ever did that of course)…