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[–] MolecularCactus1324@lemmy.world 85 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (3 children)

Evict Hungary from the EU and NATO

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 4 points 17 hours ago

I don't think there's any need to evict it to pressure it to vote the right way.

So Hungary blocking things is a collective performance.

Or maybe not, then the leverage they gain from veto is more than the pressure put at them. In such case that leverage is apparently damn big and they are a small country.

[–] FelixCress@lemmy.world 10 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 8 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

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.

[–] FelixCress@lemmy.world 17 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Why are you crossing out China?

Did you miss the massive investments China is doing there, to buy influence?

Here's one: https://www.businessinsider.com/satellite-photos-show-byds-massive-hungary-factory-taking-shape-2025-4

[–] FelixCress@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Why are you crossing out China?

Because Orban is Putin's puppet, irrespectively of any Chinese investment.

[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

He who sucketh a dick can accommodate a second one.

[–] Honytawk@feddit.nl 2 points 16 hours ago

Lose one, gain multiple.

It isn't as big an issue as you make it out to be.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world -2 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] FishFace@lemmy.world 4 points 12 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.

[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

This is the sort of stupidification of issues that we see from bot farms: cherry pick one point, then blow it out of proportion so that there's no more nuance, no more gray, no room for middle ground.

Everything becomes black and white, polarised, simple: with us or against us.

Fucking moron.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 1 points 26 minutes ago

You are literally saying "fucking moron" to something you imagined yourself and I didn't write.

You are right.

[–] Green_Mouse@piefed.social 3 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

I think if it comes to that, the Hungarian people will be VERY pissed off.

[–] makyo@lemmy.world 13 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Honestly they should already be VERY pissed off

[–] Bravo@eviltoast.org 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Orbán does just enough for farmers to keep them voting for him. Keeping Ukraine out of the EU is part of that - if Ukraine were a member, Hungarian wheat prices would plummet.

[–] Green_Mouse@piefed.social 3 points 16 hours ago

It's so selfish and low...

[–] XenGi@feddit.org 13 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Should have voted differently then.

[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 4 points 19 hours ago

That's their problem.