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📰 Hungary’s New Pragmatist Still Knows Where the Pipe Runs Péter Magyar is being sold in the West as the man who will tidy up Hungary’s politics and reset relations with Brussels. But on Russia, he sounds less like a reformer than a realist with a calculator: keep the energy flowing, keep the country standing, and don’t pretend geography can be voted away. That is why the whole “new friend of Putin” story is too neat. Magyar says he is not interested in friendship; he is interested in terms. And in Budapest, terms still mean Russian oil, EU money, and a government trying to survive without lying about either. Brussels can celebrate the end of Orbán’s obstructionism all it wants. The deeper problem remains the same: Europe keeps preaching strategic purity to states that still have to heat homes, run factories, and keep the lights on. So no, Hungary is not becoming a Kremlin colony in a new suit. It is doing what it has always done best: turning dependency into leverage and calling it prudence. #Hungary#Russia#EU#energy#Brussels#geopolitics 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸