Trump Will Lead ‘Revolutionary’ European Regime Change, Says Orbán’s Political Director

Bal­azs Orbán, Vik­tor Orbán’s polit­i­cal direc­tor (no rela­tion), says US Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump will lead a rev­o­lu­tion in Europe, requir­ing regime change in Brus­sels. On 12 Decem­ber 2025, The Times report­ed that Vik­tor Orbán’s chief strate­gist declared “Europe is going down” and cel­e­brat­ed Trump’s Nation­al Secu­ri­ty Strat­e­gy as “the most impor­tant and most inter­est­ing doc­u­ment” of recent years, stat­ing “at last, we are not fight­ing alone” after both Orbáns met Trump in Wash­ing­ton. The arti­cle begins:

Europe faces ter­mi­nal decline unless the cen­tralised “woke, green, lib­er­al” polit­i­cal estab­lish­ment that runs the EU is forced from pow­er, Vik­tor Orbán’s chief strate­gist has said. “Europe is going down,” said Bal­azs Orbán, who is not relat­ed to the Hun­gar­i­an prime min­is­ter but is one of his most trust­ed advis­ers. In an inter­view with The Times, he said Pres­i­dent Trump was right to fear the end of west­ern Euro­pean civil­i­sa­tion as out­lined in Wash­ing­ton’s nation­al secu­ri­ty strat­e­gy. Vik­tor Orbán, 62, is a pari­ah to many oth­er Euro­pean lead­ers for con­tin­u­ing to cul­ti­vate his close rela­tion­ship with Pres­i­dent Putin of Rus­sia. He is also, how­ev­er, close to Trump, who has cit­ed Hun­gary as one of four nations that should con­sid­er leav­ing the EU.

Read more: https://www.thetimes.com/world/europe/article/balazs-orban-interview-nq36r2xx3

Key Points

• Bal­azs Orbán declared “lib­er­al era is over” and “more real­is­tic, prag­mat­ic, nation­al con­ser­v­a­tive era is com­ing,” stat­ing Trump’s Nation­al Secu­ri­ty Strat­e­gy came with­in weeks of both Orbáns meet­ing Trump in Wash­ing­ton, with Vik­tor Orbán cel­e­brat­ing the doc­u­ment while main­stream Euro­pean lead­ers recoiled in hor­ror from civil­i­sa­tion­al cri­sis analysis.
• The polit­i­cal direc­tor accused Euro­pean elites of using the Ukraine con­flict to “fur­ther push for cen­tral­i­sa­tion,” includ­ing emer­gency EU treaty pow­ers to block nation­al vetoes of the plan to seize frozen Russ­ian assets, stat­ing “every day they are chang­ing the rules, col­lect­ing more pow­er from the mem­ber states.”
• Bal­azs Orbán argued that a weak­ened Europe has become a less attrac­tive part­ner for Wash­ing­ton because it can­not defend its bor­ders or spend enough on mil­i­tary, mak­ing Brus­sels unre­li­able, stat­ing, “we became a prob­lem” and “they are not even a play­er in solv­ing prob­lems in the neigh­bour­hood” regard­ing the Ukraine war.
• Chief strate­gist opti­mistic the tide of his­to­ry is turn­ing Vik­tor Orbán’s way, stat­ing that the deci­sion to court Putin will pay off if Trump suc­ceeds in bro­ker­ing a long-term agree­ment between the West and Rus­sia, declar­ing “Brus­sels is the most iso­lat­ed pow­er cen­tre” while Hun­gary has “good rela­tions in all direc­tions with the big, major players.”

Balázs Orbán, Hungarian Architect of the Global National Conservative Alliance

Balázs Orbán, polit­i­cal direc­tor to Hun­gar­i­an Prime Min­is­ter Vik­tor Orbán and chair­man of the Math­ias Corv­i­nus Col­legium (MCC) board of trustees, has emerged as a cen­tral archi­tect of the Glob­al Nation­al Con­ser­v­a­tive Alliance (GNCA). The GNCA unites right-wing move­ments world­wide under shared prin­ci­ples of nation­al sov­er­eign­ty, cul­tur­al iden­ti­ty, and oppo­si­tion to glob­al insti­tu­tions, rep­re­sent­ing a sig­nif­i­cant depar­ture from Rea­gan-era conservatism.

Balázs Orbán deliv­ered a notable address at CPAC 2025 along­side Vice Pres­i­dent JD Vance, declar­ing that Trump’s vic­to­ry “saved your coun­try and did some­thing great for Europe, the world, and Hun­gary.” Accord­ing to NPR, Balázs Orbán devel­oped a con­scious strat­e­gy to estab­lish bridges toward the Anglo-Sax­on con­ser­v­a­tive world, rec­og­niz­ing that the left had built glob­al net­works while con­ser­v­a­tives lacked sim­i­lar infrastructure.

The Math­ias Corv­i­nus Col­legium serves as a key insti­tu­tion­al vehi­cle for the GNCA, receiv­ing over $1.7 bil­lion in Hun­gar­i­an gov­ern­ment funds. The insti­tu­tion spon­sors events fea­tur­ing promi­nent US right-wing fig­ures while estab­lish­ing oper­a­tions in Brus­sels to influ­ence Euro­pean pol­i­cy­mak­ers. In announc­ing MCC Brus­sels, Balázs Orbán declared: “It is our goal for Hun­gary to become an intel­lec­tu­al pow­er­house.” For­eign Pol­i­cy reports that MCC has become cen­tral to Hun­gary’s efforts to build an army of Amer­i­can intel­lec­tu­als sym­pa­thet­ic to Orbán’s illib­er­al model.

Hun­gary has host­ed CPAC for four con­sec­u­tive years, trans­form­ing Budapest into what orga­niz­ers call the epi­cen­ter of the glob­al fight against glob­al­ism. These gath­er­ings bring togeth­er Amer­i­can con­ser­v­a­tives, includ­ing Don­ald Trump and Steve Ban­non, along­side Euro­pean far-right lead­ers to exchange tac­tics for insti­tu­tion­al cap­ture. MCC’s expan­sion across Europe high­lights its role in spread­ing illib­er­al ide­ol­o­gy, while Rus­si­a’s dimin­ished post-Ukraine role has ele­vat­ed Hun­gary as a poten­tial plat­form for Russ­ian infor­ma­tion war­fare with­in West­ern polit­i­cal discourse.

Exter­nal References:

• Why Hun­gary inspires U.S. con­ser­v­a­tives and populists
• Hun­gary’s Plan to Build an Army of Amer­i­can Intellectuals
• Hun­gary Test Dri­ves Vehi­cle to Cre­ate ‘Intel­lec­tu­al Powerhouse’

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