Give these two articles a good read:

Link 1

Link 2

This is the front page of the largest liberal news site:

“Good morning, Russia”

I wonder how many of the liberal news sites got money from the West, and this new law obviously puts them in a very difficult position…

Hungary is doing its own version of Foreign Agents Registration Act similar to Georgia (and the US)

Hungary’s Fidesz government has proposed a law targeting organizations deemed threats to national sovereignty, primarily those receiving foreign funding and critical of the government. These groups could face financial restrictions, mandatory asset declarations, and increased scrutiny. The government argues this protects Hungary from foreign interference, while critics fear it will stifle dissent and civil society.

The law empowers the Sovereignty Protection Office to blacklist organizations, triggering penalties like loss of tax donation eligibility and stricter oversight of foreign funding. A broad definition of “threats to sovereignty” raises concerns about targeting groups advocating for human rights or environmental protection. Banks will monitor listed organizations’ accounts, and the tax authority can suspend funds or demand their return. Critics compare the law to similar measures in Russia, fearing it will restrict freedom of expression and association. The law underscores tensions between national sovereignty and democratic liberties.

Tank movements are Fake

We’ve seen like two tanks on a street? Where are they, and where are they heading?

The footage might be real, but the narrative around it: “Hungary is actively working towards the potential invasion of Transcarpathia” that’s 100% part of the espionage game that became public last week

give the opposition a Push

Every opposition party in Hungary is pro-Nato basically, so yes, Ukraine doesn’t want the Hungarians to impede the EU in giving billions to Ukraine

there is never much in Media about Military movements

No, it’s just strange because this is very much in the news cycle right now, the opposition leader is saying Orban secretly wants war with Ukraine, and Orban’s party accusing the opposition leader to be an inside man for both the EU and the Ukrainian secret service

Like this is very much the top story right now this espionage angle, but then this espionage angle is about whether the Hungarian state did any preparations in order to invade Transcarpathia, so I’m pretty sure the Hungarian liberal/opposition media would jump on the fact that the Hungarian army is doing anything out of the ordinary at the border. (And they did cover the drone being shot down)

And the sources you’ve posted is a noname twitter handle, who retweeted an Ukrainian OSINT tweet and a Greek newspaper. For all we know the original Ukrainian OSINT tweet is actually the Ukrainian secret service planting the story themselves

edit:

I’ve opened the link again, and the source is not OSINT but Euromaidan itself. Before I was like 20% sure it was a planted story by the SBU, now I’m more like 90%

So there’s nothing about this in Hungarian media, and the Hungarian liberals are very keen to prove that Orban wants war against Ukraine. With that said with the current scandal I wouldn’t be surprised if they sent a couple of tanks to the Ukrainian border, hardly a massive military presence though. Any state would be idiotic not to deploy additional forces to its border with a nation currently at war.

There was an air force military exercise happening lately, and there was this:

However, there is a unanimous opinion that what is happening is part of a months-long intelligence game, parts of which have already become public. Our sources also attribute to this same game the incident that happened last week but was not publicized: the Hungarian Defense Forces’ radar in Tokaj detected drones flying into Hungary, one of which was shot down. The Hungarians suspect that the drones came from Ukraine.

and this:

However, our sources maintain that a Ukrainian intelligence operation did indeed occur, and after Hungarian national security agencies leaked this information, the Ukrainian services began to feel the pressure. We understand that they have mobilized significant resources to uncover the sources who are providing information to the Hungarian services.

Given that Hungarian counterintelligence has also been extremely active against Ukrainian intelligence recently, our sources do not rule out the possibility that the Ukrainians carried out a so-called “preemptive strike” with Friday’s announcement, meaning they struck first. The operation appears pre-planned and well-coordinated, as our information suggests that when the Hungarian leadership was informed about it on Friday morning, the international media had already sent them questions.

Considering that in these kinds of intelligence games, both sides, Ukrainian and Hungarian, may have an interest in discrediting the other or engaging in disinformation, these stories are particularly susceptible to requiring a high degree of skepticism when evaluating information. However, it is clear that there is serious tension between the services of the two countries, and in recent times, more Ukrainian intelligence officers than before have been detected in Hungary. “There will likely be a response to the Ukrainians’ recent move,” our sources said.

Hungary currently amass its Army on his western borders now.

“Amass” is a strong word, what is your source? Currently there’s an espionage scandal going on, and they try to use it to influence the next election.

“Time is a flat circle” etc.

I think they are orchestrating the coalition stuff, the 30 day ceasefire demand, and Trump’s sanction threats to create a situation where there is no easy response for Russia. They can either accept a defeat, or lash out and look like the bad guy.

What do you mean? Can’t Russia just keep grinding towards victory on the battlefield? They have the upper hand, and sanctions are ineffective

The Oreshnik threat is there to remind Starmer et al, that there is no victory on the cards for the West if there’s real escalation

Not that Starmer et al are rational actors

1. It’s strange that they would publicise it, since officially Hungary and Ukraine are not antagonistic, countries usually sweep this shit under the rug

2. I’m pretty fucking sure Ukraine is crawling with Western spies, but then Ukraine is a vassal of the US anyway

The Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) claims to have uncovered what it calls a Hungarian military spy network in western Ukraine and arrested two Hungarian citizens. The Ukrainian newspaper Kyiv Post and the Swedish TV channel Svt Nyheter, citing the SBU, reported that the two arrested individuals were recruited by the Hungarian secret service to carry out the operations. They were previously employed by the Ukrainian army and are now charged with treason, they wrote.

“The task was to gather information on the military security of Transcarpathia, to find vulnerable points in the region’s land and air defense, and to study the socio-political views of the local population: in particular, scenarios for their behavior if Hungarian troops enter the region,” the SBU wrote.

We contacted the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade to find out if they confirm the information and how they comment on it, and we will report it as soon as we receive an answer.

According to SBU information, the recruiter of the two arrested agents is a member of the Hungarian counterintelligence, whose exact identity is also known, but the public report does not mention it.

About one of the arrested agents, it is revealed that he is 40 years old, once served as a soldier in the Beregszász district, and was a sleeper agent who was recruited in 2021 and activated last September, Unian wrote.

update:

Hungary has expelled two Ukrainian diplomats who were operating as spies at the embassy in Budapest. This action comes in response to what Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó called Kyiv’s persistent smear campaigns against Hungary.

Afaik Stalin is resoposible for more deaths than Hitler

I have no issues with actual nazis getting punished for what they did.

The point was this: the Victims of Communism numbers people throw around in debates are highly inflated since it contains unborn children and Nazi war criminals as well.

I did not deny it; a leading Western Stalin scholar did. You simply chose not to educate yourself and instead spewed ignorant propaganda.

But “lesser” evil doesn’t necessarily mean the evil was small.

You are right, the USA and the UK were the lesser evil compared to the Nazis, but we should never forget their crimes against humanity, just as we should never forget the flaws of the Soviets, still, the USSR was the lesser evil in the Cold War.

Glad we are clear on that, not sure why you brought up Nazi apologist talking points before like:

Neither [Nazi Germany or the USSR] was much better than the other.

It’s important that you visit memorials erected to in the memory of the Victims of Communism, sometimes there are hundreds of names there. I once checked a near one, and decided to google some of the names of the people the evil russkies took to the Gulags. It’s so weird how often they were Axis soldiers accused of heinous war crimes! But Axis soldiers could never! Must have been fabricated!

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These real people are on actual Victims of Communism (VoC) websites, and after just 5 minutes of searching, I found the crimes they were tried and found guilty of.

Case 1

In 1942, he was appointed district leader in the Budapest District XII organization of the Arrow Cross Party, and from October 15, 1944, he served in the armed party service. Between November 28, 1944, and January 14, 1945, he participated in the apprehension, robbery, assault, and unlawful execution of several hundred people considered Jewish in District XII of Budapest and on the Buda bank of the Danube.

Case 2

From June 1942 to January 1943, he served as the deputy commander of the 101/5 forced labor company. On the Eastern Front, he treated forced laborers cruelly and ordered his subordinates to do the same. Through his intervention, the so-called “leper section” was created, to which only sick forced laborers were assigned. He was dissatisfied with their work performance, so he denied them food and medical care. As a result of his actions, only 22 out of the company’s 260 personnel survived.

Case 3

Following the Arrow Cross takeover, he became a party serviceman and then deputy to Géza Horváth, the IX district party leader. However, Illés exercised the actual power in the district. He decided the fate of the people brought into the district Arrow Cross house. He interrogated the persecuted under severe abuse and then, under the pretext of transporting them to the ghetto, gave the order for their execution. On December 19, 1944, he conducted a raid on St. Stephen’s Hospital with several party servicemen, from where they abducted 40 people and handed them over to the party servicemen of District II, who executed them on the banks of the Danube. All valuables were taken from the people brought into the Arrow Cross house, of which Illés kept a record. On one occasion, he had a cartload of stolen goods transported from the house at 39 Lónyai Street.

Ever heard of Holodomor?

Have you?

Just between February and July 1933, [Stalin] signed or countenanced nearly three dozen small allocations of food aid to the countryside, primarily to the North Caucasus and Ukraine, as well as the Kazakh lands (which necessitated sharp reductions in the bread rations for city dwellers, many of whom were put on the brink of starvation). All of these actions were woefully insufficient for avoiding the mass starvation in the countryside caused by his policies, in the face of challenging natural conditions. Still, these actions do not indicate that he was trying to exterminate peasants or ethnic Ukrainians. In the Kazakh autonomous republic, probably between 35 and 40 percent of the titular nation—as compared with 8 to 9 percent of Slavs there—perished from starvation or disease, not because the regime targeted Kazakhs by ethnicity, but because regime policy there consisted of forced denomadization. Similarly, there was no “Ukrainian” famine; the famine was Soviet.

• Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941 by Stephen Kotkin published in October 2017 by Penguin Random House

This is a very mainstream Stalin biography by a Princeton professor.

Have you heard what the French did to Algerians?

Atrocities committed against Algerians by the French army during the war included indiscriminate shootings into civilian crowds (such as during the Paris massacre of 1961), execution of civilians when rebel attacks occurred, bombings of villages suspected of helping the FLN,removed, disembowelment of pregnant women, imprisonment without food in small cells (some of which were small enough to impede lying down), throwing detainees from helicopters and into the sea with concrete on their feet, and burying people alive. Torture methods included beatings, mutilations, burning, hanging by the feet or hands, torture by electroshock, waterboarding, sleep deprivation and sexual assaults.

Now you’ll say this is whataboutism, but if you always bring up an imaginary genocide like the Holodomor when someone talks about the USSR or Russia, but you never mention this actual mass murder when someone talks about France then you are a giant hypocrite.

The West was worse by their own metrics of bodycount.

Afaik

Afaik: written abbreviation for as far as I know: used when you believe that something is true, but you are not completely certain. Internet, email and texting conventions.

See the thing is, you don’t know shit

I could go line by line, but the main point still stands: are you lost? Do lemmy devs support the Sudan genocide? Are lemmy devs Taliban?

You are just terrible at communicating your point

Again, are you lost? OP said lemmy devs support genocide, & since the largest genocide today is perpetrated by Israel with US support, I was curious what OP meant

What the fuck does your comment has to do with lemmy or Israel? You seem confused

Amnesty International investigation concludes Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza

Arab settlements in Iran proliferated after the wars of conquest that destroyed the Sasanian empire.

The Sassanids ffs? You seem very confused about the relevancy of certain topics

you act like only theocratic zionists are settlers

What the fuck are you even talking about? Are you lost?

If not supporting genocide and authoritarianism

They support Israel?