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While MAGA faces challenges at home, Rubio seeks to export it abroad
This explains Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s mission this week to bolster Hungary’s pro-Russia Prime Minister Viktor Orbán ahead of April’s general election. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán attends a joint press conference with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Budapest, Hungary, on Monday, February 16. He’s had good relations with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, and sometimes Macron, despite being closer ideologically to Reform and the National Rally. And he’s friendly with Italy’s populist Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni despite her strong support for the European Union that he disdains. Last week, he escalated his campaign for the lifting of the criminal threat over his friend Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Source: Egypt Independent February 17, 2026 11:32 UTC
