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Zelenskiy accuses Viktor Orbán of betraying Europe at leaders’ meeting in UK
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 18 Jul 2024
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Not to insult people of Hungary but how come this moron is on the world stage . When well at least unbeknowist to me Hungary has not done anything.
Orban, being the contrarian that he is, finds friends in those that seek to undermine european and western unity. Russia, China and Trump fall into that category. Ukraine is forced to host Orban, because he is the biggest roadblock amongst Ukrainian allies for more aid. And Hungary has taken over the presidency of the council of the European Union, which rotates every six months.
As for why Orban is president of Hungary: Corruption and propaganda. Orban controls the big media institutions and has all other press harassed. He has control over the judiciary and a wide net of sympathisers both within and without the government. He is as close to being a dictator as the EU will let him and he keeps testing the waters to strengthen his control further.
A large hungarian voter base is as loyal to him as MAGAites are to Trump.
To be specific, voters that are loyal to him are also those coincidentally that are poor, undereducated, not from Budapest or one of the other major cities and also consume terrestrial television and radio.
In short:
An organization that can not expel or censure members for bad faith acts is doomed to fail.
Nobody really expected global politics going down the drain as it does, either - just as South Park production stopped because there was no sense in parodizing reality when it's weirder than what they could come up with