Unironically, I think that was the thought process.
Hard to vote for someone who is telling you all is well and the people that got the country here are competent and mean well, when the country is going through 5 different crises, all preventing you from living a decent life.
They will pay for enterprise licenses and be able to disable and delete it.
Only us plebs get whipped.
You know there won't be one, and this is just a vehicle to do military purges, right?
AGAIN?
Will they keep trying this again and again and again and again until it passes?
This is why the ICJ cases matter.
At this point I really can’t understand what is driving Orban anymore.
If he stops stealing, his empire collapses, and he (or his family who are also involved) might even see some form of consequences. The EU does not let him steal any more, hence the openness to the East.
When I think of cutting red tape, no unnecessary bullshit bureaucracy and fast acting government, I don't usually think of Germany. What happened?
How is this not a crime that gets counterterrorist units involved immediately?
Its ranks included ... active-duty U.S. soldiers
How is this not a crime that gets the military police involved immediately?
"Don't mind us, we're just running a terrorist training camp here!"
Seriously, WTF?
wanted to play superpower
As someone who is from that region, it's not even that. A whole lot of countries want to play superpower, and they are only mildly hated for it. The US, the French, even the Chinese are an abstract economic threat. The Russians want to play 18th century superpower and that makes them a concrete military threat.
The stupid thing is, just by looking at the state of the world right now, they totally would have won the long game if they went soft power only. Putin is a failure that way as well I guess.
From the linked Wikipedia article:
In 2022 the network was bought by a company linked to the Hungarian government of Viktor Orbán. The acquisition was partly financed by funds from the Hungarian state.
That's just the Netherlands.
Nobody ever accused voters of being smart. That said, Harris lost a lot of Biden's 2020 voters, so this is the exact good time to go super critical on her campaign.