Donald Trump won’t give ‘a penny’ to Ukraine if elected, Orbán says ( www.politico.eu )

Hungarian leader praised Republican front-runner as a “man of peace.”

Donald Trump will totally stop funding Ukraine if he wins the U.S. election in November, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said following a meeting between the right-wing figureheads.

“He will not give a penny in the Ukraine-Russia war,” Orbán told Hungarian state media Sunday. “Therefore, the war will end, because it is obvious that Ukraine can not stand on its own feet.”

The longtime allies met last Friday at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, a summit which was lambasted by U.S. President Joe Biden.

PoliticallyIncorrect ,
@PoliticallyIncorrect@lemmy.world avatar

Fuck Ukraine!!

halvar ,

As I Hungarian I must say, that he only gets elected because he has a very strong grip on the media over here and most of the civilized peole I know hate the guy a lot.
So dear lemmings, don't criticize my beautiful country would you

Che_Donkey ,
@Che_Donkey@lemmy.ml avatar

Ah, Hungary, the Alabama of the EU

nutsack ,

I can't believe there's still minting pennies that shit is a scam

ArcaneGadget ,

Go fall from a 10th story balcony, onto a pair of bullets Orbán. You fucking traitorous piece of shit.

lipilee ,

Yeah, fuck that guy.
("Which one?" "Yes.")

Assman ,
@Assman@sh.itjust.works avatar

it is obvious that Ukraine can not stand on its own feet

- head of NATO and EU member state

BrokenGlepnir ,

It's also a country that was on the wrong side of 2 world wars. Not the senior power, and as part of a larger country one of the times, but still in the wrong side.

Ghostalmedia ,
@Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world avatar

Ahh yes. The same “peace” that would have fallen upon France and the UK if they just let Hitler take their land.

Thief_of_Crows ,

Comparing Putin to Hitler is absurd. Get better comparisons. Not every war is a threat to global peace, and acting like it is minimalizes the things that actually are. Just because you dislike that he's trying to take a small sliver of Ukraine which voted to secede from Ukraine, doesn't make him after global domination.

Hyperreality ,

he’s trying to take a small sliver of Ukraine which voted to secede from Ukraine

He just wants access to the port in Sevastopol, he just wants Crimea, he just wants a bit of Eastern Ukraine...

Peace in our time!

cynar ,

While Chamberlain was applying appeasement, he was also rapidly upgrading the UK's military capability.

He then fell on his own (proverbial) sword, to let Churchill take power.

Don't compare these Muppets to a politician who actually did what he could to slow the wolves down enough to fight back.

Hyperreality ,

You are quite right to raise this point.

Relevant wikipedia article for those who are unaware:

Public opinion in Britain throughout the 1930s was frightened by the prospect of German terror bombing of British cities, which had started during the First World War. The media emphasised the dangers, and the general consensus was that defence was impossible and, as Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin had said in 1932, "The bomber will always get through". However, the Royal Air Force had two major weapons systems in the works: better interceptors (Hurricanes and Spitfires) and especially radar. They promised to counter the German bombing offensive but were not yet ready and so appeasement was necessary to cause a delay. Specifically, regarding the fighters, the RAF warned the government in October 1938 that the German Luftwaffe bombers would probably get through: "the situation... will be definitely unsatisfactory throughout the next twelve months"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeasement

The whole article is worth a read. TLDR: Chamberlain's legacy and foreign policy has been (partially) re-evaluated.

UnderpantsWeevil ,
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world avatar

Might be worth remembering that while Tories like Chamberlain were busy appeasing Hitler's Germany, they were significantly less dovish towards Lenin's Russia.

British Tories endorsed the White Army in its war to reclaim Moscow, following the 1917 revolution. Brits participated in the blockade of Russian ports and harassment of their officials through the collapse of the Tory government in 1921. And the Brits, with Churchill as their Chancellor of the Exchequer, conducted a kind of Cold War with the Soviets well into the 1930s. The Munich Agreement was, at least in part, an effort to contain the Communists of Czechoslovak Sudetenland.

So much of the Western treatment towards the Germans during the 30s was, at its heart, a response to the failures of the Romanov Government at the end of WW1. And there was significant speculation - particularly with the Soviet economic boom of pre-WW2 era - that they'd be the Big Bad all the western powers were going to have to rally against. So Germany was - both directly by US business and indirectly by British appeasement - propped up as a regional counterweight.

Skua ,

a small sliver of Ukraine

"Oh poor little Putin only wants to steal the entire land area of Greece and the homes of eleven million people"

which voted to secede from Ukraine,

Ahh yes I too take referenda run by occupying militaries very seriously

Whether a Hitler comparison is valid or not, your take here fucking sucks

ForgotAboutDre ,

Hitler also held referendums under military occupation.

UnderpantsWeevil ,
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world avatar

Surprisingly easy to win an election with so many of your political opponents are held in prison camps or stuffed into holes in the ground.

Hell, I'm pretty sure that's the Floridian model for democracy for the last 30 years.

BakerBagel ,

Comparing Hitler to Napoleon is absurd. Get better comparisons. Not every war is a threat to global peace, and acting like it is minimalizes the things that actually are. Just because you dislike that he is trying to take a small sliver of Czechoslovakia which voted to secede from Czechoslovakia, doesn't make him after global domination.

People like you 90 years ago.

Thief_of_Crows ,

Those people were wrong, but I'm right. Most people who say what I did are right. You're leaving out the many, many times in history a country did not try to take over the world after winning a war.

Wodge ,
@Wodge@lemmy.world avatar

lemmy.ml yet again showing they're a clownshow of tankie nonsense.

b3an ,
@b3an@lemmy.world avatar

This asshole is a troll. Don’t feed him.

Thief_of_Crows ,

You can say what you like about my views, but I do believe them. Y'all are way too quick to deflecting. Why do you need to reflect if I'm so obviously wrong?

blazeknave ,

Nazi.

YeetPics ,
@YeetPics@mander.xyz avatar

Typical contrarian, get better at trolling 😎

Thief_of_Crows ,

Typical lib, deflecting all criticism with accusations of trolling. Or better, call me a Russian agent, that'll prove you're right.

YeetPics ,
@YeetPics@mander.xyz avatar

I don't have to prove I'm right.

this is a forum for discussion, not a debate stage you stooge.

Thief_of_Crows ,

That can't be true, you sure seemed to be on a debate stage when you were looking for any reason at all to dismiss me entirely.

sunbeam60 ,

Please move your account to hexbear (which most of us have already blocked) so we don’t have to listen to Russian propaganda talking points on the civilised side of Lemmy. I find it straining to block individual users.

Thief_of_Crows ,

You're saying that a primarily American community, centered around a podcast run by 3-4 Americans, is Russian propaganda? C'mon bro, listen to yourself.

assassin_aragorn ,

"Why won't you debate me about why the earth is flat?! Why do you need to deflect if I'm so obviously wrong?"

The answer, by the way? Because it's obvious trying to have a reasonable discussion with you is a waste of time and energy. Consider this reply a freebie.

Oh, and I highly suggest you don't conflate "we shouldn't let Putin invade even a little bit of land" with "being a lib". Not exactly a great look for liberal opposition if you do that.

Thief_of_Crows ,

Comparing it to a flat earth theory is ridiculous, it is entirely possible that the popular opinion, especially among Americans, is wrong. American media has historically been quite unreliable about foreign affairs, often intentionally.

blazeknave ,

He's been doing it overly since Georgia during the Bush administration. Shutup Nazi.

Thief_of_Crows ,

That does t make any sense, Russians are historically the most anti Nazi country.

blazeknave ,

Exhibited by all the black, Jewish, openly queer, etc, people walking about town safely all day? "But muh talking points on my troll farm faq pdf from corporate!"

Thief_of_Crows ,

Exhibited by the fact that they fucking murdered almost all of them. Meanwhile America was handing them money left and right.

blazeknave ,

So it's anti Nazi to genocide the other? Then sure, you're the biggest anti Nazis. Just shut the fuck up anti Nazi.

Thief_of_Crows ,

It's anti Nazi to murder Nazis. Russia did that the most, and this they are the most anti Nazi country. Are you trying to read it as that stupid "antifa are fascists" BS that used to get spewed by morons?

blazeknave ,

I don't know why I'm engaging your bad faith bullshit but here goes. Russia was allied with Nazi Germany the majority of the invasion and conquering of the West. Only after Germany betrayed Russia did they start killing Nazis, out of necessity.. most of which did the work themselves by freezing half to death. And that was 80 years ago. Today, they're committing genocide, kidnapping children, leveling civilian cities, threatening nuclear war. Cut. The. Shit.

Thief_of_Crows ,

You're going to accuse ME of bad faith bullshit and then try to tell me a fake version of history? Russia was literally at war with Germany before America was. And no, they're not committing genocide, or any of that shit. I highly suggest you get your news from places less biased than USA, historically they have produced a fuck ton of fake news, especially about Russia.

jordanlund Mod ,
@jordanlund@lemmy.world avatar

He's not after "a small sliver of Ukraine", he wants ALL of Ukraine.

Thief_of_Crows ,

That's not what he's fighting a war over. Has he taken any land that wasn't part of the initial declaration? I see zero reason to think that what he has said and which he is currently doing are lies.

jordanlund Mod ,
@jordanlund@lemmy.world avatar

Putin has said repeatedly that Ukrainians and Russians are "one people" and a separate Ukraine doesn't really exist. It seems you haven't been paying attention.

The Kremlin posted propaganda piece, written by Putin, doesn't seem to be loading for me, but there's a Wiki on it here:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Historical_Unity_of_Russians_and_Ukrainians

"Putin openly questions the legitimacy of Ukraine's contemporary borders.[9] According to Putin, the modern-day Ukraine occupies historically Russian lands,[9] and is an "anti-Russia project" created by external forces since the seventeenth century, and of administrative and political decisions made during the Soviet Union[5] (a BBC article traced the term "anti-Russia project" to some Russian conspiratorial writing of 2011–13).[10] He also discusses the Russo-Ukrainian War, maintaining that "Kiev simply does not need Donbas".[11]"

Which is, of course, nonsense.

https://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/ukraine-history-fact-checking-putin-513812/

https://rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/russia-and-ukraine-one-people-putin-claims

sunbeam60 ,

Not for lack of trying though.

YeetPics ,
@YeetPics@mander.xyz avatar

Small sliver

Lmao sure, kid.

UnderpantsWeevil ,
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world avatar

Worth remembering that a healthy chunk of the American business elite was more than ready to support a United Nazi Europe against the scourge of Stalin's Soviet Union. Luminaries from Henry Ford to George Prescott Bush were nakedly advocating a US alliance with the Germans in an attempt to reassert western dominion over the globe, as the colonial settlement system was cracking up in the wake of WW1.

Guys like Trump and Orban aren't anything new. A business-friendly globe-spanning conglomerate has been the end game for the PNAC crowd for a very long time.

blazeknave ,

Bush exponentially grew the family fortune, making broker fees, by funneling Americans' investments in these great mining opportunities in Dachau and Auschwitz, where the labor was free!

aidan Mod ,

Don't forget FDR and Mussolini were mutual fans for a while

UnderpantsWeevil ,
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world avatar

Italy was an Allied Power in WW1, and it was assumed (for at least a little while) that they were in the same block.

aidan Mod ,

Allying with Hitler wasn't the only problem with Mussolini...

UnderpantsWeevil ,
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world avatar

I mean, we're still fucking around in Ethiopia, standing up military juntas and extracting raw materials at sub-market rates.

One of the nicest things you could say about Mussolini was that he absolutely sucked at waging war. Wish more European despots could claim the same.

aidan Mod ,

It's important to remember that Hitler many times in speeches advocated invading Europe, I don't watch many Putin speeches, but I don't think he has done that with the US.

blazeknave ,

What does that even have to do with this thread?

el_bhm , (edited )

Nothing. It is a strawman to pivot the discussion.

The further that thread goes it derails into the proxy war fallacy.

Edit: Aww look. It did. What a surprise!

blazeknave ,

Lmao fuckin Nostradamus over here

aidan Mod , (edited )

That it's not the same situation. Everyone agrees warmongering is bad, but appeasement was mocked not because it led to the annexation of the Czech Republic, but because it didn't actually keep the UK and France out of a war. Hitler always wanted to invade France. This isn't the same situation, because Putin isn't repeatedly saying he wants to invade NATO, which Hitler did do referring to Poland and the USSR. Putin would likely continue to conquest, almost definitely into Georgia if it doesn't fall in line, but there's no reason to believe he would attack NATO

uienia ,

What on Earth are you on about? His propaganda stooges in the Russian media which he 100% controls says Russia will either nuke or invade NATO countries on a daily basis.

aidan Mod ,

Source for them saying they intend to invade NATO after Ukraine? (I don't mean in retaliation for crossing a "red line")

el_bhm ,

Fuck off to lemmygrad.

aidan Mod ,

I'm not a leftist

el_bhm ,

Good, they arent either.

aidan Mod ,

they claim to be

jordanlund Mod ,
@jordanlund@lemmy.world avatar

Removed, rule 3, civility.

jordanlund Mod ,
@jordanlund@lemmy.world avatar

Putins threats have been more direct:

https://www.politico.eu/article/vladimir-putin-new-speech-ukraine-war-transnistria-nato

"We too have weapons that can hit targets on their territory. This really threatens a conflict with nuclear weapons, and thus the destruction of civilization," he added.

aidan Mod ,

That's messed up, I didn't know he threatened nuking directly, but I knew state tv had talked about it. But I see that as more a horrific threat than an actual goal- he might be way more crazy than I'm giving him credit for, but I just don't see how he can actually see a nuclear war with NATO working out for him.

el_bhm ,

I already told you where this discussion will go.

JustZ ,
@JustZ@lemmy.world avatar

Rest in peace.

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