I guess I’ll find a different comm more suited to content like this then, thanks for the heads-up.

I’ll be honest, I expected better from the Guardian.

I could write a small novel about important and relevant facts being omitted or pussyfooted around, but the main points are:

• Just a day before this story, there was a leak in the Hungarian military where a speech of the Minister of Defense was taped in 2023 that the then-recent purge - forced retirement - of military leaders was so that the military could be transformed from a “peace mentality” to a “war mentality” and that “we have to go Phase 0 of the path to war”.
• The spies were found to be collecting intelligence on specific questions, notably how “a Hungarian peacekeeping force occupying the Transcarpathia region would be received by the local civilian populace, the local law enforcement and the local military”.
• The Orbán government is not “neutral” with respect to Russia. They have been actively funding Russia from Hungarian taxpayer money by buying Russian gas over world market prices. They have said that the 1956 revolution in Hungary was “unwise”, implying there is no point in trying to defend against a Russian invasion. The Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs - guy with the big forehead enthusiastically called the Cockatiel in Hungary - received the Friendship medal, the highest non-military commendation in Russia just four years ago.
• The Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs claimed there was a plan together with Orbán, Putin and Kaczyński that would have had Hungarian and Polish peacekeepers occupy Western Ukraine after Russia claims the Eastern half.

I know the Guardian is trying to be non-sensationalist, but in the past few days, a literal decade happened in Hungarian politics.

I know you are not malicious, but conflating Hungary, the will of the Hungarian people and the actions of the Orbán government is the cornerstone of Orbán’s propaganda. Please don’t do it.

The actual Hungarian people overwhelmingly support Ukraine and its defense, and would like to see it as an EU member. When the Russian total offensive started in 2022, people in Hungary were getting in their cars, packing them full of groceries, and driving hundreds of kilometres to the Ukrainian border to help refugees, with exactly zero prompting or help or even acknowledgement from the government.

I barely know anything about the conflict, but this comment section is wild.

Isn’t that why JD Vance is there?

I’m talking about Trump because there is a strong parallelism between all of these cases, where fascists break the law and then cry political persecution when the courts apply the law to them.

Trump was the example of what not to do, Le Pen seems to be the example of what works.

I get where you are coming from, and I very much agree that wringing our hands is not the good solution. I very much hope that the German government has a better plan to handle this than the plans they had to handle literally anything else in the past 30 years.

I share your frustration, I’m just saying that this is harder and less straightforward than Trump was. It has to be done, and has to be done soon though. But it has to be decisive and final.

The process is very dangerous, for real. It’s not like Trump where the crime is in the open, numbering in the thousands, and growing.

And it is very much a political crime, but it is still a crime, being against democracy is a crime. But it is much harder to prosecute than all the shit Trump did. And if they get it wrong, AfD will most likely get a boost from it big enough to get into government.

Who the hell uses social media while at work that’s limited to your work I wonder.

They are more alike than they are different to normal people.

That’s unfair, sometimes it’s not a far right individual but a far right organization.

I think Gaza is not a money issue. The money that’s already there, the aid that’s already there waiting on the border would be able to do infinite good already.

This is actually good for two things:

• calls attention to the issue in a way that pierces more bubbles than another Al Jazeera article
• will call special attention to it again when Israel will inevitably blow it up

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I’m not saying that the 40s-60s was the best time to live in the US, I’m saying that the other way around, in the 40s-60s the US was the best place to live in.

So yeah, for example Asian women might have had real problems, even get put into internment camps in the US, but at least they weren’t mass raped like on the Eastern European or Asian fronts.

So that’s a load bearing comparatively.

comrades, workers and peasants of the glorious union /s

Don’t need to even go that far, US police regularly execute random people on the street as well.

I mean there were major race riots in the 90s.

I think it’s more like there were places in the US where it was fine for some people, and those bubbles are getting cracked by the constant Trump bullshit.

Maybe between the 40s and the 60s the US was the best place to be comparatively, but that was mostly because we managed to burn and bomb literally everything else.

It had to be me. Someone else might have gotten it wrong.

It would definitely cost more than that to restore it after that dip.

If I was the US, I’d even send some depth charges after it to make sure the Chinese don’t go fishing.

An actual A2A kill with a Shahed on an F18 would be way bigger news. As would a hit on the carrier. What else could be the way it happened?