Hungary’s Viktor Orbán plays spoilsport on NATO accession for Finland, Sweden

POLITICO ^ | February 28, 2023 | Suzanne Lynch

[McGruff]

Hungary’s reputation as the troublemaker of Europe will be burnished on Wednesday as its parliament begins debating a contentious issue: whether to give Finland and Sweden the green light to join NATO.

Along with Turkey, Hungary has yet to ratify the applications of Finland and Sweden to join the transatlantic defense alliance more than eight months after NATO leaders signed off on their membership bid at a summit in Madrid.

Máté Kocsis, head of Orbán’s nationalist Fidesz party caucus in parliament, said last week that a “serious debate” had now emerged over the accession of the two countries. Hungary now plans to send a delegation to Sweden and Finland to examine “political disputes” that have arisen.

Orbán himself echoed such views...

[Cronos]

So then you agree that you are afraid of the NATO alliance as it protect countries from you Russians, right?

[Cronos]

True - other countries should be footing the bill more.

Yet there have been folks (not you as far as I recall) who blasted the silly talks of an “EU army”

[BlackbirdSST]

Putin's Russia is the enemy -- when Putin is gone, things can change

If we wake tomorrow and Putin is dead you clowns will move on to the next shiny thing that gets your attention.

[StAnDeliver]

Putlim onanism on display, as if this is a story at all.

They are ALL already EU members, Orban is just flapping his gums, he's relying on Turkey to keep them out of NATO but even Erdogan will submit in the end, ironically for the promise of re-entering the F-35 acquisition stream and turning over their incomplete purchase of the New Soviet S-400 air-defense systems.

[dfwgator]

Turkey is thinking of how to position itself once Russia is weakened. That’s when they’ll go rogue, and start building Ottoman Empire 2.0.

But Russia has to be weakened before that happens, so Turkey will use NATO towards that end.

[sport]

Correct! They will still be worshipers of Soros and Biden and they will attack who Soros and Biden say attack. And they will be the new Putin. Without missing a beat.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Keep one troll (a la MurryMom), confine them to one thread (for the purposes of laughing at them), ban the rest. Too many pollutants otherwise.

[fieldmarshaldj]

NATO accomplished its goal in 1991 and should’ve been disbanded. It no longer resembles the anti-Communist network of 32 years ago, but a globalist-controlled nuclear threat to humanity. But then, you know that already, since you keep pimping them and their warmongering agenda.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Are you in the Ukraine ? If not, why not ? Quit your keyboard kommando’ing chickenhawk squawking and go fight for your lord and savior Soros and his puppet pecker-playing Sodomite activist, Zelensky.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Reason #10,001 why NATO needs to be swiftly eliminated.

[Alberta's Child]

I never thought I’d see the day when Freepers would sign on to an open-borders corporate/military globalist agenda that has the full support of Joe Biden, Lindsey Graham, and Bernie Sanders.

Word to the wise … If these three @ssholes agree on ANYTHING more consequential than the official naming of a post office building, you can be damn sure that the interests of U.S. citizens and the rule of constitutional law are being tossed aside.

[Alberta's Child]

Thanks! :-)

[tlozo]

The Finns have enjoyed almost a century of demilitarized peace and prosperity with Russia on its border...they don’t need NATO

So tell me, why are the Finns suddenly desperate to join NATO? Putin. Warmongering Putin who violates international treaties.

[iamgalt]

Precisely, Orbán is a man of courage and an outlier. The rats just sent that globalist subversive Samantha Power into his country to cause as much trouble as possible.

[tlozo]

I never thought I’d see the day when Freepers would sign on to an open-borders corporate/military globalist agenda

Sure, believing countries should stay within their own borders and not invade neighboring independent European countries is signing on to an "open-borders corporate/military globalist agenda". You know that's just bat-shit crazy?

[tlozo]

Like I said, you don’t care about our borders

I'm glad your a mind reader.

[StAnDeliver]

"Turkey is thinking of how to position itself once Russia is weakened."

Erdogan's not waiting lol. Turksyria is all of Idlib down to Hama, and the only reason he didn't take Aleppo is because it's a dusty shithole and the people are pacified.

[Cronos]

you can’t be “in the Ukraine” - unless you are Russian.

One can be “in Ukraine” —> and that’s a question I ask folks like you based in St.Petersburg. Why aren’t you there?

[Cronos]

NATO could have been disbanded if Clinton had done his job.

But he didn’t and we got Putin.

Thanks to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, NATO got a renewed raison d’etre

[Cronos]

If we wake tomorrow and Putin is dead you would lose your source of payments?