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Podcast Appearances
And Donald Tusk basically picked up the phone and said, welcome back to Europe.
Have a listen.
I'm so happy.
And I think that if you see it as a tug of war, which many did last night, this is between the EU and Russia.
And up till this point, Hungary has been pulled or has lent into Putin's Russia.
You know, they blocked the EU bailout that was going to go to release funds for Ukraine to help it with its war efforts.
And suddenly OrbΓ‘n's gone.
And the prospect of Ukraine getting a whole load more money from the EU now looks very possible.
Could that be a massive boost to Ukraine in helping it try and win the war against Putin?
I mean, interesting enough, I mentioned Peter Sajata, who's the Hungarian foreign minister.
No one knows where he is.
today, right?
No one knows where he's gone.
And the rumors have started, albeit on Twitter, that he might have just fled to Moscow.
He's not behind Orban anymore.
He's kind of in disgrace here, which I think is a reflection of that sort of shift you can feel now.
I mean, Hungarians don't traditionally particularly like Ukraine.
That goes way back to sort of ethnic divisions as much as anything with Hungarians living in Ukraine.
But they really don't like Russia either.
They don't like Putin's Russia.