Hungary blocks €50bn of EU funding for Ukraine

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Hungary and Ukraine share a border.

Imagine, there is someone shooting rockets in your neighbour country a few miles away from your border and you just don't care..

One could say your reaction is strongly dependent on your relation to the one shooting rockets.
Hungary wants Russia as a neighbor
- i dont think so. Orban wants to play the Russians, Chinese and EU to whatever is current opportunities are.
  
  The problem with this kind of balancing act is, that it erodes your support much faster than choosing one side and sticking with them. But the EU wants some minimum level of democracy and efforts to hide corruption that Orban doesnt want to abide by. But i am sure he full well knows that the Russians would chew him up and fart him out, if they get the chance to.
- And Russia wants West-Germany as a neighbor...............
There is a non-negligible amount of revisionists in Hungary that would prefer to shoot rockets from Hungary's side as well and take territory from Ukraine.
Are we forgetting the very start of the war, when the Hungarian rhetoric was "we need to go to the region that is 'disputed' by Hungary to protect Hungarians from the evil Russia"?

That Ukrainian guy that hit that Dutch fascist, Thierry Baudet, on the head with an umbrella needs to come in and cave Orban’s skull in with a beach umbrella.

Can’t we just boot them from the fucking Union, all he does is mooch EU funds to build his private domain modeled after russia, or obstruct something everyone else wants to extort more money while his whole domestic politics play is to shit on the EU.

boot them

Is that what the Kremlin wants?
- No. They can do more damage from the inside.

Orban needs a nice vacation.

He practically owns Hungary. I think the country would deserve a long holiday from Orban and his party.
Out of a window.
- Defenestration Nation!
Don't you think he look tired?

Send orban to the russian front, where he belongs.

Why not use those requirements he asks for Ukraine to join the EU on Hungary too? No to oligarchs, no to corruption, no to lack of democratic structures would bounce back on him and his oligarchic friends. Fix it, Victor or leave the EU!

Bro can we finally kill orban?

I really hope that with Tusk leading Poland now, we finally are going to some real pressure be exerted onto the Orban regime at least.

Alternatively, silencing Orban by other means is fine by me as well.
- Bro just send him a letter covered in Anthrax or something like that.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The aid blocking was announced by Mr Orban shortly after the EU leaders decided to open membership talks with Ukraine and Moldova and to grant candidate status to Georgia.

At a news briefing in the early hours of Friday, Mr Michel confirmed that all but one EU leaders had agreed on the aid package and wider budget proposals for the bloc - although Sweden still needed to consult its parliament.

Last week, President Zelensky's wife, Olena, warned in a BBC interview that Ukrainians were in "mortal danger" of being left to die if Western countries did not continue their financial support.

White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan welcomed the EU's "historic" move to open accession talks with Ukraine and Moldova, calling it a "crucial step toward fulfilling their Euro-Atlantic aspirations".

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz praised his fellow leaders for showing a "strong sign of support", adding that it was clear that both Ukraine and Moldova belonged to "the European family".

Earlier on Thursday, President Vladimir Putin mocked Ukraine and claimed Western support was running out: "Excuse my vulgarity, but everything is being brought in as a freebie.

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Such a punchable face.

Orban is such a collassal jackass

Just an excuse for the EU member state leaders who could send help individually by country and are failing to do so.

As an American, growing up I used to think so highly of Europe and their better socialist policies (I even wanted to move there), but honestly their spinelessness when dealing with dictatorships has really disillusioned me. Say what you will about the US military-industrial complex, or even how capricious our current aid situation is with Ukraine, but even when our international policy is clearly wrong or misguided, I do think we move forward with real conviction unlike Europe...
- Oh yeah, with Trump and all for the past few years, that was a real show of "moving forward" and it was nothing like a "dictatorship" even.
  
  The amount of irony in your comment is off the chart, you need a self check.
- The EU has neoliberalism written into its constitution. It's not socialist, at most a few member nations have some social democracy. Though even that has been shrinking and replaced by privitization and austerity.
- It's more important to move forward with conviction, even if the direction is clearly wrong? Well, that's why living in the US would be my worst nightmare. Is this funny mindest widespread?
- Also as an American: that’s not a thing to brag about. Sticking to your guns when it becomes evident that your strategy is not going to work is called “sunk cost fallacy”. It’s not good.
  
  Edit:
  
  To clarify, I wholeheartedly and enthusiastically support assisting Ukraine, and I wish our government shared that sentiment. I’m simply pointing out that the War on Terror was a HUGE demonstration of the sunk cost fallacy over the course of over 20 years. Similarly, unflinchingly supporting the Israeli government’s extremely hawkish handling of pretty much every aspect of how they interact with Palestinians is also an example of the sunk cost fallacy, and I’m starting to get really fucking concerned that it’s going to cost Biden the election in 2024, which would be bad for everyone all over the world in a myriad of fascinating and terrible ways… and also, very obviously extremely bad for Ukraine - I would actually not be surprised, if Trump manages to win, that he actually starts to throw in with Putin. Trump fucking hates Zelenskyy, because Zelenskyy refused to submit to Trump’s blackmail and didn’t help Trump’s continued attempts to fuck with our own electoral process.
  
  Additionally, apologies for dragging in so many loosely related issues, but the truth of the matter is that American politics muddles all this crap up into a giant cesspool, and that’s what we have to deal with as citizens.