Berlin toadies to Saudi regime

The German government apparently wants to sell 200 Leopard battle tanks to Saudi Arabia. Western states continue to abandon their democratic principles in their dealings with dictatorial states, writes the left-liberal daily Népszabadság: "Idealism is seldom to be found in geopolitics while the immorality of politics is staggering. The liberal democracies are basically prepared to fraternise with any power whenever it suits their financial interests. Hungary is a conspicuous example: ... The otherwise so fiercely anti-communist Viktor Orbán wished the Chinese dictatorship the following:  that it continue to pursue the same policies with which it has achieved fantastic successes in recent decades. The arms deals of the Germans and the kowtowing of the Orbán government to China are based on the very opportunism they will have to justify to their voters."

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