• schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 days 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.

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      2 days 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.