Comments by "Anita K" (@Anita-k) on "Paul Massaro: How Russia Corrupted the West | Jake Broe Podcast (E012) @apmassaro3" video.

I'm blown away by your guest's enthusiasm! My dad fled as a minor from Hungary to Austria in 1956 and survived 2 Russian invasions ... that's why my whole family are also fully focused on supporting Ukraine, including myself of course. Slava Ukraine as well as all international fighters, medics, people involved in transporting all supplies including weapons.
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@rffromusa8319 That's true. Admittedly I didn't know much about Ukrainians and their country before this Russian invasion in the 24th of February 2022, but we all fell in love with them. & When my parents did an ancestry DNA test, I was a bit disappointed to learn I've no Ukrainian relatives. Doesn't matter though, we people from former iron curtain countries all share similar fates, mostly bad experiences with Russian rulers, so we are all brothers and sisters in a way.
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@coloerakker2 Tbh that's not too hard to explain, bc my dad lives here in Austria ever since, so he isn't as connected to Hungarian politics as he'd be, if he lived and voted there. He hears those "Orbán typical politician speeches" only occasionally and what other still local Hungarians are telling him and of course that's not the same full unfiltered impression, he'd have if he'd still live there himself. He said, initially Orbán was "well hidden", like e.g. he didn't give in, when certain countries leaders (like Putin and Lukashenka) tried to weaponize refugees, first they had lured them there mostly into Belarus, then wanted to send them through Hungarian territory, which also spared Austria lots of bureaucracy, like costs of registering them, housing them, feeding them, just to have to send them back bc those are capacities only planted for real emergencies (like what happened to Ukrainians). It's also worth mentioning, that especially Lukashenka made tons of money with human trafficking, knowing full well that our western countries simply couldn't afford to take half of Africa in ... so Austria, Hungary, plus numerous other European countries like Germany were left with paying the bills and "picking up the pieces" after their arrivals through hidden channels anyways. When the Russian invasion started though, nobody had expected that Orbán would make Europe and generally NATO such a huge amount of troubles ... & due to Orbán's previous behaviour everybody was shocked, he suddenly turned into Putin's supporter; nobody had expected that and most Hungarians my dad knows all highly doubt he'll get elected again. My dad's very unhappy with Orbán, but he's an Austrian citizen voting here and can only do his best talking to his relatives and explaining the situation to them, bc he's afraid Orbán's using Russian propaganda tactics now and maybe he also did that in an unnoticed manner in the past.
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@coloerakker2 * Edit: Weaponizing refugees isn't a new method of Russia and Belarus, although it only got more attention in (I believe) November ~2021, when Poland had to defend their borders to Belarus, bc the situation had gotten totally out of control ... but that's already been going on for at least a decade before the 2021 escalation, which had prompted Poland to start building a wall to Belarus. In a nutshell, Lukashenka had promised refugees from Africa, the Arabic speaking countries, etc, that they're going to get an easy passage from Belarus into the western European countries like Germany etc and promised them good jobs and life in heaven there, which was all part of his human trafficking scam.
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@coloerakker2 Lol I hope the same!
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