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turbinetree

(24,720 posts)
Sun May 29, 2022, 10:38 AM May 2022

Victor Orban is an ....... fill in the blank....

Jennifer Rankin
The EU is debating whether to water down a ban on Russian oil imports to placate Hungary’s leader, Viktor Orbán, who is blocking the latest European sanctions against Vladimir Putin’s war machine.

Under a compromise, the EU could ban Russian oil arriving on tankers but allow pipeline imports, a proposal that would allow Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic to continue being supplied via the Soviet-era Druzhba pipeline that runs through Ukraine.

More than three weeks after the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, proposed a complete ban on Russian oil imports to the EU by the end of the year, the bloc is stalled on the plans. Hungary, which is heavily dependent on Russian oil, has said it needs five years and billions of euros to upgrade its refineries.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2022/may/29/russia-ukraine-war-battle-in-donbas-indescribably-difficult-says-zelenskiy-live#block-629373c88f082b0174c57e17

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Victor Orban is an ....... fill in the blank.... (Original Post) turbinetree May 2022 OP
Republican Saboburns May 2022 #1
Putin puppet rurallib May 2022 #2
A Nazi. Voltaire2 May 2022 #3
Republican role model for the future of America TheRealNorth May 2022 #4
modern version of a fascist spouting nationalism and traditionalism andym May 2022 #5
Here you go.... PlanetBev May 2022 #6

andym

(5,445 posts)
5. modern version of a fascist spouting nationalism and traditionalism
Sun May 29, 2022, 01:16 PM
May 2022

who serves as a model for conservative Neo-nationalists across the world including those in the GOP. He has control of the media in Hungary, which should be seen as a blueprint for like-minded individuals.

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