• zout
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    124 days ago

    In exchange for relenting, Hungary got EU officials to make a noncommittal statement on the importance of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure — an oblique reference to Budapest’s concerns about the end of Russian gas flowing through Ukraine.

    • @PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catOPM
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      24 days ago

      Will one or the other of you stop with the cryptic Redwall geopolitics-riddles and just tell me what the fuck you’re talking about?

      It sounds like you’re saying that Hungary got bribed to make this decision, in some way. Yes?

      Edit: If you don’t feel like navigating the labyrinth of replies below, don’t bother. Neither of these people ever get to the point, and eventually they wander away, with one complaining that I “do not argue in good faith.”

      • zout
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        324 days ago

        The quote I gave is from the article you linked, if my comment is cryptic to you I’d suggest reading the article again? Orban threatened to veto unless Ukraine agreed to get the Russian gas flowing again, so the EU threw him a bone.

        • @PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catOPM
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          024 days ago

          How does wanting some lip service to be inserted into the agreement, to at least ally to some performative degree Hungary’s concerns about where their energy is going to come from if it can’t be Russia, translate into “pockets full of cash”?

          • @Valmond
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            124 days ago

            The “cash” is for his political career, not himself if course. Could have worded that better.

            • @PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catOPM
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              124 days ago

              So he’s trying to do popular things, in this case by being slightly cautious about the energy supply for his country on behalf of his constituents, and you summarized that decision with “pockets full of cash”? “Cash” meaning his political career. Have I misunderstood something?

              • @Valmond
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                124 days ago

                Slightly cautious?

                He’s a massive POS and blackmails things like this out of the EU, usually using vile ways like this one. Or do you think he legitimately thought Lukachenko won the “election”?

                • @PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catOPM
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                  124 days ago

                  It is incredibly difficult to get you and the other person to explain what you mean.

                  Can you simply explain what you mean by “things like this”? And “vile ways like this one”?

                  • @Valmond
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                    124 days ago

                    I feel you do not argue in good faith.

                    Look up Orban in the news the last 3-4 years if you are sincerely interested.

          • zout
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            124 days ago

            Don’t ask me, ask @Valmond@lemmy.world

            • @PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catOPM
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              024 days ago

              I did, and for some reason, you answered. So you weren’t trying to answer the question “Allegedly by who?” when you replied to that question?

              I’m sorry if I seem prickly about it, but vague insinuations of corruption which then evaporate into silence or deflections when questioned even slightly seem like kind of a bad-faith thing to throw around. Right?