Yeah, just remembered you posted a "theory" a while back about hungary and poland annexing parts of Ukraine in agreement with russia. Thought it was intresting Ukraine are suggesting that.
For the Oil and Gas part, feel free to eleborate, its always intersting. I'll just say that personally I dont hold it against smaller countries who are dependent on russian energy. Im a realist, no country will sink its own enconomy on moral grounds while bigger ones lacked the foresight to reduce global dependency for decades now and some who can afford it wont even pay the full price themselves.
For the Oil and Gas part, feel free to eleborate, its always intersting. I'll just say that personally I dont hold it against smaller countries who are dependent on russian energy. Im a realist, no country will sink its own enconomy on moral grounds while bigger ones lacked the foresight to reduce global dependency for decades now and some who can afford it wont even pay the full price themselves.
the gas/energy issue is much more complex, i'll try to explain it in the general politics thread later, i'll just say that in my view the bottom line is orbán counting the votes and not willing to lose its domestic voting base. it's more about internal politics and economy than russia/ukraine itself, and that's why we're trying to picture ourselves as the switzerland of central europe, the bastion of neutrality lol. and of course the ukrainians, who had plenty of conflicts on the rights of the hungarian minority in ukraine with orbán's system way, way before the war, are milking that situation just to put some dirt on hungary. this "hungary would pick their gas bill over ukrainian lives" has been going on since the start of the war, and while it has some truth to it, as you just wrote, they can't expect us to sink our economy just to sanction russia. hungary is a small player in this game anyway.
also on the gas/petrol sanctions, eu might give some exceptions to countries that are overly dependent on russian gas. so we might end up voting for the sanctions, but still not forced to apply them before a given date. we'll see.
