Posted on 11/06/2025 1:19:34 PM PST by Navy Patriot
There will be plenty of warmth on display as US President Donald Trump welcomes Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban at the White House on November 7, but alongside the strong personal chemistry there will be a full plate of issues as they sit down to lunch.
Long united by ideology and words, the two leaders are on opposite sides of the policy fence when it comes to imports of Russian oil. Meanwhile, plans for Orban to host Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin at a summit in Budapest have been placed very much on the back burner.
An exemption from US measures aimed at restricting the trade in Russian oil appears to be a key item on Orban’s wish list in Washington.
RFE/RL’s Hungarian Service reported that conversations with sources in the Hungarian government suggested they thought a deal on an exemption was likely. There is a European precedent, following a decision last month to temporarily exclude Rosneft’s German subsidiary from sanctions.
The White House and the State Department did not comment on questions from RFE/RL.
“He has asked for an exemption. We haven’t granted one.... Viktor is a friend of mine. He has asked for an exemption,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One on October 31.
(Excerpt) Read more at rferl.org ...
The obvious deal would be a near term exception for Hungary, tied to a rapid transition plan to non-Russian supply.
That is kind of what the deal has been for the last few years, but Hungary has not worked the transition, slow-rolling the EU. Likely this meeting will pressure Orban for a more concrete and timely program to reduce Hungary’s Russian energy purchases.
Hitler was able to fund his war for five and half years without oil export revenue.
The Confederate States of America were able to fight a war for four years without cotton export revenue.
Yes, but it ultimately inflated the Confederate dollars into nothing.
“The obvious deal would be a near term exception for Hungary, tied to a rapid transition plan to non-Russian supply.”
In capitalism, if you want that, you need to provide the same product at a lower price. In mafioso DC, you blow up pipelines, or threaten to damage someone to get or keep a customer.
In mafioso DC, you blow up pipelines, or threaten to damage someone to get or keep a customer.
Conveniently, Joe Biden is a Fascist braggart.
“Hitler was able to fund his war for five and half years without oil export revenue”
Yes, the same mechanisms are also being employed by Russia - spending off reserves, raising taxes, increasing debt and printing money.
In 1944, Germany had the “fastest growing” economy in Europe, due to the money printing effect, even though massive dislocations were accumulating, like decline of the non-defense sectors, and high inflation.
Both Fascist Germany and Putin’s Russia have also made extensive use of forcing debt onto their banking system and privately owned firms, which is a less common means of war funding.
Russia is well down the road of exhausting those other funding options, not just starting when the oil revenue runs down. Oil revenue is of outsized importance to Russia, relative to other countries in history.
“In capitalism, if you want that, you need to provide the same product at a lower price”
A lower price could be achieved by buying stolen goods, the product of child slaves, or Russian blood oil, that funds the killing of innocents by the thousands.
Such practices are just not morally acceptable.
Orban has been a goodguy.
give him the exception over a long term.
find a plan for Z-ski to give up donbass and schedule a peace plan meeting.
Give him the exception over a long term.
Agree.
Find a plan for Z-ski to give up Donbass and schedule a peace plan meeting.
Likely the result.
That is moving in the direction of Peace.
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