I must confess that I was wrong, deeply wrong, when, back in 2018, I wrote that Russia, and not Turkey, was the country with better conditions to join the European Union. Of course, at the time I could never have imagined that just one year later I would have to admit that Turkey is a country capable of producing scientists of high ethical standards. Even worse, four years later I would witness Russia turning into a bloodthirsty state led by a pathological liar (as Lithuania’s prime minister aptly put it), for whom torture is an act of extreme affection, repeated rape an expression of deep love, slavery equals freedom, and war is peace, exactly as in Orwell’s 1984.
Taking this into account, and considering that corrupt Hungary is a de facto (though not de jure) enemy of the European Union, the clearest proof being that “Orc Bloodymir” Putin has just congratulated Viktor Orbán, and assuming that the European Union, like the Roman Empire, does not reward traitors (Roma proditoribus non praemia), why should we not replace Hungary with Turkey?
As for corrupt Hungary, it is free to form a new (diabolical) union with its barbaric Russian friends. Meanwhile, the European Union could finally pursue the recovery of the funds that Hungarian oligarchs, such as the billionaire Lőrinc Mészáros, have siphoned from European taxpayers.
Declaration of competing interests — I must confess that Turkey’s special relationship with members of the Felis silvestris catus gang played no role in my present admission of past mistakes. After all, well before 2018 I had already been held hostage by several fierce members of that very same gang.
PS – I have no doubt that it would be far, far better to have Kenya in the European Union than Hungary. https://pachecotorgal.com/2022/04/04/our-borders-were-not-of-our-own-drawing-they-were-drawn-in-the-distant-colonial-metropoles-of-london-paris-and-lisbon/
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