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I view FA as an arena for American political elite to build legitimacy for their ideas.
I'm surprised to hear such strong language out of FA. I normally expect boring policy-style language.
I've perceived that things have never been better for American international order than under Trump/Biden.
Interesting precedence if so. Having career civil servants keeps things from changing too fast, and turning them political could enable instability. I'm curious how this interacts with the Hatch act.
I'm surprised at the emphasis on "corruption" language, especially in FA. This type of language gets people labeled "troublemaker" as Chomsky might say.
The last few cycles have been a weird time for NATO, as the escalating Russian aggression revitalised the alliance, but the unreliability of Trump vastly diminished the status of the US. Europe is now actively trying to get out of the military subordinate role.
IDK what your point is. NATO being revitalized is not a "good thing" that makes us live nicer. NATO and rearmament is a fever, Russian imperialism is the sickness.
NATO is not an economic alliance, it's a military one. The sole goal of NATO is keeping Russian soldiers outside NATO members' territories. And as someone whose home country has suffered immensely under Russian occupation, seeing Russia draw troops down from the Finnish border right after they joined the alliance makes me happy that we are NATO members.
Europe wouldn't be doing better outside NATO, it has no bearing on economics. Trade disruption with Russia certainly has to do with it, but ironically that's because during the 00s and the 10s Europe extended a friendly hand to Russia, and got into deep trading entanglements with it, which Russia tried to exploit to force geopolitical concessions.
What the actual heck are you talking about?
Energy prices went up since Russia is conducting a military invasion on the country transiting said energy, and as a result of EU/US sanctions that are the result of war crimes, crimes of aggression and genocide. The only thing NATO does currently is ensure that can't spill over to more countries being attacked. NATO didn't do jack shit yet. Individual countries, and the EU, did.
Our countrymen should look for their money at Hatvanpuszta or Mészáros & Mészáros. Russian puppet Orbán stole all the money and the future of the country, Russian puppet Orbán made it impossible to have children, get sick, or die, with dignity, he is responsible for producing the highest real estate inflation, the highest food inflation in the EU, and it's all because he'd rather take Russian cock to his throat than have less corruption kickbacks.
A ruszkik meg igazán hazamehetnének végre és foglalkozhatnának a saját országukkal ahelyett hogy mongol módjára fosztogatnak és erőszakolnak nyugatra.
I wonder what might have caused that. Not a genocidal fascist Russia, right?
It's a shit situation, but still better than genocide.
Nice to see you using the same lingo as the American fascists, you know the ones that support an additional genocide in the Middle East as well as the one Russia is perpetrating.
Thanks, but Orbán already took it and sold most of it to Russians. Not much left to steal anymore.
Orphans are being quite literally raped with government support, healthcare is nonexistent with hospitals not picking up the phone and entire wards closing, the infrastructure is failing with trains derailing daily, wages are a joke and are being artificially repressed, housing prices are skyrocketing, all with government support.
That's Orbán's reality, that is the proximate threat, that is what the Russian puppet is doing to the country. Wall Street idiots and incompetent neoliberal politicians are of course annoying and we should work against that as well, but give me a fucking break.
And just please stop doing the American exceptionalist idiotism yourself, the world is more than genocidal fascistic Russians and genocidal fascistic Americans. You don't need to lick the boot of Putin to show you don't support Biden.
Okay, are you seriously a bot? What White House approved sources?
Orphans being raped were acknowledged by the Orbán government, the rapist and his accomplices were convicted in court, then the accomplice was pardoned because he was a personal friend of the Orbán family. That this happened is not even disputed by Orbán himself either, he's just trying to pretend that he has no sway over his own Minister of Justice or the President he nominated. Some in his inner circle are still on the side of the guy who enabled the mass rape of orphaned children.
I am not informing myself about hospitals from "White House approved media", I've been there and lost multiple family members there to entirely preventable causes. I wouldn't wish the experience of visiting a hospice that looks like a literal horror show to see a loved one for one last time as they die from treatable diseases. Or being told that a loved one has died since the ambulance didn't arrive at all. For days.
Please go outside and wake up to the reality that the biggest problem affecting Hungary at least for the past 20 years has been the idiotic, incompetent and utterly corrupt in all senses of the word Orbán government that is being supported by Putin for the sole reason of creating chaos in the EU.
BTW today's news is that this is how a bathroom of a home for children in state care looks like in Hungary, today, after countless amounts of EU money given to and stolen by the government: