OPINION: Freedom-loving Hungarians have rejected the Putin-Orban-Trump troika
April 12 saw the beginning of the unraveling of a chummy troika of one-man rule among Russia’s Vladimir Putin, Hungary’s Victor Orban and America’s Donald Trump. Over the past decade or so, each leader has been in a different stage of gaining complete control of all levers of power in their respective countries. Hungarian voters dealt Orban a massive election loss on the 12th, derailing his quest for unlimited power.
Putin began consolidating power in Russia after the turn of the century and achieved absolute control following his first invasion of Ukraine in 2014. Victor Orban started his journey to one-man rule upon being elected as Prime Minister of Hungary in 2010. He became Putin’s closest friend in the European Union and used the Russian tyrant's playbook to tighten his grip over Hungary to the point of establishing a dictatorship.
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