What's really interesting here is that the european right seems to be able to hold some extremly important position, namely indipendence from NATO. I was totally left down when my party, brothers of italy, managed to switch side (i know, a very infamous italian strategy) and support zelensky in the ongoing war. I was upset not only because i know for a fact that the vast majority of the party's base actually sides with russia, but because i was supecting that also the electoral base shared the same feeling, while the society al large was just worried about russian gas. Every poll taken since the war basically confirm my position: 54% of italians oppose sanction against Russia and strongly oppose the idea of sending weapons to ucranians. 20-30% won't answer the question, and only and asbolute minority of about 1/3 is ok with sending small weapons. Literally no one want to send big weapons or direct intervention.

What's the connection with Orban? Orban was able to hold some ground aganist the global-capitalistic left and not cutting every tie with the Russian Federation. He basically was the only right-wing european politician able to see trought the sovereignty lenses which informed the last 10 years of out political history. While i still think that the sovereignty movement was a big win by our side (which i credit mostly to the italian and french radical right, that were able to provide some keyword to the mainstream right), it is not enough anymore. It was never enough. Sovereignty was an useful framework, a gymnasium where to exercise the national auto-determination; but it was wrongly directed againts Europe. In the wake of a multi-polar world, which is now reality despite the histerical screaming of the american deep state, we are now called for a european sovereignty movement. We are tasked with the historical mission of creating an european nation, an european identity and an european state. That cannot happend without multilateralism between Russian, China - and even America. But we should keep in mind that is Russia, and not America, the closest civilization in terms of values, race, religion and history. We should never try to cut Russia outside of Europe, because that would mean total european surrender to the NATO-american empire.

Orban was always a close ally of the italian and french parlamentary extreme right, so we can hope that those parties will adopt the Hungarian stance in the following years. In the wake of re-militarization of Europe, we have yet to see a coherent mainstream nationalist party in Germany: maybe they will be able to study the Hungarian lesson and develope one. But anyway, point is that, despite the obvius needing of our parties to side with Ucraine in that war, there is hope for a europeanist right able to hold his ground against america and against Russia. With enough time we could also hope to integerate the Euroasian union in the UE, if we manage to create an european superstate. But right now we must integrate our heartland countries and get the military we desperately need. While America is retreating from the global stage (as she prepares the fight with China), Europe must step in as the regional superpower. We can't do anything like that if we are plagued with NATO shills. But this election clearly show that a different Europe is possible.

NB: while siding with Le Pen for obvious reasons, i don't think she'll be able to win. But we must not discard Macron so swiftly. If he win, he would be in the political position to advance the project of an european army. That would be a very important milestone for us, expecially since the most americanized european country, England, is no more part of the union.