NATO Gearing Up for Direct Conflict With Russia: Hungarian Prime Minister

Hungarian leader Viktor Orban compares Western alliance to someone ‘using a flamethrower to put out a fire.’

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban holds a press conference after the parliamentary election in Budapest, Hungary, on April 6, 2022. Bernadett Szabo/Reuters

The Western NATO alliance is moving ever closer to direct conflict with Russia over Ukraine, according to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.

“Instead of defending us, NATO is dragging us [Hungary], a member state, into a world war,” Mr. Orban said in broadcast remarks on May 31.