Turkey and Hungary seem to be rethinking their Russia-friendly stances.
Last month, Politico reported that Orbán told a group of foreign conservative figures that time was on Russia's side in the war in Ukraine, calling the war-torn country"the land of nobody" and openly questioning its sovereignty.
But the latest apparent change of direction for Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Hungary's Orbán shows that, as the war drags on for longer than anyone would have expected at its start, evenin Europe are being forced to reconsider what's more convenient, strategically, for their countries.
While Turkey kept a good balance last year between keeping its ties with Russia without completely angering Europe and the U.S., this position now seems increasingly untenable. Turkey's defiant resistance to the punitive measures imposed by the U.S. and the EU on Russia threatened to cost the country's companies and banks to be punished for contravening sanctions, as Brian Nelson, the U.S.
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