JD Vance arrives in Hungary to back Orbán's re-election bid
(www.bbc.com)
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from 8oow3291d@feddit.dk to world@lemmy.world on 07 Apr 14:02
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Last month, Trump said Orbán had his “complete and total support” in a video message to the Hungarian Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Budapest.
On Sunday Orbán faces Péter Magyar, a former insider in the prime minister’s Fidesz party, who broke with him two years ago to found the centre-right Tisza party.
Tisza leads Fidesz by between 10% and 20% in most polls. Only the strongly pro-government Nézőpont agency puts Fidesz narrowly ahead.
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Hungary is Putin’s lapdog, effectively supports Russia in Ukraine and sabotages the EU from within. As well as Victor Orban being the enemy of basic democratic norms.
The Trump administration literally sees the EU as their enemy. Trump wants to break up the EU because the EU is strong enough to protect EU members against Trump. Trump wants Europe to be a weaker group of small countries, that Trump can individually exploit in one-sided trade deals. The Trump administration hates Democracy, and hates us.
Europe should kick america out of NATO✌️
Couch Guyliner doing his best to destroy democracy everywhere. Not that this is news for any of us.
And we’'ll remember it.
America first means stumping for fascist leaders halfway around the world apparently.
So fuck Vance, but it seems to be perfectly consistent with America First?
For Trump “America First” means exploiting other countries. If Vance can get an exploitable government elected in Hungary, then why wouldn’t it be good for “America First”?
It is a stated goal for Trump to break up the EU. To be able to force one-side trade deals with weaker isolated countries instead. Victor Orban is the person doing most to sabotage the EU. Hence it is in “America First”'s interest for Orban to be reelected.
Gavrilo Princip, where art thou?
I’m trying to imagine Mohammad bin Salman or Kim Ju Ae going on a “re-elect President Trump” tour of the US. I can’t imagine it would be received well by either party. Can’t imagine why JD thinks this is a good idea. Maybe I’m just not that good at imagining.
Yeah, send the couch fucker, that’ll surely get the people out to vote.
I’m hoping it will…for Orbán’s opponent Péter Magyar.
How do conservatives in America not put all the puzzle pieces together?
Orban says he will be a servant to Russia JD Vance serves Orban
Russia is giving intelligence to Iran, attacking Ukraine.
Like come on people, do I need to make a flow chart for the dum dums in the back?
MAGAts are either too stupid or don’t care because they’re getting what they want.
While at the same time blaming the EU for meddling with the election
politico.eu/…/us-jd-vance-slams-eu-brussels-burea…
America First as defined by Trump explicitly means “We can fuck with you, you can’t fuck with us”. They are not hiding it or packaging it in moral terms of universal ethics or the golden rule.
So there is no “gocha” moment here. Trump explicitly doesn’t think EU countries are his equal, so appealing to hypocrisy is meaningless. Trump is doing exactly what he said he would do.
Seems an odd choice for the second highest executive branch sycophant when the boss is planning to annihilate and entire civilization in a few hours. What exactly does he do as vice president that gives him this sort of free time? Why are we paying for this?