Hungary will block a planned 90-billion-euro (US$106-billion) European Union loan to Ukraine until the flow of Russian oil through the Druzhba pipeline resumes, Hungary’s foreign minister said.
Nobody is perfect and I don’t expect any politician to be. He’s for sure better than Orban and I would definitely vote for him if I was Hungarian, because I do believe in avoiding greater evils. That said, his positions on Ukraine or EU integration are far from ideal.
The article is worth looking for a paywall remover ;)
Please take it from a Hungarian, you don’t know how bad is it in there.
He is for tighter EU integration, and he is wishy-washy on Ukraine because he’s being called “Pete Ukrainian, the puppet of Brussels and Zelenskyy” by all radio channels, all but one TV channels, 70% of all billboards, every state news broadcast, every local newspaper and so on basically every 30 minutes for the past 2 years.
There is total media capture in Hungary by the government, and you can’t beat that if you let them dictate the topic of the day. The government wants the election to be about Ukraine and geopolitical 4D chess, Magyar wants it to be about rich people raping orphans and the total collapse of state services.
So we don’t talk about Ukraine. It fucking sucks. We also don’t talk about a lot of other very important topics.
Hungarians will have a new government in a few weeks. Ukraine just needs to outlast the election cycle.
I truly hope so, but…
it might turn out to be just a little bit less horrible.
Can you elaborate?
Several of the claims made by your paywalled article are just uncritical repetitions of misinformation peddled by the Orbán government.
Magyar is not perfect, but IDK why the FUD
Nobody is perfect and I don’t expect any politician to be. He’s for sure better than Orban and I would definitely vote for him if I was Hungarian, because I do believe in avoiding greater evils. That said, his positions on Ukraine or EU integration are far from ideal.
The article is worth looking for a paywall remover ;)
Please take it from a Hungarian, you don’t know how bad is it in there.
He is for tighter EU integration, and he is wishy-washy on Ukraine because he’s being called “Pete Ukrainian, the puppet of Brussels and Zelenskyy” by all radio channels, all but one TV channels, 70% of all billboards, every state news broadcast, every local newspaper and so on basically every 30 minutes for the past 2 years.
There is total media capture in Hungary by the government, and you can’t beat that if you let them dictate the topic of the day. The government wants the election to be about Ukraine and geopolitical 4D chess, Magyar wants it to be about rich people raping orphans and the total collapse of state services.
So we don’t talk about Ukraine. It fucking sucks. We also don’t talk about a lot of other very important topics.