“We don’t hate Ukraine. The problem is that the Ukrainian state hates Hungary, it has pursued an anti-Hungarian political approach for the last ten years. Ukraine behaves in a very hostile manner towards Hungary,” Szijjártó said.
“I’m not the bully, you are the bully! Words bounce off me and stick to you! Ha!”
“How does this war benefit me?” Hungary.
Isn’t Hungary like pro-Russian?
Yes.
But, it’s also a country that has been trying to gain territories from Ukraine and Romania for several decades already. In the end of World War I, Hungary had to let many of its old areas gain independence, and pockets of Hungarians ended up living in Romania. Then, during World War II, Soviet Union took parts of Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Romania. Poland was given parts of Germany as compensation, but Romania and Hungary got nothing to compensate – largely because they had been allied with Germany.
Hungary wants to undo the part of the peace agreement ending WWII that changed the ownership of the Zakarpattja area to Ukraine, and that has kept Hungary hostile to Ukraine.
Basically Hungary sees that it was unfair that its side lost the war in 1945 and wants that reversed. When the Russia attacked Ukraine, Orbán saw this as a way to “fixing” the “unfairness”.
And then there’s all the stuff that Orbán did with “women” sent to him by the Russians, using a network led by a certain J.E.
There are apparently videos or photos of him with his victims, and those are so damning that Orbán will anyways do anything to stop them from surfacing.I think more broadly he also is just allied with Putin, maybe those are the reasons he allied with him, but, under the model that Putin is exporting across the west. RW, fascisty parties that scapegoat others for problems running as reform, knowing the mainstream parties are both owned by the oligarchy and the gets worse every year, and just waits for his party to win, and then helps fix them in power, like Orban has been, subordinating the media, shutting down any opposition and non profits, and idk what all.
But it’s about to play out across europe, with the US helping covertly and overtly. Expect any private communications to be shared with those far right if it can help them for instance. Or any number of other fuckeries, and expect the far right to try and fix themselves in power every way they can. Hungary is one such template.
Orban is like Mussolini, he was purportedly a leftist that seemingly noticed if he championed the right he could take control.
@Tuuktuuk Also, when Ukraine enacted language laws to try to reduce ‘Russian’ influence, it had a side-effect on the Hungarian-speaking minority. This was taken personally by many Hungarians.
Except not that much in Ukraine. Hungarians in Hungary took it personally, and a fraction of Hungarians in Ukraine. But most Hungarians in Ukraine were on the same page as Kyiv on what the point of that law is.
But also: Yeah, the law was thoughtlessly formulated. It should not have hurt the minorities like that.
