“Orban should join Russia. Oh wait,the Soviets tried that already. Orban must have skipped over the tanks in Budapest history. He couldn’t show glee being born too late. He probably would rush out to welcome them next time when it comes round.”
Orban got his start in Hungarian politics in 1989 by making a speech at the Commemoration of the Heroes of 1956 Uprising. In that speech, Orban demanded free elections and the removal of Soviet troops.
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/04/viktor-orban-hungary/557246/
Things have changed since 1989. Orban has figured that out. Putin has figured that out. Some of us on FR have figured it out.
But the Cold War Fossils and 1980’s nostalgists have, like the Bourbons, learned nothing and forgotten nothing.
You haven’t figured out that NeoSoviet Russia is still a threat to its own people and to the West. Today’s Russia has a dictator holding onto power and pushing through his third decade as leader. Russia still murders its political dissidents and its opposition leaders. Russia still moves populations of people around, still uses human wave military tactics, and invades its neighbors. It allies itself with terrorist groups like Hamas, and terrorist countries like North Korea and Iran. It produces a hazed military that commits war crimes as a matter of policy.