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Alsephina Nov 8, 2024

Europe Can’t Fund ‘Lost’ War in Ukraine Without US, Orban Says

Europe Can’t Fund ‘Lost’ War in Ukraine Without US, Orban Says - Lemmy

> 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.” Archive link [https://ghostarchive.org/archive/LPfMV]

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9point6 Nov 8, 2024

Once again, Orban says exactly what Putin wants him to say

At some point it becomes malicious to even print what he says

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dariusj18 Nov 8, 2024

There is an unfortunate reality that there is a tipping point. At some point, Europe will need to cede Ukraine and stock up for itself to defend the next Russian incursion.

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anachronist Nov 8, 2024

Yeah the best way to discourage a revanchist is to give him what he wants. Succeeding in Ukraine will definitely convince Putin not to attack the baltics, poland, or finland.

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freagle

You don’t understand anything about military reality, let alone actual motivations.

The CIA itself reports and has been reporting for years that Putin has no expansionist ambitions politically and no expansionist capabilities militarily.

There’s a reason why the Russian military has not tried to take Kiev and it’s because defending supply lines across the wide open plains of Ukraine is incredibly difficult and costly.

Russia is not capable of taking all of Eastern Europe and holidng and it has no plans or intentions to do so.