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Spectacularly corrupt:

Obviously, Ukraine does not want to allow Russian oil flowing through Ukraine to Hungary, while Viktor Orbán is working against Ukraine in the EU.

But being about to lose the Hungarian elections on April 12, a desperate Orbán now seizes two armored bank trucks owned by a Ukrainian bank, travelling from Vienna to Kiev, carrying $40 million, €35 million, and 9 kg gold.

While we are trying to defeat Russia, Orbán is now stealing from Ukraine.

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Orbán’s government presents this as if Hungary is stopping Ukrainian money laundering. But there is just one problem: If Ukraine was laundering money in Ukraine, that money would go out of Ukraine to buy assets in the EU. But the seized money and gold was travelling from Austria to Ukraine.

In a war, the economy runs on foreign cash, as people realize that the banking systems are often unavailable. And as Ukraine runs a huge trade deficit, it keeps running out of cash, hence the trucks.

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Práger Nándor

In connection with these events, the Hungarian government has just submitted a draft law, which could further deepen the conflicts. Bill T/13783 uses the seizure as a pretext for retroactive legislation. It creates a loophole to probe past transactions and authorizes secret surveillance of the opposition under 'national security.' This appears to be a 'two birds with one stone' move: addressing a crime while potentially legalizing political monitoring for partisan gain.
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Djembro, RO, supports 🇺🇦🇬🇪

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Unfortunately, Slovakia’s Fico has vowed to carry on obstructing anything the EU tries to do for Ukraine, even if—especially if— Orbán loses. Maybe the EU will invoke Article 7 against Slovakia. They’ve been loathe to invoke it against Hungary for fear of meddling in their election.
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There are elections in a month in Hungary, and Orban’s polls are significantly down. We are trying to kick him out, but this is exactly why he is doing such things. He’s doing all sorts of nasty tricks to scare people and make them believe there is huge threat coming from Ukraine attacking us -> people would be afraid to vote for change.
There are reports of possible “fake bombing” event could happen soon, where they plant and find a bomb and say it was from Ukraine.
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Somehow it's not part of the charter/rules of the EU either. 🤨
The lack of selfcontrolling/-adjusting(!) mechanisms in such Confederations of States and even in democracies themselve are astonishing.
So once you're "on top" or "in" you can do what ever you want. Which means apparently nothing less than an immanent/built in selfdestruction. An institutional timebomb as soon as someone reckless comes into power.
Yay.
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orban's 3D chess:

1. Won in 2022 despite being ~3% down in the polls 'cuz of his fast propaganda response to russia attacking ukraine ~1mo prior: He postured as the "peace candidate" best equipped to deal w/ international crises
2. Now down ~10% in the polls w/ a much more robust opponent, his only effective campaign move was fear-mongering against Ukraine. He claims ukraine will attack hungary soon, so they hijacked the money to provoke a response from ukraine to prop up their story

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