No, this is not that.

Orbán never fucked around with mail in voting in this way.

Hungary never got this bad.

That’s what the Hungarian populist opposition is running on, wealth taxes and jailing oligarchs, as well as strong pro-EU ties

Does the US not have the same problem?

Sure, you can buy a house in somewhere in the middle of nowhere in the US, but that’s similar in the EU, Northern Croatia was literally giving houses away to people committing to live there.

Aren’t Tomahawks cruise missiles and not ballistic?

They can ban payments from the EU to Pornhub

East German anthem

Soros also financed Orbán for that matter

Police cars can pull data on licence plates in seconds, punishments are harsh, and they can also just ask for the registration at payment.

Luckily this is about the rollback of 1.0, we’ve actually made progress.

Those votes were about mandatory chat control, 1.0 is about opt-in chat control for companies, which was passed 6 years ago, but the EP let it expire now.

Conservatives want it back.

Licence plates and a simple govt database?

I think two reasons. One is that Russia is already attacking, the hybrid war is in full swing.

The other is that we actually had to send soldiers to our borders in preparation if an invasion this year, but it wasn’t Russia but the US who was planning to invade.

There are still things there, just not much that is younger than 50 years or easily repairable.

But a rusty T-72 hull without a turret or engine may still start a new life as a “new” T-90.

You mean Slovakia. And Orbán has around 50 days remaining in power.

Because they are a big fucking economy and we’re stronger together.

That’s the point, it claims to make 100 per month, but that’s their claim including refurbs. In reality, their modern tank production in a war economy is around the same as the EU’s in peacetime, except even their “new” production is a lot of hull modernisations rather than new builds. And that does not even count with the fact that there is a big difference between the combat effectiveness of a T-90 or T-80 BVM and a new Leopard.

They are dangerous, but not to that degree. That 100 is more like 20-30 in reality, while we put out around 20-ish, but it’s direct orders rather than perpetual serial production because we’re at peace.

But that’s the big lie, they are not producing what they claim, they are refurbishing it! They are replacing T-90s with BMP-1s and claim “we have more AFVs than at the start of the war!”

There are different kinds of Russian propaganda, to quote the Cold War Americans, you should never over- or underestimate them. This is going for the former, others go for the latter.

Supporting Ukraine is still the cheapest way to exhaust the invasion. Russia is running a campaign to scare people to hoard munitions for themselves.

Your scenario fails at the point that not declaring war on Russia if they invade a member state goes against the very basic agreements of the EU, so it would collapse the EU and all the member state economies.

Even AfD has only two choices if Russia invades Poland, sending the Bundeswehr or total economic collapse.

Failing a complete overhaul of the EU to be lesser, needing complete unanimity, the EU is a tight military alliance, tighter than NATO.

Yeah, but Europe, despite having the same idiotic centrists in power in a lot of places, has much stronger democratic institutions and systems to push back.

As much as I see far right pushes, they can’t fuck over the whole continent at the same time like they did in the US. Brexit had a backlash, AfD winning would show how shit they are to other countries. Also, there are more varied stuff going on, there is a lot of shit to hope about as well.

Hungary of all places might get a wealth tax going on this year for example. It’s not all bad. We just killed not just Chat Control 2.0, but also the already implemented first iteration was rolled back.

This newspaper shares ownership with the Daily Mail, and is parroting Russian-aligned talking points, cites “some experts” and so on.

I could go point by point over how it enlarges problems, glosses over stuff when it’s inconvenient, but I’m just tired of it.

Russia could pull an Iran and kill anfew dozen to a few hundred Europeans, and we’d kill Putin and his extended family and party members on like day 2.

We spent 0.5% of our GDP to pay one of their former allies to fight them to exhaustion. Yes, they have replaced their one million troops and several thousand armoured vehicles by drafing the second million that they wouldn’t before and bringing back relics to life. We can spend another half a percent, can they afford another million people?

Big “I don’t care about gas prices, I’m still fueling my car for 20” energy. It works until someone asks how much fuel you’re getting for it and how often do you have to go.

Not the entire supply, just enough to affect prices. Basically the stock market but without even the appearance of it not being manipulated to hell.

And it’s not Russia, or not just them, anyone with enough money to play can fuck people with sub-8 figure net worths over.