In Austria’s Kickl, the EU has its next Orbán – POLITICO
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  • palordrolap@fedia.io
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    1 day ago

    So how do we convince each of Kickl and Orbán that the other wants to re-form the Austro-Hungarian empire and get rid of their counterpart in the process?

    The thing is with right-wing parties is that they’re more easily led to be at each other’s throats than for others. Not much more, because, well, humans, but maybe it would be enough.

    • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      1 day ago

      I mean in the 2000s a European political party made up of anti-immigration parties did fall apart because it turned out an international alliance of nationalist parties doesn’t always work that well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity,_Tradition,_Sovereignty

      But nowadays they work together quite well because they see the main enemy as being Islam.

      Nobody in Austria, least of all Kickl (the leader of a historically pan-German party) has serious ambitions to annex any part of Hungary, and I think in Hungary too the irredentist movements are more interested in places where there are still significant numbers of ethnic Hungarians (e.g. southern Slovakia) and not so much Burgenland or any other part of Austria; so that is the problem with that idea.

      • palordrolap@fedia.io
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        1 day ago

        Thanks for the sensible and in-depth response. I was reaching hard for any reason to set them against each other, and maybe went for too clumsy of an idea… That said, I’m not sure I would have been capable of a better one.