A large number of EU resolutions on Ukraine are being blocked by Hungary, said Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis.

Hungary is digging in and refusing to wave through billions in military aid for Ukraine, prompting growing dismay among other EU countries.

"I have to calm myself [when] I talk about this issue, because it’s getting really ridiculous now,” a senior EU diplomat said of the standoff with Hungary, speaking before Monday’s meeting of EU foreign ministers. “What’s happening is outrageous.”

Diplomats had hoped to have a new €6.6 billion package ready ahead of this week’s meetings of foreign and defense ministers in Brussels. The deal included €860 million for arms procurement, reported by POLITICO last week.

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      It absolutely is not. Nothing Russia could possibly impose on the people is worse than an entire generation of men lost to the meat grinder and the poverty that follows this kind of economic damage. A quick loss would have a million more Ukrainians living in their homes today instead of displaced throughout the world, and a hundred thousand still alive.

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        Nothing Russia could possibly impose on the people is worse than an entire generation of men lost to the meat grinder and the poverty that follows this kind of economic damage.

        Wrong. Ask Ukraine or all the other former SU countries. They already know how it is to “live” under Russian occupation. If you’re such a fan of that, go move over there for yourself, and join VK so you can at least spare us with your moronic propaganda.

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        ROFL, spoken like a true propaganda nut job. Tell that to the people that lived under (and died horrible constant deaths and torture) Stalin, Hitler, Mao, the countless other dictators that are the idols of Putin…

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        The reducro ad adsurdum of your position is that all states should immediately surrender to any sufficiently armed state which threatens them.

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          Correct, it would be absurd to apply that analysis to all states everywhere forever without any examination of the history or nuance.

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        So the meat grinder of Russian mass murder every time they take over a city is better than fighting back?

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        Honey, Putin won’t let you suck him off no matter how hard you try. You might as well give up.