cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18077343

While most European countries firmly back Ukraine, Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is seen as having comparatively close ties to Russia, prompting a war of words with Poland.

A diplomatic spat has erupted between Poland and Hungary that lays bare the deep tensions within Europe over how to deal with Russia as it continues its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

  • AllNewTypeFace
    17·
    2 months ago

    They’re not wrong. Orban would fit in better sitting next to Lukashenko and Kadyrov in Putin’s court, having jumped ship from the decadent West to the rising multipolar Eurasia of Duginist fever dreams. The problem for him is that his boss needs him the EU’s camp, sowing discord, far more than he could do with a new westernmost satellite state.