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The brave director Benő Bese of the said high school first asked the opinion of the Interior Ministry what to do with the Orban quotations on the wall of his school.

Because he did not receive any answer from above, he had the slogans removed.

https://hvg.hu/itthon/20230904_Jedlik_Anyos_Gimnazium_Csepel_Orban_Viktor_idezetek_lekerultek_iskolaogazgato_dontott_megszunt_az_ombudsmani_vizsgalat

The current Fidesz standard for being part of the liberal mainstream is providing armaments to Ukraine. Even the Italian leader Meloni has opposed Putin’s invasion and support sending weapon to Ukraine (see https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/meloni-reiterates-italys-military-support-to-ukraine-at-nato-summit/).

Orban is obsessed with regaining Transcarpathia or at least having Ukraine make the border area a self governing autonomous province over which Hungary would exert massive influence.

Unlike Italian fascists, Orban is the enemy of the Ukrainian far right nationalists who do indeed want to purge the country of Hungarians. On this see the history of Andriy Biletsky who founded the Azov Battalion.

When I try to discuss Hungarian nationalism with Americans of non-eastern European heritage they are baffled after all don’t the neo-nazis in Ukraine and Orban share the same basic anti-democratic ideology based on The NY Times simple understanding of Orban?

According to Palmer, the Hungarian border fence is nothing but the pushbacks of the Greeks and therefore legitimate.

He asks “Does Hungary
really be a state that provides no help at all for people who are entitled to asylum for political persecution or war after a procedure based on the rule of law?” That the Hungarians have no health system and no education system that is worth the name he obviously does not know. 😀 That Palmer once said old people die anyway as a defense of his Covid strategy fits well with the Orbanian attitude here. He says “that the incumbent Hungarian government undoubtedly has a genuine democratic mandate”. Then he lists what he has accomplished in Tübingen. I think he doesn’t know anything about Hungary at all, he scraped together a bit and still found Maria Theresa and the Swabians. A real Palmer – transcribed his lecture here.

A good summary, yes indeed.
I noticed how he (Bottoni) excused the voters for being responsible. That is a central point about the complex domestic legal situation, about which the Hungarian parliarment never took responsibility.
Yes, there was no real opposition after Orbán gained an
absolute parliamentary majority – but it went uncontested by normal civic action.
The obvious conclusion (which Bottoni acknowledges) is that the present dictatorship is in accordance with a majority of the people, not because they might want a change of leadership.

Yes General Milley (chair of the joint chiefs) discussed this on Sunday during an interview. He described them as “ small 10- or 12-man hunter-killer teams armed with anti-tank munitions.”

But apparently some of those teams are destroyed by Russian artillery and rocket fire once located by Russian surveillance drones.

But the major advantages are not in saving lives, but in saving armored personnel carriers which were being hit at a high rate by the Russians. There are massive casualties being taken by the Ukrainians due to the Russians walking their artillery fire up and down the kill zones. They use massive amounts of shells and the North Koreans are happily selling them to the Russians.

I and every artillery officer from every nation is taught to use massed sustained artillery fire aimed at a series of points along a line. In addition to attacking any enemy in the kill zone, a barrage intends to suppress enemy movements and deny access across that line of barrage. The impact points along the line may be 20–30 meters apart, with the total line length of the barrage zone anything from a few hundred to several thousand yards/meters long. Barrages can consist of multiple such lines, usually about 100 yards/meters apart, with the barrage shifting from one line to the next over time, or several lines may be targeted simultaneously.

Not many of those attacking Ukrainians are likely to survive without serious injuries.

In Vietnam at the Battle of An Loc the South Vietnamese artillery under my command after the South Vietnamese commander was killed by North Vietnamese counter battery fire and I took over.

We killed and severely wounded hundreds of North Vietnamese attacking commandos by estimating their positions. Now with drones you get exact gps locations to fire on, its very deadly.

Fideszniks claim that only a strong right wing force after the next elections (2024) in the European Parliament will save the EU – and they seem to hope that they and LePen, Meloni, PIS etc can manage it and get the EPP (CDU etc) to cooperate with them against the bad, bad leftist liberal green communists (add swear words here …) who have been ruling the EU for so long.
I dont get it:
Do they really believe the extreme right wing will get so strong?
They cant even decide on which of the right wing groups is best.
Of course the “success” of the AfD gives them some hope – but around 20% of the votes is not enough …

“I didn’t take the fellowship to write state-sponsored flattery, so I continued researching the topics I was interested in, primarily political corruption and ethnic tensions in eastern Europe. Once, when discussing my article ideas with an MCC administrator, she warned me repeatedly to “be careful”.

After going back and forth with MCC about their politically motivated edits to my work, I took to publishing my writing independently. I focused my articles on issues outside Hungary in hopes of protecting myself from any trouble. A friend at MCC told me that my work was being monitored. I lived with a constant fear that became debilitating at times. Twice I had panic attacks after publishing articles.”

“When it was all over, several other fellows in the same programme as me were offered lucrative positions at MCC-affiliated institutions. These fellows had furthered MCC’s cause and were rewarded for it.”

But it seems that Meloni has learned something. She distanced herself and Italy from the Silk Road (belt and Road) initiative while Szijarto still praises it as the best of the best:
https://dailynewshungary.com/szijjarto-hungary-a-success-story-eu-competitiveness-deteriorating/

The US takes great care to treat countries individually, regarding admission.
The Schengen-EU could learn a lot from that approach.
Ironically, the greatest opponent of border control in EU is Germany.