‘Hungary, Europe!’ Spontaneous chant I just heard on streets of Budapest … Supermajority means Tisza really can dismantle the Orban system… and Orban has conceded… It will be a tough road ahead but truly hard to imagine a better result… I’ll be writing about it soon…
Orban concedes defeat. The support of Trump, Vance, Putin, Lavrov, Weidel, Milei, Le Pen, Fico, Babis and many others could not overcome Hungarian anger at a stagnant, corrupt regime www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Hungary election live: Viktor Orbán concedes defeat in Hungarian election after 16 years in power
Long-serving prime minister beaten by opposition after early results showed clear lead
theguardian.com
This response from a Greenlandic politician to Trump’s Greenland plans is outstanding youtu.be/DMPe_e-WRMk?...
Greenlandic Politician Shows Mirror To Trump Over Island Invasion Plan: 'He Doesn't Know About...'
YouTube video by Hook Global
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A great piece by a fellow Europtimist @tobiasgehrke.bsky.social, recommending a new transatlantic deterrence model ”MAD: mutual asymmetric dependency” that gives Europe actually quite a lot of cards to play (in addition to all the eggs). Europe might even trigger the ”bazooka”…
Brussels hold’em: European cards against Trumpian coercion
Faced with an aggressive United States, Europe has more leverage than it realises. Across trade, technology, infrastructure, finance and people-to-people relations it has ways of retaliating…
ecfr.eu
An article worth reading. S Frederick Starr was one of the few academics/analysts to understand that the USSR was collapsing. nationalinterest.org/feature/ukra...
Ukraine and Russia’s Collapsing Home Front
Western observers are neglecting important developments: Judging by what is being said on Russia’s home front, Putin has already lost the war and the only question is what face-saving measures can be ...
nationalinterest.org
