"Which is why all the Putin puppets who have benefitted from it, including what Magyar credibly calls a false flag attack designed to give Orbán cause to at least fearmonger if not threaten the election itself, have scrambled to preserve the project."

#Orbán #Hungary #Putin #Trump #JDVance #Russia #HeritageFoundation #oil
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"High-level Trump people are filtering through Hungary and campaigning for Viktor Orban. But the connection goes deeper. It turns out that a lot of the MAGA movement has gotten its steam and gotten its training, in fact, from going to Budapest and hanging out at this place called the Danube Institute."

~ Kim Lane Scheppele

#Orbán #Hungary #Putin #Trump #JDVance #Russia #HeritageFoundation #DanubeInstitute
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https://joycevance.substack.com/p/understanding-hungarys-upcoming-election

"The Danube Institute is run by a guy who used to be editor of the National Review, which used to be a kind of mainstream Republican organization. And I guess when it tried to stay there as Magda came online, he comes to Hungary. There's a bunch of Americans working in Orbán's system that have ties to the MAGA movement."

#Orbán #Hungary #Putin #Trump #JDVance #Russia #HeritageFoundation #DanubeInstitute
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"The Heritage Foundation for the last —I think it's four years now —has had an annual, quote, geopolitical summit, putting in scare quotes, in September, where they bring in all the Heritage Foundation people, lots of MAGA folks, to do a seminar, a two-day kind of conference on foreign policy issues with Orbán's people and the right wing of Europe."

#Orbán #Hungary #Putin #Trump #JDVance #Russia #HeritageFoundation #DanubeInstitute
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