• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    This seizure appears in response to a gas pipeline that Ukraine destroyed during the war.

    The price shock from the Iran War is driving people to do desperate things in order to stay in power. You can get mad at Orban for being a POS. But he’s not the prime mover here. This is all downwind of Israel/US closing the Straight of Hormuz.

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      24 hours ago

      Lol Russia destroying a pipeline in Ukraine doesn’t make Ukraine responsible for their shit. Orban is a fucking russian asset, and noone believes in anything his compromised ass spouts.

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        Orban is a fucking russian asset

        He’s more bound up in American geopolitics. But then Americans keep smelling shit, then blaming foreigners for the load in their pants.

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          Whatever his interaction is with American politics, I dont think you can blame everything Orban does on Americans. And would it surprise you to know that every fellow American I know hates and mistrusts their government? To be fair, all of the people I spend energy associating with are strongly progressive.

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            I dont think you can blame everything Orban does on Americans

            Sure. He’s got a huge network of domestic supporters who are along for the ride.

            Every fellow American I know hates and mistrusts their government? To be fair, all of the people I spend energy associating with are strongly progressive.

            Will you distrust the government when it flips back to Dem control?

            Obama currently has a 90% approval among liberals. It doesn’t seem like they’ve learned anything.

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            10 hours ago

            Orban is a fucking FSB puppet

            He came up through US anti-communist front groups and has turned his country out to Silicon Valley goons and evangelical reactionaries.

            So had Putin, at least during the War on Terror era.

            They’ve been peas in a pod under every Republican administration since Bush 41. At best, you could describe them as Rogue Assets, assuming you ignored how often they work to benefit American industry.

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          14 hours ago

          Ok now provide sources that proof he has more to do with the US than Russia in politics.

          (while he fucks over the EU all of the time)

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      I count on you to connect all evils back to the US. Sometimes the lines are less clear.