‘Hungary, Europe!’ Spontaneous chant I just heard on streets of Budapest … Supermajority means Tisza really can dismantle the Orban system… and Orban has conceded… It will be a tough road ahead but truly hard to imagine a better result… I’ll be writing about it soon…

Hungary election live: Viktor Orbán concedes defeat in Hungarian election after 16 years in power Long-serving prime minister beaten by opposition after early results showed clear lead

Orban concedes defeat. The support of Trump, Vance, Putin, Lavrov, Weidel, Milei, Le Pen, Fico, Babis and many others could not overcome Hungarian anger at a stagnant, corrupt regime

www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Greenlandic Politician Shows Mirror To Trump Over Island Invasion Plan: 'He Doesn't Know About...' YouTube video by Hook Global

This response from a Greenlandic politician to Trump’s Greenland plans is outstanding youtu.be/DMPe_e-WRMk?...

Der Import eines 3€ Ersatzteils aus der Schweiz mit Luftfracht kostet seit Jahren deutlich über 100€, wobei allein das Zollhandling gut ein Drittel der Summe ausmacht.
Insoweit erscheinen 2€ geradezu eine Einladung für chinesische Versender, genau so weiterzumachen, wie bisher.

Brussels hold’em: European cards against Trumpian coercion Faced with an aggressive United States, Europe has more leverage than it realises. Across trade, technology, infrastructure, finance and people-to-people relations it has ways of retaliating…

A great piece by a fellow Europtimist @tobiasgehrke.bsky.social, recommending a new transatlantic deterrence model ”MAD: mutual asymmetric dependency” that gives Europe actually quite a lot of cards to play (in addition to all the eggs).

Europe might even trigger the ”bazooka”…

Ukraine and Russia’s Collapsing Home Front Western observers are neglecting important developments: Judging by what is being said on Russia’s home front, Putin has already lost the war and the only question is what face-saving measures can be ...

An article worth reading. S Frederick Starr was one of the few academics/analysts to understand that the USSR was collapsing. nationalinterest.org/feature/ukra...

Korrekt, Jested