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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Mon Mar 7, 2022, 01:27 PM Mar 2022

Orban allows deployment of NATO troops in western Hungary

Last edited Mon Mar 7, 2022, 03:04 PM - Edit history (1)

Source: Al Jazeera

Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban has signed a decree allowing NATO troops to be deployed in western Hungary and weapons shipments to cross its territory to other NATO member states.

The change of government policy forced by the Ukraine crisis was announced on Monday in the official gazette despite a close relationship with Russia.

The document allows the NATO Response Force to be stationed west of the Danube River and Hungarian airspace to be used for transit.

But any personnel or gear headed to Ukraine can only transit through or over Hungary if it then heads to another NATO country and then crosses that country’s border into Ukraine.

Read more: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/7/pm-orban-allows-deployment-of-nato-troops-in-western-hungary#:~:text=Hungary%E2%80%99s%20Prime%20Minister%20Viktor%20Orban%20has%20signed%20a,official%20gazette%20despite%20a%20close%20relationship%20with%20Russia.

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Orban allows deployment of NATO troops in western Hungary (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2022 OP
Nazi-loving Orban has seen the writing on the wall, it seems. Will this devastate Tucker Carlson? hlthe2b Mar 2022 #1
Great News! Obvious85 Mar 2022 #2
Putin claimed he wanted denazification IronLionZion Mar 2022 #3
K&R BlueWavePsych Mar 2022 #4

hlthe2b

(102,131 posts)
1. Nazi-loving Orban has seen the writing on the wall, it seems. Will this devastate Tucker Carlson?
Mon Mar 7, 2022, 01:34 PM
Mar 2022

I sincerely hope so, though it does little for Orban except show his pragmatism.

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