>>508628986Orban has a vague affinity for Putin's authoritarian approach to governing vs liberal parliamentarianism but he really uses his ties with Kremlin as a wedge against the EU to try to maintain some token form of sovereignty but is perfectly willing to drop it when he feels that playing closer to the EU is in his benefit.
the deeply self serving nature of the bizarre amalgam of countries that oppose the West is their biggest failing and why they routinely fail to manifest any sort of existential challenge to it, they immediately backstab each other as soon as it is beneficial. look at Russia and China leaving Iran out to dry despite it being a supposed pillar of this new multipolar movement, or the Chinese slowly pulling the Russian domestic market into its orbit so it will nearly impossible to reclaim after the war, or Russia just letting Syria implode, or Turkey using the Ukraine war to bend Russia over a barrel, or India only paying for Russian oil with money Russia can only withdraw from the Indian banks it is held by if it is spent inside of India itself. turns out a random assortment of communist, theocratic, and secular statists dont have any real ideological bonds holding them together and their intensely personalistic leadership styles means it the supposedly binding treaties and agreements between them get dropped as soon as they stop being convenient.