By James Morley III | Thursday, December 11, 2025, at 4:19 p.m. EST
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has hailed the Trump administration’s newly released U.S. National Security Strategy as validation of his longstanding critique of European Union decline, claiming Washington now shares his diagnosis of a “civilisational-scale” European decline.
In a social media post Thursday, Orban described the strategy as “the most important and most interesting document of recent years,” stating it speaks about Brussels in the same tone the Biden administration and EU officials used when discussing Hungary. He added: “What goes around comes around.”
Orban wrote that the U.S. sees Europe has reached “the wall of a long economic dead end,” where a weak ally cannot defend itself or be relied upon internationally.
He further asserted that America now perceives a broader “civilisational crisis” across Europe, endangering democracy, free markets, and core values.
Orban welcomed what he termed American support for rebuilding strategic ties with Russia, criticizing European liberals for having “burned” those links—a stance consistent with his pro-engagement approach toward Moscow and skepticism of EU sanctions.
Framing the strategy as proof that “America has a precise understanding of Europe’s decline,” Orban claimed Hungary is no longer alone in its fight against what he portrays as European moral and political decay.
The post underscores Orban’s alignment with President Donald Trump’s “America First” foreign policy shift, deepening rifts with many EU partners who view both his rhetoric and the new U.S. strategy as hostile to the European project.
Trump and Orban have shared admiration since the president’s first administration. In March 2024, Trump hosted Orban at Mar-a-Lago, where he declared: “There’s nobody that’s better, smarter, or a better leader than Viktor Orban. He’s fantastic.”
