In a departure that carries the weight of years of calculated alignment, Hungary has expelled ten Russian diplomats from Budapest — a gesture that places Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's government, for the first time in a long while, on the same side of a visible line as its European and NATO partners. Whether born of genuine conviction, external pressure, or strategic maneuvering, the move asks a question that only time can answer: has one of Europe's most consequential outliers begun to find its way back toward the center?