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.’
NATO Gearing Up for Direct Conflict With Russia: Hungarian Prime Minister
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban holds a press conference after the parliamentary election in Budapest, Hungary, on April 6, 2022. Bernadett Szabo/Reuters
Adam Morrow
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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.