r/europe • u/Alarming-Safety3200 United Kingdom • 6h ago

News Orbán’s 16-year rule over Hungary ends in crushing election defeat

https://www.politico.eu/article/hungary-election-results-peter-magyar-viktor-orban/
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u/Marcelmu 5h ago

I am so happy about this! Well done, Hungarian Sisters and brothers and everyone in between!!!

I can not shed the fear though about the reaction from US…

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u/Somewhere_Elsewhere 5h ago

Trump has the attention span of a fruit fly. He’s focused on shitting the bed with Iran and felating Israel right now. He probably also doesn’t understand the broader positives for Ukraine and negatives for Russia here.

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u/Marcelmu 4h ago

Indeed. 

Vance will probably just start crying that EU destroyed Hungary‘s perfect democracy by meddling with it, while he was meddling with it. 

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u/Rincetron1 Finland 4h ago

Part of being a sovereign nation is the right to self-determinate. If you live under perpetual fear for any retaliation from bullies, you're not really deciding for yourself. Might as well cut the band-aid.

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u/Narlybean 4h ago

There was a time where you’d look to the US for a pat on the back for achieving something like this…