Thread by @Tatarigami_UA

The grooming of Orban's regime as a Trojan horse inside the EU and NATO is no longer speculative: it's now evidence-based, confirmed by leaked Budapest-Moscow communications. Agentstvo reports that roughly half of all Russian embassy staff maintain ties to intelligence services:

2/ The EU officially identifies Russia as one of its primary security threats. Yet Orban has been systematically distancing Hungary from both the EU and NATO, deteriorating relations with neighbors including Ukraine, while growing increasingly reliant on Russian influence.

3/ Moscow has no genuine interest in Hungary itself, or in the country's long-term wellbeing. What it wants is a lever - to undermine EU institutions, erode European support for Ukraine, and seed distrust between member states toward one of their own EU members and NATO allies

4/ Once Russian influence becomes entrenched, reversing it is very difficult. Belarus is a great example. Georgia has been heading in the same direction. Hungary knows this from the events of 1956, when Soviet tanks rolled into Budapest. Today’s version is far subtler and slower

5/ Anyone who fell under Russian influence after WW2 is still playing catch-up, decades later. Even today, former East Germany lags behind the West in many measurable ways. A Russian boot on the ground leaves consequences that linger for generations, not years.

6/ Russia courts conservative Western movements, positioning itself as a defender of tradition and Christian values. Yet Russia has some of the world's highest divorce rates, widespread drug use, and a church that functions as a foreign intelligence arm.

7/ If Ukraine falls, a Russia-aligned Hungary becomes a strategic foothold for Moscow in the heart of Europe: opening up long-term threats that are difficult to overstate. This is why Ukraine must prevail, and why Hungary must remain free from Russian dependence and control.