Originally Posted by
Pali
If you want to understand Orbán you should dig a bit deeper. He likes Putin's policy of revisionism because Hungary never really accepted Trianon agreement after WW1 by which they lost great swaths of land to Romania, Czechoslovakia, (later to) Ukraine and Yugoslavia. Orbán gains popularity in his country by instigating vitriolic nationalist speech and actions (giving e.g. passports to Hungarian minorities in mentioned areas the same way like Putin gave passports to Russian speaking Ukrainians in Donbas) and if Putin would in fact invade East Europe Orbán would expect some territories like admiral Horthy after Vienna Arbitration in 1938.
As a side note: Hungary sided with Hitler to gain lost territories and failed completely but that doesn't mean they will not try again. And even though Hungary is nominally NATO and EU country Orbán is hostile not only toward Ukraine but is actively destroying liberal democracy in his country. He likes Putin and Erdogan because they seem to be his political role models.
This is the picture from this site:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Vienna_Award
My thoughts exactly and have been frustrated for some while that the EU won't grow some backbone to stand up to Orban. If NATO were to have Article 5 triggered, I am not at all confident that Hungary would join in and no boubt Putrid will be counting on that