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Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting by squarefoot on Saturday March 01, 2025 @02:38AM (#43216935)
He has veto power as Hungary is part of the EU. It might sound strange from the point of view of the big guy that doesn't even recognize the International Criminal Court, but in the EU small countries have a voice too, although in this case it sadly works against the common good.
Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting by nkmnz on Saturday March 01, 2025 @02:51AM (#43217017)
We (Germany) don’t need Hungary to order a thousand Taurus and a hundred thousand Drones and hand them to Ukraine. We don’t need Hungary to negotiate a nuclear umbrella with France. We don’t need Hungary to cancel F35, which will probably never be delivered anyways. Hungary, on the other Hand, needs Germany to pay most of their bills. It’s time to give Orban a taste of his own style.
Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting by imcritic on Saturday March 01, 2025 @04:19AM (#43217553)
You, Germany, need Hungary selling you Russian LNG, as you, Germany put your head up into your ass with sanctions against Russia.

You either change your position or your economy will continue to degrade and more of your factories will get closed and you will lose more positions on the market of automobiles and will get higher unemployment rate and higher unrest levels. And given your multicultural policy of welcoming Muslim immigrants - the unrest may get accelerated with just a few more "incidents" where someone rides into a crowd again or decides to start a jihad on some street in one of your cities.

Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting by weavejester on Saturday March 01, 2025 @07:41AM (#43218694)
Change their position how, exactly? Are you arguing for more or less sanctions?
Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting by imcritic on Monday March 03, 2025 @04:14PM (#43246818)
Depends on whether Germany wants to participate in a war or prefers peace and good relations with countries important to their economy (either as one that sells them something or as one whose territory could be used as a market for the goods you produce and sell).
Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting by lm28469 on Saturday March 01, 2025 @08:48AM (#43219196)
Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting by SecretDreams on Saturday March 01, 2025 @09:32AM (#43219561)
Wow, the pro Russia brigading on this forum today is incredible. Absolutely wild.
Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting by smcin on Saturday March 01, 2025 @03:45PM (#43223509)
It's no more "strange" than US Senators from Wyoming or N Dakota or Vermont or Alaska having a veto. To pick one example, the US Senate veto is why the US consistently refused to recognize the Armenian genocide for many decades.

Hungary by no means has a veto on everything. The 27 EU member states vote on most issues by qualified majority (55% of member states = 15 countries, and >= 65% of total population). On a narrow set of issues (foreign, defense, finance, treaties, EU enlargement) they have a veto.

Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting by cmurf on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @10:18PM (#43262233)
Senators do not have a veto. They have a vote.