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But hopefully there will be follow through and Hungary starts making choices in its best interest and not Russia's.
You are deranged too if you think that Orban was working for Russia. He was trying to keep having russian oil and gas.
The new guy said the same.
Orban hated Green Goblin for cutting off russian oil and terrorizing hungarians in Ukraine.
 
What does that mean? You think that Trump might invade Hungary?
I neither know the thoughts of Trump or of Putin.
Orban leaving is good. The new guy... he leads a right-center party, so it isn't like Hungary are all of a sudden liberal territory. Not quite certain what will come out of this. But hopefully there will be follow through and Hungary starts making choices in its best interest and not Russia's.
Did Poroshenko prove lucky for Ukraine?
 
But hopefully there will be follow through and Hungary starts making choices in its best interest and not Russia's.
He'll certainly make nice with the EU. He is for adopting the EU currency. He is against fast tracking Ukraine into the EU. He is not outright opposed to Ukraine's ascension. He said Ukraine's candidacy for EU membership "does not correspond to the values, principles, or regulations of the European Union" so we can assume from this Hungary most definitely will. Magyar and Ursula von der Leyen are both members of the European People's Party so hopefully this brings a good working relationship.
Conservative and a bit nationalistic but head and shoulders above Orban.

And Orban didn't work for Russia in the same manner Lukashenko doesn't work for Russia.
 
What does that mean? You think that Trump might invade Hungary?
I neither know the thoughts of Trump or of Putin.
Orban leaving is good. The new guy... he leads a right-center party, so it isn't like Hungary are all of a sudden liberal territory. Not quite certain what will come out of this. But hopefully there will be follow through and Hungary starts making choices in its best interest and not Russia's.
Did Poroshenko prove lucky for Ukraine?

What an odd statement? Poroshenko is former PM of Ukraine. I don't think that he was particularly unlucky for Ukraine. What is your point?
 
Maybe this should be under "things that Trump did right".
Good luck with that.
My first impression of Donald the politician was god's gift to democrats.
I didn't realize how slow democrats are. Them nominating Hillary should have given me a clue.
Not slow. Owned. Politics is a show put on to amuse the middle class.


Presidential elections
Are planned distractions
To divert attention
From the action
Behind the scenes...

(Just Another Movie, Timbuk3, from the album Greetings from Timbuk3, 1986)
 
The new guy is just a younger version of Orban.
If they wanted an Orban they could have voted for an Orban.
They wanted younger version of Orban and voted for it.
Oh, and about that. Did you know 65% of under 30 y o voters in Hungary voted for Tisza/Magyar? Do you think they had “ younger version of Orban” in mind when they did so? Do you think Tisza/Magyar will stay in power if that is what they get? With Orban they got low wages, inflation, corruption, and failing healthcare and education systems. This is what people the world over will vote against every time.
Do not look past how tilted the playing field was for Fideaz/Orban in this election they lost. It showed every authoritarian around the world that rigging the system is not enough.
If Magyar turns out to be an Orban Mini Me, he had better be prepared to imprison and poison the opposition in order to stay in power.
I’m not worried about it though. I really think Magyar is sincere about being pro EU.
 
The new guy is just a younger version of Orban.
If they wanted an Orban they could have voted for an Orban.
They wanted younger version of Orban and voted for it.
Oh, and about that. Did you know 65% of under 30 y o voters in Hungary voted for Tisza/Magyar? Do you think they had “ younger version of Orban” in mind when they did so? Do you think Tisza/Magyar will stay in power if that is what they get? With Orban they got low wages, inflation, corruption, and failing healthcare and education systems. This is what people the world over will vote against every time.
Yes, Ursula fond of Lying made sure Orban had all that troubles.
Do not look past how tilted the playing field was for Fideaz/Orban in this election they lost.
Actually it was tilted for Magyar. It just how gerrymandering works. You risk crashing defeat in order to have crashing victory.

It showed every authoritarian around the world that rigging the system is not enough.
US invented gerrymandering.
If Magyar turns out to be an Orban Mini Me, he had better be prepared to imprison and poison the opposition in order to stay in power.
I’m not worried about it though. I really think Magyar is sincere about being pro EU.
Don't expect much change.
 
Péter Magyar sounds like what a really bad author would come up with to name their generic Hungarian character.
On initial thought this seems so. but consider that there are people with the surnames England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. Also English, Scott, Welsh, and Irish.
I could see a bad mystery writer naming a character Sir Stamford England of Wales, too.
 
Politics is a show put on to amuse the middle class.
That it is, almost by definition. We should remain mindful of the reasons why the amusement of the middle class is obligatory.
I really think Magyar is sincere about being pro EU.
That will turn on a dime if the pressure and enticements brought to bear by Uncle Vlad exceed the immediate benefits of courting the EU.
By all repute afaics, the new guy is every bit the opportunist that the old guy was.
 
That it is, almost by definition. We should remain mindful of the reasons why the amusement of the middle class is obligatory.
All capitalist systems require the complicity of the middle class to reinforce social stratification from the middle. When affluent workers come to see themselves generally as part of a broader proletariat whose needs are at odds with those of capitalists, states tend to descend into chaos for a while. It is a truth much older than capitalism itself, but Trump and his cronies aren't great students of history and don't really understand what they are risking by eroding the well-being and goodwill of the phylactery class.
 
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