Thread by @erdelyipe

Why is Zelenskyy being portrayed in the HUN govt media as a brutal dictator trying to destabilize the region by starting a war on orders from the US? A short thread. 1/9

Zelenskyy addressed EU leaders Thursday evening calling out HUN PM Viktor Orban over his decision not to let weapons through to Ukraine and blocking sanctions on the RUS energy sector. 2/9

Orban’s office responded Friday morning saying the PM refused Zelenskyy’s demands bc they are against Hungary’s interest. The govt media machine also kicked into gear and within a few hours 3/9

A popular govt aligned FB page (100+k followers) “Számok - a baloldali álhírek ellenszere” (Numbers - Antidote for left wing fake news) responded early Friday morning in a lengthy post. facebook.com/szamokadatok/p… 4/9

This claims Zelenskyy is a “dictator” who spent “years killing his own people with tanks”. It says Zelenskyy is holding 150 thousand ethnic Hungarians living in Transcarpathia hostage. “Our message to you: you are going to fail, along with your masters from overseas” 5/9

Two hours later Philip Rákay, a high profile govt media personality and honored guest at high level party meetings, also a member of the partially state funded “Megafon” group also posted about Zelenskyy’s remarks on Facebook. 6/9

facebook.com/rakay.philip/p…

The first sentence reads: “My message to Zelenskyy and the networks: leave my country alone!” The post claims Zelenskyy is part of a network along with HUN oppo parties and politicians “and fellow network agents” that are trying to drag HUN into war. 7/9

The most liked comment (1+k likes) is by a verified account of a Hungarian pop musician Lotfi Begi saying “The US has been playing from this script for decades, they did this in the Middle-East for years, but did not succeed, and they are not going to succeed now.” 8/9

Rákay responds by claiming the US is trying to destabilize the region, cutting it off from Russian energy in order to be able to sell more LNG to Europe. 9/9