"Orbán’s removal would send a timely signal to the rest of the world about to deal with the monsters, large and small, who are now threatening global peace, prosperity, and stability while also destroying whatever moral authority the West still possesses."

#Trump #Netanyahu #Orbán #chaos #authoritarianism #strongmen
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"Both have held their offices by clinging to bigoted, authoritarian, homophobic, anti-Muslim views and actions that are poisoning much of the Middle East and Europe. …

Both Netanyahu and Orbán also have the support of the Trump regime and its white, Christian, nationalist cultural warriors."

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"The biggest authoritarian monsters of our time — Trump, Putin, and Xi Jinping — have bred smaller monsters who seem less dangerous than the big ones but are causing almost as much chaos and cruelty.

I’m talking especially about Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu and Hungary’s Victor Orbán."

~ Robert Reich

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https://robertreich.substack.com/p/tomorrows-election-that-merits-your

"Basically, he is making the sleazy argument that as a lapdog opportunistic ally of the United States, Russian and Iran he is uniquely qualified to keep his country out of the war so Hungarians won’t die."

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"Benjamin Netanyahu talked Trump into it because he is facing an immediate corruption trial at home, and this has provided both a distraction, and a postponement, and, conceivably, exoneration should he be perceived as a national hero.

Viktor Orban, Hungarian despot, faces an election tomorrow. Polls have shown that he is losing big. The war he has helped create has provided him with a last-minute campaign weapon he is using:"

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"The current global crisis created by Donald Trump encompasses three simultaneous, intertwining, wag-the-dog phenomena involving three different people. Has this ever happened before?

Donald Trump seems to have started the war primarily to distract attention from his patent complicity in the Epstein abattoir."

~ Gene Weingarten

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https://geneweingarten.substack.com/p/three-asses-wagging

"Meaning the ballroom is a very expensive front for an exit strategy: a place to hide when the disasters he is provoking every day come to pass.

Every dictator broods about such scenarios."

#Trump #Hegseth #PamBondi #strongmen #Iran #Epstein #ballroom #bunker
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"It’s then that they start firing their officials, blaming them for their failures. It is then, too, that such a leader might just feel the compulstion to announce in public that his beloved ballroom —which is an extension of his ego, his need to recreate the world in his own image— will have a 'massive' military complex underneath it."

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