Charlie Stross22h ago

Holy shit.

Hungary’s New Leader Reveals Viktor Orbán Was Paying CPAC

Magyar noted that his government will be investigating Orbán’s expenditures, and will no longer finance CPAC or other right-wing institutions abroad.

https://newrepublic.com/post/209035/hungary-prime-minister-victor-orban-paying-cpac

Hungary’s New Leader Reveals Viktor Orbán Was Paying CPAC

Péter Magyar called the payments a “crime” and said his government would stop the funds.

The New Republic
Show threadNicole Parsons

@cstross

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

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

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/13/us/politics/russia-election-interference.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/us/politics/koch-network-2024-election-trump.html

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

https://www.newsweek.com/who-konstantin-nikolaev-money-mike-johnson-1870600

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/06/the-nra-spent-dollar30-million-to-elect-trump-was-it-russian-money

Russia Secretly Gave $300 Million to Political Parties and Officials Worldwide, U.S. Says

A U.S. intelligence review found that Russian agencies and figures aimed to exert political influence abroad and sway elections on behalf of the Kremlin.

The New York Times
Apr 15 at 1:20amWeb
Show threadSir Jo3h ago

@Npars01 @cstross

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...