BUDAPEST, March 5 (Reuters) - Hungary will force neighbouring Ukraine with "political and financial tools" to reopen the key Druzhba pipeline carrying Russian oil to Hungarian refineries, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Thursday.
BUDAPEST, March 5 (Reuters) - Hungary will force neighbouring Ukraine with "political and financial tools" to reopen the key Druzhba pipeline carrying Russian oil to Hungarian refineries, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Thursday.
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_Nico198X_@piefed.europe.pub · 49 pts · 192d
huppakee@piefed.social · 13 pts · 192d
It's so crazy he continues to play Putins friend and acts like Ukraine is the bad guy here.
_Nico198X_@piefed.europe.pub · 8 pts · 192d
aramis87@fedia.io · 6 pts · 192d
Hungary has parliamentary elections in six weeks. Right now his party controls parliament, but polls show the other party is likely to win. He's trying to preserve his control over the country.
huppakee@piefed.social · 4 pts · 192d
I'd like that, would likely do the whole of Hungary a lot of good
AlexLost@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 192d
You answered your own question with your statement. They are in GOP territory now with the cognitive dissonance
Tuuktuuk@nord.pub · 2 pts · 192d
He has no other choice.
Putin has made it clear to him that the photos they have of Orbán having an intercourse with an underage girl will be made public unless Orbán obeys.
marius@feddit.org · 29 pts · 192d
Fyi Russia destroyed it and when Ukraine tried to repair it, russia killed the workers during the repair. So maybe hungary should talk to someone else about the issue
real_squids@sopuli.xyz · 12 pts · 192d
Hungary (with Slovakia) also wanted to send their crews for inspection but uhh... you don't really want someone from a country like that poking around your infrastructure while you're at war so that proposal (understandably) got denied
jaxxed@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 192d
Let Hungarian engineers in to fix it?
real_squids@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 192d
Yeah just let putin's lapdogs snoop around your strategic infrastructure while you're at war, no biggie
Even if (big if) they want to fix it, are they paying? lol
If russia strikes the same spot again and hungarian crews die, would you want to be known as the one who sent them there? And would it really be worth it? A country at peace losing supposedly highly skilled civvies for a bunch of gas that financed their (and ukrainian) deaths doesn't sound great on a resume.
edit: repairing it would also be a political win for Orban and he's gonna repay by blocking help from EU as always, so it's probably better to wait
BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca · 23 pts · 192d
He better be gone in a couple weeks...
ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 192d
With this, Hungary is actively participating in a war crime. They have cut emergency electrical power amidst ongoing Russian attacks on Ukraine's civilian infrastructure. The other EU countries should capture and imprison him, as this constitutes an act of agression against an ally and a violation of human rights. Additionally they broke EU contracts, by lying about agreeing and then blocking it anyway.
stoicEuropean@lemmy.ml · 15 pts · 192d
At this point, Hungary is actively working against our interests. We desperately need a mechanism to exclude such dysfunct democraties / rogue member states from the bloc.
cron@feddit.org · 14 pts · 192d
What exactly does he mean? The article doesn't suggest a single thing.
Tarogar@feddit.org · 10 pts · 192d
3 day military special operation. Probably... Maybe just war on the side of Russia.
Tuuktuuk@nord.pub · 6 pts · 192d
He has no plan. He's just saying these words, hoping that somehow that might gain him votes.
totesmygoat@piefed.ca · 4 pts · 192d
Hmmm. Hey Ukraine. Any way to pump kyivs sewage through that pipeline? Just thinking it might be a better home for it.
MolochHorridus@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 192d
Death to Viktor Orban!
einkorn@feddit.org · 3 pts · 192d
Death is too easy for these people. Irrelevance, oblivion. That's purgatory on earth for them.
rapchee@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 192d
don't let perfect be the enemy of good
CaptObvious@literature.cafe · 1 pts · 192d
Only if they really can’t return to power.
Fishnoodle@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 192d
Ok. It will just get bombed mysteriously in a month or two. Be careful what you beg for, bitch.
rogsson@piefed.social · 4 pts · 192d
Ukraine needs to repair the pipe asap. Then redirect sewage water of the whole country to Orban. POS hope that asswipe leaves us soon.