• tal@lemmy.today
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    8 hours ago

    Frankly, I don’t see why sending funds requires unanimous EU approval. Hungary wasn’t even contributing, based on the article:

    Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic approved the idea with the crucial caveat that they did not have to contribute to the loan.

    So I’d expect that any group of countries that do want to send funds could do so absent Hungary without even affecting the total commitment.

    Sanctions on goods out of Russia or something, sure. The EU controls what gets into the EU at the customs border. You have to have an EU-level decision, or goods can enter via another EU member and then there’s no control of the flow of goods internal to the EU. The EU structure doesn’t permit for that to be done below the EU level.

    But I don’t believe that there’s any intrinsic reason that Hungary need sign off on funds going to Ukraine, assuming that other countries honestly do want to send that money. A country can send funds wherever it wants, on an individual or collective basis.

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      9 hours ago

      He was into this kind of stuff way before Vance pulled his dick out from between those couch cheeks

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      7 hours ago

      Worst case scenario he tries to steal the election, fails, tries to Maduro his way out of it and then asks tramp and putain for military help against the big bad EU.

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        6 hours ago

        You think el douchbagger in chief over here could make the difference somehow if orban steals it? The EU did pretty much surrender on about everything so far in truth. And is more concerned with bringing in the trojan horses (redesigned as trojan sheep) of chatcontrol and age checks behind the wall of liberal democracy, which is surrendering their constituents to tech. To Thiel and his ilk.

        It is a lot more fucked that we realize. A lot more. I don’t trust they would defend the honest vote of hungary to nike (greek victory).