🇪🇺 Erasmus Mendax

Journalist, historian. Author of The Cinnabar Codex, a literary journal about European culture and civilisation.

[🇪🇺 Erasmus Mendax @LEGXIIIGEM]

THE HUNGARIAN LESSON

Hungary lecturing others about sovereignty is a bit like a long-term houseguest giving a TED Talk on home ownership while still asking where you keep the spare towels.

I mean, sure, the word sounds great when you’re @PM_ViktorOrban and you roll it around your mouth in front of the cameras. But historically? From the Battle of Mohács onward, Hungary’s political biography reads more like "subject to landlord approval". Ottomans first, then Habsburgs, later the Austro-Hungarian compromise… which was autonomy in the same way a teenager is independent while living off their parents’ fridge and allowance.

From the 16th century until 1918, give or take a rebellion here, a crushed uprising there, Hungary existed in that cozy historical niche called "vassal but make it complicated". Roughly 400 years of being managed, supervised, or politely ignored by bigger powers with better armies and louder opinions. That’s almost double the whole history of the United States.

So when Viktor “Shorty” Orban climbs on a soapbox to explain sovereignty to the rest of the world, it’s hard not to squint and ask: whose sovereignty, exactly? Because for centuries, Hungarian "importance on the world stage" mostly consisted of being the stage where other empires performed. And today is no different, with no less than THREE world powers claiming a bit of Hungary through various deals and combinations - Russia, The US, China.

Which is fine, history is messy, nobody gets a clean résumé. But maybe, just maybe, a country whose longest uninterrupted tradition is called "answering to someone else" isn’t the most natural authority on national self-determination. At the very least, it should come with a disclaimer.
(Image: Székely Bertalan - Battle of Mohacs)

[Orbán Viktor @PM_ViktorOrban]

🇭🇺 Hungary votes soon. The stakes go far beyond our borders. Ukraine sees us as the obstacle standing between them and EU membership. They want us out of the way.

We stand for a patriotic government. Our own people come first, no exceptions.
❌ NO to Ukraine’s accession.
❌ NO to sending Hungarian funds to Ukraine.

Other countries can throw cash at Ukraine if they want. Just don't do it through the EU, and not at our expense.

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@Alex_Oloyede2 Meanwhile, the brothers:

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@sashameetsrus Only interlopers, idiots, pimps and nazi scum is on your list. So you missed the Tate brothers.

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@johnnyjmils No, the muzhiks spent too much time under the Mongol yoke. Their leadership might have been pro-European at some point in history, but the larger population has a mentality more fitting for the Asian steppes than for Europe.

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@nightwatcherT "Leading in the polls" means nothing. It has the same value as claiming to win the presidency after winning the first round of the presidential elections.

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@vtchakarova You're saying this as if treaties can't be changed or amended by those who signed them in the first place. What kind of strategist are you?

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Romania has made its choice clear: the EU, NATO, and (maybe) the Strategic Partnership with the United States - meaning real security, investment, and respect.

The so-called sovereigntists dream of a "sovereign Romania" allied with the world's pariah states: Putin's Russia, Xi's China, African dictators, and terrorist regimes. That is geopolitical suicide. They want an isolated, weak, and easily manipulated Romania, exactly the model the Kremlin has promoted in Serbia, Hungary, and Georgia.

The Romanian people have seen this before, in 1940 and again in 1947. We must not allow a handful of former political barons - whatever their party name might be - to sell us out to the Russians once more under the label of patriotism.

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@AdaLluch Then fuck off to Moscow, I'm sure they will let you film controversial videos in the State Duma, dumbass muzhik.

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@BowesChay @RealCandaceO Nobody gives a fuck about Russia except those paid with blood kopeks.

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A sovereign Europe is a strong Europe. And viceversa.

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🇺🇸 Pete Hegseth: "The era of the United States subsidizing the defense of wealthy nations is over. We need partners, not protectorates. We seek alliances built on shared responsibility, not dependency."

Great, so that means the US won't expect Europe to just agree with everything they say, also invest hundreds of billions in European defense, not in American companies. Fine by me!

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@BowesChay Vwry important take from someone who has sold himself for a few kopecks to Russia and spends his days supporting a murdering regime responsible for the deaths of thousands of civilians.

[🇪🇺 Erasmus Mendax @LEGXIIIGEM]

A federal Europe is a free Europe.

[Frid 🇪🇺🦌 @Frid45]

“ Make us sovereign, and the only way to do it is together. From Portugal to Ukraine,

Let’s create the United States of Europe!“

The choice for Europeans is simple: federate or perish. And I am convinced Europeans will choose to unite Europe.

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@BowesChay Nobody cares about Moscow, except Ukrainian drone pilots.

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A bit of a history lesson for muzhiks.

[🇷🇴 Cristache Suru 🇪🇺 @Saptecai]

Când mai auziți vreun prăjit ogind cum că ucrainenii nu există și sunt, de fapt, ruși, dați-i să citească bucățica asta de articol de mai jos. E mai 1884 și ucrainenii există bine-mersi, în ciuda "jugului absolutist al muscalilor".

"»Telegraphulŭ« află că a apărutŭ la Geneva o nouă programă politico-socială scrisă de d. Dragomanoff, leaderulŭ partidei rutene. Acéstă broșură sě adreséză cătră popórele ce locuiescŭ în sudulŭ Rusiei și carĭ suntŭ Românĭ din Basarabia, Polonĭ, Ucrainenĭ, (rutenĭ) coloniștĭ germânĭ și Evrei. Eruditulŭ profesorŭ rusŭ propune compunerea uneĭ federațiunĭ a acestorŭ popóre, supuse adĭ jugului absolutistŭ alŭ muscalilorŭ."
- Gazeta Transilvaniei, 12 mai 1884

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@MAGAVoice Wait for it...

[🇪🇺 Erasmus Mendax @LEGXIIIGEM]

Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini wrote the first detailed account of Central European geography before becoming Pope Pius II. He was also the last pope to seriously plan a crusade. The humanist and the medieval coexisted in one man without apparent discomfort.

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@PM_ViktorOrban I thought I heard someone talk, but it was just Viktor Orban.

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United Europe FTW!

[PanEuropeanMovement @EuropeanPan]

Anti-EU slopulism got defeated, Europe is rearming, and countries from Iceland to Armenia are lining up to join the European Union.

Pan-Europa is our destiny!

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@WhiteHouse Wow, good to know the Trump administration is more interested in AI slop than in doing something for the Americans.

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@nicksortor Just fuck off already, you hillbillies been talking about leaving for a year now.