• ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml
    21·
    10 days ago

    Once Russia defeats Ukraine, I think it’s very possible that Hungary and Slovakia are going to end up exiting the EU and joining BRICS. Right now, they’re surrounded by hostile countries, and have no direct route to the east, but once Ukraine falls the situation changes completely. And I think at that point, other countries might follow as well.

  • FortifiedAttack [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    10·
    10 days ago

    This article is from December 10th 2025. This is already old hat five times over.

    Since this article was put out, we’ve had:

    • The EU agree to a €90 billion loan package, not taken from frozen Russian funds but instead funded by borrowing from the EU capital market.
    • The USA illegaly invade Venezuela and kidnap Maduro.
    • Two innocent American citizens being shot dead by ICE agents, triggering large scale protests in Minneapolis.
    • The USA threatening to annex Greenland again, throwing the EU into a brief panic before it was all quickly forgotten like last year.
    • The USA and Israel starting an illegal war against Iran, throwing the world economy into turmoil, which is currently ongoing.

    And it’s only been 3 months! Safe to say that absolutely nobody cares about Belgium anymore.

    • cfgaussian@lemmygrad.mlOP
      472·
      10 days ago

      The EU is supposed to be this democratic entity that respects the sovereignty of members, yet as soon as a country, like Hungary, steps out of line and refuses to be forced to send money and weapons to the Nazi Kiev regime, refuses to sacrifice their own energy security for the sake of the EU’s anti-Russia crusade, the EU immediately starts rewriting its own rules, does away with unanimity requirements, and tries to take away Hungary’s vote (in addition to taking away Hungary’s EU funds, funding opposition parties, trying for years to overthrow its government).

      Now that Belgium has recently opposed stealing Russian frozen reserves, which would irreparably trash the credibility of European financial institutions (many of which are located in Belgium) and precipitate a major crisis, the EU is threatening to treat them the same way: as a rogue element to be crushed and forced back in line.

      We already know that the EU blatantly rigs elections in member states, they did it just recently in Romania and Moldova in the most obvious way. It is clear that it is becoming increasingly desperate and tyrannical in trying to enforce a central political line and prevent members from exercising national sovereignty.

      The more that the economic crisis in Europe spirals, the more of this type of dysfunction and internal conflict we will see. The more the pie shrinks the more everyone will fight over the pieces. The EU is crumbling under the weight of its own contradictions and the defeat of NATO’s proxy war in Ukraine has accelerated that process.

      What is most surprising about this is that it’s a Western European country that is in the crosshairs this time. This is unusual in terms of the racist hierarchy that exists in the EU where normally the Eastern and Southern European members, being effectively internal colonies of the EU, are on the receiving end of EU financial, legal and administrative punishment.

    • TheOctonaut@piefed.zipEnglish
      127·
      10 days ago

      It’s important that you understand when framing your response, that the other guy actually believes the thing’s hes saying.