![Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.](https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/hungary-orban-eu-ukraine-02072024-e1707313883573.jpg?w=519&h=259&crop=1)
Hungarian Prime Minister Orban’s capitulation in his standoff with the EU over aid to Ukraine revealed the extent to which his embrace of anti-liberal culture wars is a tactical gambit he is willing to ditch whenever it is necessary to protect EU handouts that fund the corrupt patronage networks on which his regime relies.