- cross-posted to:
- worldnews@lemmit.online
- cross-posted to:
- worldnews@lemmit.online
Volodymyr Zelenskiy has taken aim at the Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orbán, accusing him of betraying fellow European leaders after Orbán’s recent “peace mission” to Moscow.
The Ukrainian president kicked off the European Political Community summit at Blenheim Palace on Thursday with an emotional speech in which he made veiled but repeated references to Orbán’s recent attempts to get close to Moscow.
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He told the session: “We have maintained unity in Europe by acting together, which means that Putin has missed his primary targets … This is our advantage, but it remains an advantage only as long as we are united.”
Referring to Putin, he said: “He may try to approach you, or go to some of your partners individually, trying to tempt or pressure you to blackmail you so that one of you betrays the rest. We keep our unity.”
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.