Hungary is just a Russian puppet state anyway, who cares what they say?
They are not just “Russian puppet state”, they are members of the EU and NATO with the right of veto. Such speeches shouldn’t be ignored.
The EU need to reduce the areas in which single country can veto a decision. Or Hungary could keep delaying of blocking decisions forever.
Orban is insane, Hungarians really need to throw him out. He is also destroying Hungarian economy.
Best option (for both Ukraine and the EU, perhaps even Hungary) would be to suspend Hungary from the EU and Schengen for 3 years.
They can be brought back even before the 3 year period if they show a desire to do so.
Orban is corrupt, leads a corrupt government and is anti-democracy. He should be dethroned and the EU must continue to explore ways how to inactivate Hungary as an EU member.
“I trust my ministers, but, let’s say, it (drones) flew a few meters over there, so what? Ukraine is not an independent country, not a sovereign country,” the Hungarian prime minister said in a pro-government political talk show.
“We support Ukraine, the West supports it, we give it weapons — Ukraine should not behave as if it is a sovereign state.”
I can kinda see what he means? So what if a few NATO drones violate Ukrainian airspace. It’s not like we’re bombing them
Even if we accept that line of reasoning, which I don’t, Hungary specifically is doing fuck all to help Ukraine outside of collective EU assistance that its MEPs usually vote against. Orban should not be including Hungary in the “we” of “we support Ukraine”
Just because Hungary is a NATO member doesn’t make all their troops and equipment NATO. E.g. if you’re a soldier crossing into another member’s territory, you need a NATO travel order to prove that your presence is warranted and actually covered under the treatment. And even then, Ukraine isn’t a NATO member nor have they given a permission for NATO members to violate their airspace.
So what if a few NATO drones violate Ukrainian airspace.
Violating another country’s airspace with military aircraft is pretty high on the don’t do list; Ukraine could in return close its airspace to Hungarian aircraft
