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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Depends what they mean by "traditionally" and its iimplications. Did it use to be Hungarian? Sure, at some point it was. So if by "traditionally" they mean "formerly", fine. It'd be an interesting move if neighboring countries (Ukraine) agreed to this, provided that Hungary at the same time relinquished any claim on the same territory, and Orban got his tongue out of Putins ass.

After all, there are many territories that is "traditionally" part of a different country. Karelia, Königsberg, Northern Ireland, Tibet, Hawaii, just to name a few. But the world has (mostly) moved on out of pragmatism.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Pragmatism here mainly meaning not wanting to be murdered by an occupying white supremacist state.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Hungarians are too clingy to Trianon, even today. They seem to think that these territories were actually traditionally Hungarian, despite being ethnically and culturally different but a very infamous census made in 1910 considered all these people Hungarian because they spoke the language to some extent.