WATCH: Hungarian PM Calls For Trump’s Re-Election: “Bring Us Peace Again”

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán delivered a speech where he called for the United States to reelect former President Donald Trump, saying he believes a war between Ukraine and Russia would have never occurred if Trump was still in the White House.

“Mr. President, come back, make American great again, bring us peace again,” said Orbán as the crowd roared its applause at a gathering of the Conservative Political Action Committee of Hungary.

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“Mr. President, come back, Make America Great Again, bring us peace again!”

I couldn’t agree more! pic.twitter.com/df83mekWyr

— Kari Lake (@KariLake) May 4, 2023

Orbán, who leads the nation’s Hungarian Civic Alliance party, is known as a conservative populist who has previously condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine though he has refused to send aid to Kyiv and continued to deal with the Kremlin on matters of energy resources for Hungary. His ambivalent stance, wildly popular at home, has positioned Orbán as a maverick in Europe who does not provide a knee-jerk affirmation of the continent’s isolationist policies towards Russia.

Hungary has also had a negative relationship with Ukraine in recent history over perceived wrongs, and Orbán threw cold water on the idea of Ukraine joining NATO last month.

Although the Hungarian prime minister is vocally supporting President Trump and has a waning relationship with President Joe Biden, he appears to be hedging his bets. Last month he sent allies to meet with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who is expected to challenge Trump for the Republican nomination. Katalin Novák, the nation’s president and a close ally of Orbán, met with DeSantis in March, as did Hungarian-born billionaire Thomas Péterffy, who said he would not be backing a Trump 2024 campaign, according to the Guardian.

“For the Orbán government, bilateral relations have a strong party-politics angle. They have been contemplating whether it was worth putting all their cards on Trump. The indictment against the former president only confirmed that,” said Daniel Hegedus, a Central Europe fellow at the German Marshall Fund.