Hungary: Viktor Orban's Aggressive Soccer Scarf Disturbs European Peace – Bloomberg

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Irredentism and nationalism are demons that Europeans west of Russia thought they had slain. Hungary’s leader disabuses them of the fantasy.
It’s the map, not the scarf.
Source: Viktor Orban via Facebook 
Andreas Kluth
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Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, as self-aware Freudians like to quip. And sometimes a scarf is just a scarf, especially when it’s donned to support your country at a soccer match. But when the wearer happens to be Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban — and the said scarf depicts a map of “Greater Hungary” that implies territorial claims on neighboring countries — we have a problem. 
Orban is a far-right populist who’s been in power in his current stint since 2010. In that time, he has systematically undermined his country’s rule of law, democratic norms, civic institutions and relations with the European Union. He’s also besties with Vladimir Putin, notwithstanding the Russian president’s genocidal imperialism. And he’s a model for wannabe autocrats in the West. As for those maps of Greater Hungary, they’re an integral part of his hyper-nationalist shtick.

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