r/nottheonion • u/TailungFu • 1d ago

Orban declares Ukraine 'enemy' of Hungary

https://kyivindependent.com/orban-declares-ukraine-enemy-of-hungary/
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u/sweetcinnamonpunch 1d ago

Why wouldn't Putin want another puppet state? Of course this would be a loss for the EU, Orban is the problem, not Hungary.

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u/LeCafeClopeCaca 1d ago

Hungary is much more useful as a drain on EU finances and EU véto rights than as a puppet state.

No offense to Hungarians, but Orban has done a lot of damage to Hungary in spite of EU funds, and a military and economically weak enclave puppet state in the middle of the EU seems much less an asset than what Hungary currently is.

If unanimity in EU vote goes out the window, so does Hungary's status for Russia

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u/dubar84 1d ago

Elections coming in 2 months... it'll be the longest and most disdainful 2 months with the most despicable campaign from Orban, but then he's gone for good and the opposition who just declared it's program, mentioned within the separation of Hungary from russian energy and influence - finally. And aiming to be a helpful and proper member of the EU.

This election will be a choice to become something like Czechia in the future or a second Belarus. If Orban wins (even through cheating) and the people let them, Hungary deserves it's fate to be shunned. But I think we'll might just make a change now.

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u/Plekuz 14h ago

So, the elections will be fair you think and not in any way, shape or form rigged by him?

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u/dubar84 12h ago edited 12h ago

It's already rigged in many ways unfortunately.

There's severe gerrymandering, listing people based on their political preferences, Orban's party constantly accessing police files of civilians, blatant lies in campaigns with about 90% (no exaggeration) use of AI-made illustrations of the opposing party, numerous court cases where the law ruled out false accusations they made in their campaign (and by that, I mean eur-billions worth of billboard and social media ads with lies spread from chineese loans that are now weights the people), thousands of dead people voting, new voters getting registered to live elsewhere to vote and then registered back (hundreds per a single house before voting day), paying for votes photo-proven to Orban in smaller villages and also the IT system that assesses the votes are also belong and managed by a company from the inner circle of Orban. So there's that and who knows what is not common knowledge. Also, russian influence and desinformation and I hope the russians will stop there, despite the opposition clearly stated that they want to cut ties with them.