In an interview with Carlson in Budapest, Viktor Orbán said that his ideal solution to the war in Ukraine — a nation that borders his own — would be to bring about a peace settlement immediately, but he said that this would likely only be possible with Donald Trump back in the White House.

“Trump is the man who can save the Western world and probably all human beings on the globe,” the Hungarian leader told Tucker Carlson on his show on X, formerly known as Twitter.

“Call back Trump. That’s the only way out. Call back Trump,” Orbán continued, saying that the “best foreign policy of the recent several decades belonged to him,” noting that Trump did not start any new wars, sought peace deals in the Middle East, and that he engaged with Chinese, North Koreans, and the Russians with respect.

“He’s [Trump] criticized because he’s not educated enough to understand the world politics. This is not the case,” Orbán said. “Facts count and his foreign policy was the best form for the world in the last several decades I have seen.”

The Hungarian populist leader went on to say that he did not believe that if Trump had been president last year, the Russians would have launched their invasion of Ukraine.

“Trump is the man who can save the Western world and probably the human beings in the world as well,” Orbán proclaimed.