> Why is the US administration helping Russia and client regimes of Russia to undermine the EU?

Undermining and destroying the competition by all means available is a thing. Nationalism is a contagious disease that has to start somewhere in order to infect the real target in the future.

Russian nationalism has been fertilized and watered for most of the last 150 years, naturally Russia is now being used as patient zero, Orban and some others follow down the line. The Russian brand is heavily anti-European and anti-Slavic, it's the political vehicle driving the war in Urkaine.

The EU is walking a fine line here, pushing post-modern on Orban, or any other EU country, serves only as a stimulant to native nationalism - that's the real force that can break the EU and start another age of European wars. Don't be surprised that the native nutzis are getting support from abroad, it's good business for the latter.

> And the most odd thing, why isn't the media asking this directly and openly?

They ask only what they're paid to ask, money talks is nothing new.