• ByteJunk@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    This just hands over an EU country to the Russian and Chinese influences, which is why Hungary is where it’s at in the first place.

    This is the kind of thing that needs covert counter-ops: undermine and question orban at every online forum, constantly make Putin look bad, push against every single government policy, etc.

    So basically what they’re doing to every other western nation.

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      10 hours ago

      This just hands over an EU country to the Russian and Chinese influences

      Far too late for that. Orban is a Russian shill and should be treated accordingly.

      Few years outside of the EU, with closed borders and no new funds may cause Hungarians to proudly follow Romanian way with Orban ending like Caucescu.

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      7 hours ago

      So basically what they’re doing to every other western nation.

      You mean western nations’ government policies are all perfect and people pushing against them are Russian shills? And making their politicians look bad?

      Maybe those governments and politicians are Russia-infiltrated, and these complaints are resistance.

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        2 hours ago

        You say “maybe” like it’s some unknowable quantity, but we can see what is going on in Hungary and that it’s getting increasingly authoritarian, and we can see Russian attempts to influence western democracies through bot farms and the like. It’s not unknowable; the evidence is there.