Tuesday, May 14, 2019

They are all communists, including Trump. Get over the idea Trump is an American capitalist. Got it wrong from that perspective. Banks in US don't embrace Trump.

Trump is always hungry for money. Hello? Trump is the best decoy Putin has ever had. By every measure Orban should be rejecting Moscow, but, he doesn't. His idea of fun is for Hungary to have relationships with Europe and Russia. Hungary has turned away from democracy and freedom and embraces strong man tactics as mentored by communist regimes. Does anyone believe Orban will ever have an economy that reflects the values of Europe? 


...Viktor Orbán (click here) expected that his favorite candidate, Donald Trump, would conduct a pro-Russian foreign policy and would keep his nose out of the affairs of other countries. Also, he would no longer demand adherence to democratic norms. Consequently, Orbán renewed his attack on non-governmental organizations operating in Hungary, especially those that receive money from George Soros’s Open Society Foundation. After all, Orbán figured, Trump dislikes the billionaire financier because he generously supported Hillary Clinton. As for diplomatic matters, Orbán was certain that he would receive Trump’s support for an even closer relationship with Putin’s Russia.


So, how did Orbán prepare for this new era of international relations? He decided to have a trial run ahead of the scheduled visit of Vladimir Putin, sending Péter Szijjártó to Moscow with a message that indicated a more openly supportive Hungarian policy toward Russia.

The many reports that appeared in both Hungarian and foreign papers on the meeting in Budapest between Vladimir Putin and Viktor Orbán all agree that the much touted “summit” ended with a fairly meaningless press conference dealing mostly with trade relations and including a few announcements about the Russian gas supply and the financing of the Paks Nuclear Power Plant’s extension. To learn more about what most likely transpired between Putin and Orbán behind closed doors, we should focus on the Moscow trip of the much more talkative Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó on January 23 and 24. He was equally chatty after his negotiations with members of the Russian delegation in Budapest....

Orban is anti-NATO. He should not be in the White House. Why not bring back Lavrov and his gang for lunch. It is the same thing. They might consider the fast food King's idea of lunch a real treat.

“If the EU and Russia cannot agree on the conditions of a pragmatic and close cooperation, then the Union will seriously lag behind in the international economic and political competition.”