Hungary is a middle power in international affairs, owing mostly to its cultural and economic influence.[26] It is considered a developed country with a high-income economy and ranks 40th in the Human Development Index, with citizens enjoying universal health care and free-tuition secondary education.
Well it’s doing a few things right
Conscripts are a very different class from regular soldiers in Russia. They only serve one year and they’re forbidden by law from seeing combat. So why would you put that much effort into training them well?
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden will ask Congress for $33 billion to fund both humanitarian and military aid to Ukraine through September of this year, senior administration officials said Thursday.
The massive aid package will be accompanied by a proposal to Congress that it amend several longstanding criminal laws to make it easier for the U.S. to seize the assets of sanctioned Russian oligarchs, sell the seized property and funnel the proceeds to the Ukrainians.
The $33 billion includes a request for $20.4 billion in additional security and military assistance for Ukraine as well as additional money to fund U.S. efforts to bolster European security in cooperation with NATO allies.
Another portion of the $33 billion is a sum of $8.5 billion to help support the Ukrainian economy.
That total will help fund Ukraine’s government, support food, energy, and health care services for the Ukrainian people, and counter Russian disinformation and propaganda narratives. The $8.5 billion is also intended to support small- and medium-sized agricultural businesses during the fall harvest and for natural gas purchases.
not sure if anyone has any idea what a “regular” soldier is in russia. they most likely went through conscription themselves, then after one year were offered or told to sign on a contract. the contract is likely higher paying than average for their region, but not high enough for any mobility. unless of course they are loyal enough to start getting preferential treatment and side projects from their commanding officers or local “businessmen”.
Russia currently offering re-ups and elistments at like 3x yearly salary in Dagestan and other regions. And there’s always the opportunity to “supplement” one’s salary through, eg, selling fuel and military equipment with limited oversight from superiors (no NCOs).
dude, they are also offering a 17x guaranteed match. you’d be crazy NOT to go fight!
The government used the Covid-19 pandemic as a pretext for attacks on the rule of law and democratic institutions. The government has made access to asylum close to impossible, interferes with independent media and academic freedom, and undermines the rights of women and LGBT people, including blocking the implementation of the Istanbul Convention that aims to prevent violence against women. Hungary’s Roma minority face widespread and systemic discrimination. Neglect of the public health care system and deficiencies in hygiene practices in hospitals creates grave health risks for patients and may contribute to the spread of Covid-19
On 21 May Hungary took the Presidency of the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers amidst a serious national human rights, democracy and rule of law crisis which has no end in sight. Amnesty International would like to draw your attention to the human rights situation in Hungary and raise concerns about recent developments and a series of laws adopted in the last few years which curtail the enjoyment of human rights enshrined in the European Convention on Human Rightsand Fundamental Freedoms.
Such legislation has introduced new limits to the rights to family life, privacy, non-discrimination, freedom of expression, assembly and association. Moreover, it has further restricted the independence of the judiciary and undermined the rule of law. Finally, the laws introduced in the last years fail to address gender-based discrimination and guarantee gender equality in the workplace, and fail to protect women’s rights, the rights of the Roma, refugees and asylum-seekers.
It is particularly alarming that Hungary’s human rights record has significantly deteriorated during the last decade, most importantly when it comes to the treatment of LGBTI persons, asylum-seekers, refugees and homeless people. Government policy has led to a rapid shrinking of civic space and exerted a chilling effect on freedom of expression and association for journalists, civil society organisations and members of the judiciary
Yeah I had my tongue very much in cheek. It’s funny though that even hard right places like Hungary still manage to have universal healthcare and free college education while in USA#1 (with Dems in power no less) the official policy position is “lol poors”
The US fails to provide better care of it’s own than an openly oppressive regime
USA#1
come on now simply having a universal health care system doesn’t mean they have that. They die younger, have a higher infant mortality rate, etc. They also do all sorts of other awful shit.
It’s not sad that they provide basic health services for their citizens while 50 million Americans are uninsured/under-insured or about 50,000 avoidable deaths a year?
According to 2019 data, US infant mortality rate was higher per capita than Hungary
Fuck this shit. Take it out of the 800 billion dollar military budget that Congress just passed. If that doesn’t cover our worldwide “democracy” project then what the fuck is it even good for.
This is what happens when our Secretary of Defense is a guy who earned over 3 million dollars from Raytheon over the last 5 years or so.
https://twitter.com/olgatokariuk/status/1519743844841144320
Lol at the UN Secretary General going to visit Putin first. Way to humiliate yourself and legitimize an evil tyrant at the same time. Well played!
he was there to try to create humanitarian corridors out of Mariupol’. he didn’t attend a dinner or a parade or anything
Just the photo op adds legitimacy, as does him going to Russia first.
it didn’t get covered in the west as some sort of legitimacy to putin. it didn’t get the photo op that russian propaganda wanted either
Putin got to clown on him by putting him at the long table, which I think is exactly what Putin wanted.
BUT HOW ARE WE GONNA PAY FOR IT!
