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Orban, honey, this isn't how you are supposed to play the game.

sparking fears of supply shortages in Budapest

Nobody saw it coming...

Use Megamind's cranium to reflect the sun onto solar panels.

Jesus Christ what a head. It's like an orange on a toothpick!

Do you hear some kind of whiny annoying dictator noise?

Who would have thought that relying on fossil fuel from a country invading the middleman between you is a bad idea? I'm shocked!

How about no.

Fuck you Hungary, you fascist shithole.

Well well well, if it isn't the consequences of my own actions...

Yeah I'm sure the ukrainians are going to get right on that.

The EU should prepare some sort of a resolution and then one country should just veto it.

Let’s see how orban menages a country without fuel.

Oh gosh, I am so sorry, nevermind.

This is why you don't put all your eggs in one basket. Over reliance on a single source for anything is just asking for things to go wrong.

No :)

Wait.... What?

Now EU is something you care about?

Maybe you shouldn't have gone on a bootlicking tour trying to pose as a representative for European foreign politics ?

“Ukraine’s decision fundamentally threatens the security of supply in Hungary,” the country’s Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said Monday

Oh my God!!! I can't possibly imagine them being concerned about anything more serious than that right now!!!

This is the best summary I could come up with:

BRUSSELS — Hungary on Monday said it had asked the European Union to take action against Ukraine for imposing a partial ban on Russian oil exports, arguing the move was jeopardizing Budapest’s energy security.

Kyiv last month adopted sanctions blocking the transit to Central Europe of pipeline crude sold by Moscow’s largest private oil firm, Lukoil, sparking fears of supply shortages in Budapest.

The escalating diplomatic spat comes as ties between Ukraine and Hungary hit rock-bottom, with Kyiv last week lashing out at Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán for meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin within a self-styled “peace mission.”

The ban means the country's central Slovnaft refinery would “receive 40 percent less oil than it needs,” Fico said, arguing it would also reduce Slovak fuel exports to Ukraine that make up a 10th of Kyiv's consumption.

Following Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, the EU banned imports of Russian oil arriving at the bloc by sea, but allowed landlocked countries like Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic to continue buying supplies via the Russia-to-Europe Druzhba pipeline until they could find an alternative solution.

But Budapest, which has angered Ukraine by holding up EU sanctions against Russia and has stalled Kyiv’s attempts to join the bloc, hasn't tried to find other options, said Isaac Levy, an analyst at the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air think tank.

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I would be surprised if the EU members have no fuel left to share. Hungarian Fidesz knows this, so this is either a very bad PR campaign for their dictatorship ("the EU is about to get us") or a deliberate attack on Ukraine and EU foreign policy.

Obviously, the EU hasn't the spine to eject Hungary, so Putin's Ally/Representative in the EU will remain disabling the EU's strategy, in all ways possible..

I wonder how many extra thousands of EU troops will die in the escalations of Russia's aggression, through the next decade(s), as a result of their current-spinelessness?

( remember the English appeasers of Hitler helped the Nazis, & remember that Stalin was providing supplies to the Nazis right up until the day they invaded Russia. Having spine enough to do what is correct/proper isn't common-enough )

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Well the EU as a whole got severely fucked by the sanctions mean to cripple Russia's economy, so Hungary should shut up and take it as a sign of solidarity.