Hungarian News temporary down and not working properly

  • March 15, 2022
  • István
  • 13 Comments

My excuses for the technical problems that are occurring since Monday. As I wrote in a comment I suspected an automatic update of WP that occurred shortly after the last known comment having caused the loss of an entire post. This update was just a co-incidence. In fact the host provider exchanged servers and had provided an old backup, so that the entire website was set back in time. More errors occurred and another backset in time happened and the earlier lost post including comments reappeared, just everything what happened later vanished when the old server was reconnected. The technical staff of the host provider worked on the problem and I hope they got it fixed now.

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Pantanifan
Pantanifan
March 15, 2022 21:40

Good to have the site back and working again!

Istvan (Chicago)
Istvan (Chicago)
March 15, 2022 22:05
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Well if that is all that happened you are in good shape, Spotify was knocked out by pissed off Russians for a while but I was able to recover all my playlists. Thanks for your efforts.

Don Kichote
Don Kichote
March 15, 2022 23:10

Good that you are back and you have retrieved deleted content! Hopefully there was no attack …

Michael Detreköy
Michael Detreköy
March 16, 2022 01:38

OT – Regarding the Kiev mini-conference involving Morawiecky and Fiala – What response do you see in Hungary? And does Orbán’s media machine still talk about being influential in V4?

Istvan (Chicago)
Istvan (Chicago)
March 16, 2022 03:44

There was a article, if I recall correctly in the Washington Post indicating a profound split now between Poland and Hungary over weapons for Ukraine. PiS according to that article has found US support now critical to protect itself from Russia, and apparently is now talking up democratic values, any illiberal rhetoric is unwelcome. I honestly have lost count of how many US forces are there now, my own daughter among them. I know we have just sent over a full US Army Combat aviation brigade with assault helicopters all equipped with antitank weapons on the border.

The Poles seem to be anticipating a Russian attack at some point as this war evolves. They have nothing bad to say about the USA, except over the no fly zone. That could still happen if the Russians try to bomb weapons stashed near the border with Ukraine to be transferred. Then we are going down the slippery slope to a full NATO v Russia war.

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Michael Detreköy
Michael Detreköy
March 16, 2022 04:51

A slippery slope it is allright! It seems the Poles go all-in on the Nato/EU siding, for now. They aren’t choosy about how their border is fortified and (given the Polish govt. plane-crash, under doubious circumstances, that killed his twin brother in Russia), VP Kaczynski has a strong personal motive for showing teeth.
I have watched, from a distance, how British, Italian, Baltic, Greek, ex-Ukrainian, anonymized ex-Warsaw freighters, and Nordic air lifters and personnel carriers, contribute to the air bridge into Poland – app. 20 flights per day and full tanker support, not to mention all the different monitoring operators. Also, a joint Scandinavian, German, British, Dutch, Belgian, Polish and the 3 Baltic countries naval force operates in the Baltic Sea, keeping Russia at bay, there.
I think it would be relevant to hear an official Hungarian comment on their part in this massive cooperation – Presuming they have some communication with the outside world, of course.

Michael Detreköy
Michael Detreköy
March 16, 2022 05:33

Having lived in Scandinavia, it looks as if the present Nato naval-scenario must be a Russian nightmare come true. There’s no way they can keep Kaliningrad and Petrograd if the neighbors decide to seize.

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theestampe
theestampe
March 16, 2022 11:53

When you see how Russian forces are having a hard time in Ukraine, I cannot imagine how poorly they would perform against NATO.

Observer
Observer
March 16, 2022 11:17

Michael
Wednesday morning I found nothing in Magyar Nemzet, but 888.hu reportes the meeting. Their explanation of Orbàn’s absence however, was not that he’s busy with the national holiday, but to the effect that Hu will not supply weapons or send soldiers in Ukr there is no point for Orbàn to visit (even in an armored minibus and flack jacket? – my comment).

Observer
Observer
March 16, 2022 11:35

Further to my 11.17 comment
888.hu and the Orbàn propaganda machine is pushing hard the lie that the left wants to send Hu soldiers into Ukr always omitting the second half of MZP’s statement “if NATO decides so”.
I.e. a MZP government will honor a NATO request, while the duplicitous and treacherous O1G will not.

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Observer
Observer
March 16, 2022 11:27

The problem with Orbàn’s gypsy horse trader mentality of “we are in only for the money” (a present feature in the Hu National psyche too) is that it weakens the Alliance. In the same vein the Fid supporters traditionally hold a deep grudge against the Americans for not fighting off the Russians in Hu in 1956.
With allies like Orbàn Europe doesn’t need enemies.