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Hungary, Austria, Greece added to the Economist’s list of Putin’s ‘useful idiots’ in Europe (english.nv.ua)
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The Economist magazine has compiled a ranking of European countries that are currently the biggest facilitators of the Russian regime in Europe.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The motivation might be different but the result is the same, facilitating the Russian regime financial moves.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Austria has actively worked together with russian intelligence, including to help the former wirecard CEO flee to Russia through Austria, after the whole scandal became public and investors were defrauded of billions. Western intelligence agencies stopped sharing any information with Austrian intelligence as that would end up in Russian hands.

That is a whole different level of facilitating the Russian regime than continueing to trade in non military goods.