In exchange for relenting, Hungary got EU officials to make a noncommittal statement on the importance of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure — an oblique reference to Budapest’s concerns about the end of Russian gas flowing through Ukraine.
Will one or the other of you stop with the cryptic Redwall geopolitics-riddles and just tell me what the fuck you’re talking about?
It sounds like you’re saying that Hungary got bribed to make this decision, in some way. Yes?
Edit: If you don’t feel like navigating the labyrinth of replies below, don’t bother. Neither of these people ever get to the point, and eventually they wander away, with one complaining that I “do not argue in good faith.”
The quote I gave is from the article you linked, if my comment is cryptic to you I’d suggest reading the article again? Orban threatened to veto unless Ukraine agreed to get the Russian gas flowing again, so the EU threw him a bone.
How does wanting some lip service to be inserted into the agreement, to at least ally to some performative degree Hungary’s concerns about where their energy is going to come from if it can’t be Russia, translate into “pockets full of cash”?
With the pockets full of cash.
Explain?
He allegedly got a deal of energy out of it.
Allegedly? By who?
Will one or the other of you stop with the cryptic Redwall geopolitics-riddles and just tell me what the fuck you’re talking about?
It sounds like you’re saying that Hungary got bribed to make this decision, in some way. Yes?
Edit: If you don’t feel like navigating the labyrinth of replies below, don’t bother. Neither of these people ever get to the point, and eventually they wander away, with one complaining that I “do not argue in good faith.”
The quote I gave is from the article you linked, if my comment is cryptic to you I’d suggest reading the article again? Orban threatened to veto unless Ukraine agreed to get the Russian gas flowing again, so the EU threw him a bone.
How does wanting some lip service to be inserted into the agreement, to at least ally to some performative degree Hungary’s concerns about where their energy is going to come from if it can’t be Russia, translate into “pockets full of cash”?
The “cash” is for his political career, not himself if course. Could have worded that better.
Don’t ask me, ask @Valmond@lemmy.world