"I have said since early 2025 that Trump is in office to solve Putin’s problems. Orban provides a template. Bloomburg published revelations that on a phone call last October, Orban reportedly told Putin 'I am in your service' - and compared himself to a mouse and Putin to a lion. Hungary’s current afflictions are the outcome of this path and these priorities."
~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat
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Orban: Made in Hungary, America, and Russia
Turns out that self-dealing, serving the Kremlin, wrecking education, and impoverishing the country are not popular governance movesRuth Ben-Ghiat (Lucid)
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"The Hungarian people have spoken.
With 37% of the vote counted — results still coming in as this is written — TISZA holds 132 seats to Fidesz’s 65 — one seat from the two-thirds supermajority required to rewrite the constitution. TISZA is winning 93 of 106 individual constituencies. Fidesz has collapsed from 87 constituency seats in 2022 to 13 tonight. Sixty-three percent of the vote is still uncounted."
~ Mike Brock
#Orbán #Hungary #Putin #Trump
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The First Domino
Mike Brock (Notes from the Circus)William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"The gerrymandered map that was supposed to make Orbán permanent didn’t just fail. It was overrun.
Viktor Orbán — the philosopher kings’ proof of concept, the strongman who made democratic backsliding look irreversible, the man JD Vance flew to Budapest to embrace four days ago — is not losing."
#Orbán #Hungary #Putin #Trump
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"He is being annihilated. And the majority that is annihilating him is on the threshold of the power to undo everything he built — the constitutional rewrites, the judicial capture, the media laws, the rigged electoral architecture itself."
#Orbán #Hungary #Putin #Trump
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"Major breaking news: the far-right has lost in Hungary. Viktor Orbán, a key ally of Donald Trump and JD Vance, was defeated despite backing from both the U.S. president and vice president."
~ Aaron Parnas
#Orbán #Hungary #Putin #Trump #JDVance
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BREAKING: Far-Right Loses in Hungary Despite Trump Endorsement, More Epstein Developments, Trump Announces Blockade of the Strait
Aaron Parnas (The Parnas Perspective)William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"Viktor Orbán concedes defeat in Hungarian election after 16 years in power. … In a brief speech, Orban says the election result is 'painful for us, but clear.'”
~ Jakub Krupa
#Orbán #Hungary #Putin #Trump #JDVance
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •I'm celebrating the news from Hungary with some soul-stirring Woody Guthrie: "All You Fascists Bound to Lose."
#Orbán #Hungary #Putin #Trump #JDVance
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