Orban functioned as a conduit for Putin's foreign threat funding for years.

Petrostate despots and oil oligarchs fund a lot of fascism globally.

nytimes.com/2022/09/13/us/poli…

nytimes.com/2025/12/20/us/poli…

Republicans & the Epstein Class cannot resist fossil fuel public corruption.

newsweek.com/who-konstantin-ni…

vanityfair.com/news/2018/06/th…

Who Is Konstantin Nikolaev? Putin Ally Behind Mike Johnson Campaign Donation

The Russian oligarch gave money to the Republican's 2018 congressional campaign via a U.S-based company in which he owned a majority.

^{Ewan Palmer (Newsweek)}

@Npars01
Buy a tank for 5 million $
or
buy a politician for 50.000 $

Eventually you get lucky and you get a country with tanks & planes & warships working for you in return for your cash...

@Breturn
Alternatively, you get a nation where public corruption is so extreme that the budget for tires ended up in an oligarch's Swiss bank account or laundered via a Trump golf course.

Then your "3 day invasion" turns into a 10 year boondoggle.

bbc.com/news/world-europe-6466…

theweek.com/russo-ukrainian-wa…

Trump's billionaires are war profiteering at a scale that even Putin's oligarchs are astonished.
themoscowtimes.com/2025/05/19/…

themoscowtimes.com/2023/05/26/…

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Poland Seizes Boeing Aircraft Parts Headed for Russia

Polish customs officials seized five metric tons of tires for civilian Boeing aircraft en route to Russia via Belarus, the country's National Revenue Administration (NRA) said Monday.

^{The Moscow Times}