On Tuesday, Bloomberg News said it had obtained a Hungarian government transcript of a call that took place between Orbán and Putin on 17 October, in which Orbán reportedly compared the relationship to that of a “mouse” standing ready to help the Russian “lion” as needed.
“Yesterday our friendship rose to such a high level that I can help in any way,” Orbán reportedly told Putin in the call. “In any matter where I can be of assistance, I am at your service.”
In an attempt to emphasise his point, Orbán was said to have made reference to one of Aesop’s fables in which a mouse who was earlier shown mercy by a lion goes on to free the same lion when it is netted by hunters. The remark drew a laugh from Putin, the transcript suggested.
Orban has been a cuck for Silicon Valley and the Western plutocrats longer than he’s been a Putin stan.
Given that there’s a straight line between America’s fascists and Russia’s fascists, that shouldn’t come as a surprise.
But liberals keep insisting Putin is a regionalized phenomenon contained East of Ukraine. Not a model for modern fascist politicians the world over.