In an address to Hungary’s national assembly yesterday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán argued that successive European crises from financial meltdowns to pandemics and now war have been leveraged by Brussels to accelerate the creation of a federal “United States of Europe.” The Hungarian Prime Minister framed the conflict in Ukraine not only as a tragedy but also as a political turning point. Orbán called on Hungarians to confront what he called the EU’s “crisis-driven power grab.”