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Information Sovereignty
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31 October 2024
13 April 2023
For days, there has been huge speculation about possible American sanctions against Hungary. So far, only a Russian entity is involved – but it is more likely to be the beginning rather than the end of the story.
Since last summer, the Hungarian government has been claiming that American-Russian peace talks shall end the war in Ukraine. Around the same time, the propaganda machine launched a campaign claiming that US Democrats tried to interfere with Hungarian elections by funding the opposition. Then, Fidesz’s anti-sanctions campaign began, labelling the US and the EU as warmongers, a narrative which lives on to this day.
Last autumn, a new ambassador, David Pressman, arrived in Budapest and immediately got caught in the crossfire, with Orbán calling him the man who came to pressure us, with the pun fully intended.