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It is corruption. The entire Hungarian state has been captured by Orban's mafia. ("Mafia" is not an exaggeration. Hungarian state capture works exactly like the
by abiro 5y ago
It is corruption. The entire Hungarian state has been captured by Orban's mafia. ("Mafia" is not an exaggeration. Hungarian state capture works exactly like the Russian with natural resources replaced by EU money.)
- heavenlyblue 5y agoThis is a way better situation that natural resources because EU can always stop giving that money once it is unhappy with what Hungary does, but it would not be able to take away natural resources.
- abiro 5y agoThey started the incredibly expensive and wasteful Paks II nuclear plant extension program financed by Russian loans to diversify the EU faucet. (Although that deals seems to be collapsing now with the war).
- eptcyka 5y agoPart of Russia's MO in it's former soviet sattelites is to give them cheap loans to increase their influence in those territories.
- hdjjhhvvhga 5y agoAnd now we discovered they used similar tactics for the whole Europe: we sell you cheap gas so that you develop total dependence on us and disregard supply chain diversification as it makes no economic sense... until it's too late.
- eptcyka 5y agoIf Russia wasn't a dictatorship, it'd be normal to be reliant on your neighbors, as this usually helps with keeping peace. It doesn't work when the neighbor in question has no intention of remaining peaceful.
- xiphias2 5y agoIt is way better until Orban leaves the EU and NATO and leaves my sense of security and my EU passport away. I'm travelling around the world usually and spend only 5 months in Hungary in a year, but I'm getting closer to officially moving to another EU country.