{"id":37767,"date":"2018-09-14T06:46:47","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T11:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37767"},"modified":"2018-09-14T06:46:47","modified_gmt":"2018-09-14T11:46:47","slug":"never-go-nuclear-the-eu-goes-after-hungary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37767","title":{"rendered":"Never Go Nuclear \u2014 The EU Goes After Hungary"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tomluongo.me\/2018\/09\/12\/never-go-nuclear-the-eu-goes-after-hungary\/\">Never Go Nuclear \u2014 The EU Goes After Hungary<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>If there is one thing people with power always do when confronted with intransigence it is they always go nuclear.<\/p>\n<p>As a parent we\u2019ve all been there.\u00a0 That moment when your child calls your bluff on a particular thing you\u2019ve been arguing over and you\u2019re left with no other option than to go through with some terrible threat or back down.<\/p>\n<p>Backing down is usually the right call, but the right course of action was to never get to that situation in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>Because when you do go nuclear the damage from that is invariably far worse than whatever it was you were fighting about in the first place.\u00a0 Because the nuclear option creates scars.\u00a0 It builds layers of distrust which cannot be smoothed over with an apology later.<\/p>\n<p>Well, now the EU has invoked their version of\u00a0<em><strong>nuclear option\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/438308-orban-hungary-europe-article-7\/\">Hungary for refusing to accept migrants<\/a> as part of the Soros\/Merkel plan to import chaos and unrest into all corners of the European Union.<\/p>\n<p>Hungarian President Viktor Orban has steadfastly refused to budge one inch on this issue.\u00a0 He has politically gone after George Soros directly by passing a strong anti-NGO law that takes its structure from a similar one passed in Russia championed by President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<p>Orban\u2019s refusal to accept one migrant is where the rubber of national sovereignty meets the road of globalism.\u00a0 Orban knows exactly what he is doing.\u00a0 And he knows the consequences of this course of action.<\/p>\n<p>The EU\u2019s response is a symptom of a much deeper problem that persists due to its fundamentally anti-democratic structure.\u00a0 With the veneer of democracy here, calling for a vote to ratify a biased report on Hungary\u2019s human rights abuses, 487 MEPs voted to pursue stripping Hungary of its voting rights within the EU, which is what the ultimate result of an Article 7 invocation would entail.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Never Go Nuclear \u2014 The EU Goes After Hungary If there is one thing people with power always do when confronted with intransigence it is they always go nuclear. As a parent we\u2019ve all been there.\u00a0 That moment when your child calls your bluff on a particular thing you\u2019ve been arguing over and you\u2019re left [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[281,284,20914,408,4600,16963],"class_list":["post-37767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-europe","tag-european-union","tag-gold-goats-n-guns","tag-hungary","tag-migration","tag-tom-luongo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37768,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37767\/revisions\/37768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}