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> turning away from it seems like an economic suicide

On the other hand, not turning away from it might be literal suicide.

Nah, we in NATO don’t blame landlocked countries with small economies for having, well, ambiguous relations with nearby Russia. It’s the places that have a choice, like Serbia, India, and Hungary, that are at risk of moving themselves onto our list of geopolitical rivals.

Oh, come on. The only reason you have not destroyed our economy with sanctions yet is because your oil companies have deep investments in our oil industry in western parts of the country. Additionally we cover about 50% of the world's uranium supply. Even before the war started, our khan put more than 300 people in the ground to preserve his rule (many of them random women and children; and that's according to official sources whom everyone considers to be seriously biased), and your politicians looked the other way because it didn't tip the scales far enough.

Just checked the GDPs of Serbia v Kazakhstan v Hungary.

Serbia: 63.08 billion USD (2021)

Kazakhstan: 197.1 billion USD (2021)

Hungary: 181.8 billion USD (2021)

Per google, sources include World Bank.

Hungary is doing alot of things right, not politically, but economically its becoming one of the industrial powerhouses of the EU.

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