The Strange Death of Orbánism Franz Pokorny

Hungarian taxpayers paid American “post-liberal” Rod Dreher $105,000 last year to produce propaganda for Orban’s regime. www.jaccusepaper.co.uk/p/the-strang...

Trump Library Saga Takes Dark Turn: Where Did Millions in Funding Go? Four huge media conglomerates forked over $63 million in “settlements” earmarked for Trump’s presidential library. Democrats are trying to track that money—and the latest developments don’t inspire co...

SCOOP --> Paramount, Meta, and X are refusing to say what happened to their huge contributions to Trump's presidential library after Sen Elizabeth Warren raised questions about its fund getting dissolved. Ds say tens of millions remain unaccounted for.

Details here:
newrepublic.com/article/2092...

U.S. Installs a Trump Loyalist to Lead ‘Grand Conspiracy’ Case Into Trump Foes

Anyone who read AMERICAN KLEPTOCRACY knows that I specifically mentioned Joe DiGenova as an example of an American lawyer acting as willing cutout for post-Soviet, pro-Moscow oligarchs interfering in American politics.

And now here we are.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

What's old is new again!

Anyway, let this be one more thread in my lifelong argument that the West ignoring Moldova and Transnistria in the 1990s was perhaps the greatest original sin—and told us everything we needed to know about the direction Russia was already going in by 1992.

It's one thing to say, "Look, you've gotta give Russia a chance, you're rushing into NATO expansion for no reason!"

And it's another to say, "Wait, it's only a couple years after the Soviet collapse, and NATO's nowhere near expanding, and Russia's **already** occupying another country?"

This isn't a rhetorical question! You can't just hand-wave away years of Russian revanchism already evident in the early 1990s under Yeltsin.

I've never seen any of these incidents addressed by any of the NATO expansion critics.

bsky.app/profile/cjcm...

Do *any* of the NATO-expansion-was-a-mistake folks ever address the fact that Russia was already occupying a chunk of Moldova, already interfering in Georgia, and already doing everything it could to obliterate Chechnya years before NATO ever expanded in the 1990s?

The bizarre connection between Iran negotiations and Trump's crypto firm World Liberty Financial has developed close ties to the Pakistani government.

The Trump family has earned about $1 billion from their arrangement with World Liberty Financial.

The addition of millions of new users from Pakistan would provide World Liberty with more activity on the platform and more stability—and the Trumps with more cash flow as tokens are bought and sold.

“Pawn of the Saudi Monarchy”: House Judiciary Investigates Kushner House Committee Democrats are investigating Jared Kushner for his obvious corruption.

Jamie Raskin, the ranking member of the committee, sent a letter to Kushner, saying his job managing the private equity firm Affinity Partners and his diplomatic work for the president, have “been haunting American foreign policy since President Trump returned to Washington in 2025.” trib.al/CpTmbi2

Trump Admin Hands Mega-Deal to Company Backed by Jared Kushner’s War-Profiteer Brother Joshua Kushner looks set to cash in on Trump’s wars even as the president leans on Kushner’s brother, who’s married to Trump’s daughter, to help end them.

"The Trump administration just handed a huge deal to a defense firm backed by the brother of the president’s son-in-law."

www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...

Incredible how many people looked at that insane project and said "Yes, this is a visionary leader who we should definitely support!"

Amazing watching MBS's reputation transform from "stone-cold, steely-eyed killer" to "absolute tinpot idiot who has no idea how to manage a budget" in just a matter of days.

"The people who will get Taiwan right may not be China hands but people asking what happens to aging autocrats with long-standing grievances and pliant elites."

The Expert Trap and the Next War what forecasting failure tells us about the future

a deep dive into many bad predictions, and a few good ones, and what they mean for thinking about future conflict

Virginia Governor Ends Tax Breaks for Confederate Groups

Yessssss www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/u...

A New Battle in the Kremlin For the first time in years, Russia’s elite conflict is no longer hidden

"The real threat to Putin’s system does not come from liberals. It comes from the ultrapatriots—and they increasingly see Belousov as their champion."

zygaro.substack.com/p/a-new-batt...

How long until Hungary can send troops to Greenland?

If you squint, you can see the contours of a new burst of freedom and democracy on the horizon, at least in the West. Trump in a quagmire, Putin completely flailing, Orban done and dusted—and illiberals from Slovakia to Serbia suddenly wondering what this means for them.

And what a phenomenal day for Ukraine—and a terrible day for Putin.

Assad, Maduro, Orban—one by one, Putin's allies continue to topple and topple. And Putin is powerless to do anything to stop it.

(And this isn't even counting Ayatollah Khamenei's assassination!)

What an incredible day for Hungarian democracy.

What an inspiration to everyone, everywhere—especially in the U.S.

Trump administration is trying to reverse Kissinger, and even Kissinger is probably rolling in his grave For years, an idea has percolated among certain Western officials that the best way to break the burgeoning partnership between Russia and China is to appease Moscow, including to the point of choking...

"Instead of pushing a supposed 'reverse Kissinger,' officials across the West, including in the White House, would be far better served with something else: supporting Ukraine, however they can," writes Casey Michel in this op-ed.

The "Reverse Kissinger" is a move that completely misunderstands both history and the relationship between Russia and China—and yet it's an idea that will somehow never die.

My latest for the @kyivindependent.com on what a ruinous idea the "Reverse Kissinger" is: kyivindependent.com/trump-admini...

Is there a great conflict of interest in American diplomatic history than Kushner leading Iran negotiations after his firm received billions from Iran's adversaries—and while Kushner was simultaneously trying to raise more from them?

Trying to think of other examples, but nothing comes close.

Deeply ironic that it was Kissinger who reversed himself right before his death... by calling for Ukraine to join NATO!

Even he could see that these China-firsters dedicated to appeasing Moscow had no idea what successful strategy looked like.

Ukraine’s drones dent Russia’s war-fuelled oil windfall Moscow’s disrupted energy exports add pressure to markets already reeling from Iran conflict

"The recent waves of attacks show that Kyiv’s long-range drone industry is outstripping Moscow’s" www.ft.com/content/d49e...

Donald Trump Jr. stigao u Banski Dvor na panel diskusiju s privrednicima iz RS-a Donald Trump Jr. stigao je u Banski Dvor u Banjoj Luci gdje će prisustvovati panel diskusiji, a prethodno je oko tog objekta napravljen perimetar od 200 metara...

Trump Jr & Brad Pascale have arrived in Bosnia to meet w/ Milorad Dodik’s Russian-backed secessionist regime. Dodik, a long time Serb militant & Bosnian Genocide denier, secured US sanctions relief in Oct after hiring Blagojevich & Mike Flynn as lobbyists. www.klix.ba/vijesti/bih/...

The 1969 Sino-Soviet Border Conflicts As A Key Turning Point Of The Cold War In 1969, China and the Soviet Union, the two largest communist states, were engaged in a series of ferocious military conflicts that nearly brought them to a general and nuclear war.

There are 1,000 reasons Washington's efforts at a "reverse Kissinger" will not work, but this is absolutely one of them:

"In 1969, China and the USSR... were engaged in a series of ferocious military conflicts that nearly brought them to general and nuclear war."

www.hoover.org/research/196...

The Greenland Crisis isn't over—just like it wasn't over after it first flared up in early 2025.

Could Talarico be the next LBJ-style "Watchdog-in-Chief"? | Opinion Team Trump gets rich while Americans pay for war. So where’s the watchdog, asks Casey Michel.

Team Trump gets rich while Americans pay for war. Where’s the watchdog? | Opinion www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outl...