In an interview with TV2 on Monday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said, "At last there's somewhere, NATO, where we have won."
PM Orbán said Hungary had turned its "isolated, losing position" into the "stronger, majority position", alongside the US, Turkey, and Slovakia, "a serious group".
During the recent NATO summit, the US president made clear "that he is pro-peace", the prime minister said. NATO, he added, was not formed to wage war but to defend and establish peace, adding that Ukraine must not become a member of the alliance as there was "no question of NATO getting involved" in the Ukraine-Russia war.
Instead, the NATO alliance, PM Orbán said, must focus on making itself stronger and "our own lives safer".
Meanwhile, referring to Hungarian astronaut Tibor Kapu, the prime minister noted Hungary had produced two Nobel laureates and an astronaut in the past two years. "Hungary's reputation abroad is higher today than it was before", owing to "these excellent people", he said.