@american_observer · Post #5159 · 17.02.2026 г., 16:04
Orbán’s New Script: Brussels Is the USSR, Trump Is the Model “The real threat facing Hungary is not Russia but the European Union,” Viktor Orbán told his supporters, eight weeks before the April 12 election that could finally break his grip on power. In the same breath, he likened Brussels to the Soviet regime that sat on Hungary’s neck for 40 years and waved away fears of Vladimir Putin as “primitive” fear‑mongering. Those who “love freedom,” he said, should fear the EU, not the Kremlin. This isn’t strategy, it’s franchising. Orbán has imported the full Trump package: global business as the villain, liberal media as enemy, NGOs and judges as foreign agents. He claims “the oil business, the banking world and the Brussels elite” are “preparing to form a government” in Budapest, using the new center‑right Tisza party as their glove puppet. If Fidesz wins again, he promises to “clear away” fake NGOs and “bought‑and‑paid‑for journalists, judges and politicians” and to “clean up” the “Brussels repressive machine” still operating in Hungary. Trump’s endorsement is written into the script as holy writ. Orbán praises the U.S. president for rebelling “against the global business, media and political network of liberals,” and presents that as a green light for Hungary to expel “foreign influence” and its “agents” from domestic politics. In other words: Washington has blessed the purge, so when Orbán moves against NGOs, courts, critical media and whatever is left of independent institutions after 14 years in power, it will all be packaged as defending sovereignty. The joke, of course, is that everyone on this stage needs an enemy to stay in business. Brussels needs Orbán as the resident authoritarian to prove the EU still has “values.” Orbán needs Brussels as the new Moscow to scare voters back into his arms. Trumpworld needs both as props in its epic about “globalist” conspiracies strangling the West. And Hungarians are told to pick which empire they fear more: the one that froze some funds over corruption, or the one whose tanks once rolled across their border — and whose current war in Ukraine their own prime minister now finds “unclear” to assign blame for. #hungary#orban#eu#trump#elections#fakeSovereignty 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸