This effect is marginal, however, compared with decisions by major producers like Saudi Arabia or Russia itself.

To the extent that a more unified Western policy keeps Russian fossil-fuel exports under pressure and maintains European reliance on dollar-priced global markets (rather than bilateral, Russia-linked arrangements), it very slightly supports the existing dollar-centric energy order.

However, the incoming government has signaled a desire to diversify away from Russian oil and gas and treat dependence on Russian imports as a “systemic risk,” which aligns with broader EU and U.S. efforts to constrain Russian energy revenues.

As for petrodollar implications, Hungary is a relatively small economy; it is not a major oil exporter, OPEC member, or reserve-currency center, so its election outcome does not directly move the petrodollar system.

Orbán’s loss is also seen as a setback for the global illiberal/authoritarian-right network with which many MAGA-aligned actors in the U.S. identified, slightly weakening that ideological counterweight to traditional transatlantic institutions that (pre-Trump) U.S. helped build.

Analysts note that Hungary is now more likely to shift from “spoiler” to “potential partner” on Ukraine and broader EU policy, which reduces friction between the U.S. and Europe and indirectly boosts U.S. diplomatic leverage, especially once pro-Russia Trump is out of the picture.

Orbán’s defeat removes one of the EU’s most Russia-friendly leaders and a persistent spoiler on Ukraine aid and sanctions policy, which makes it easier for Washington to coordinate a common Western line on Russia.

A loss by Viktor Orbán modestly strengthens (post-Trump) U.S. geopolitical influence in Europe but has, at most, an indirect and very small strengthening effect on the petrodollar, mainly via tighter Western coordination on Russia and energy policy.

So, what you got?

Notice how it's "rigged" when people are actually able to vote and make their own choices?

#Trump #nuclearcodes

The Mirror can be safely ignored.

Came out of a Niger X account on Sunday.
www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Larry Johnson was repeating this crap one day afterward.
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If MAGA doesn't believe the debunking though, I'd be fine with that.

The Mirror can be safely ignored.

If MAGA doesn't believe the debunking though, I'd be fine with that.

Seems to have come out of Niger X account on Sunday.
www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Larry Johnson was spitting out this crap one day afterward.
podcasts.apple.com/tn/podcast/j...

Man behind Michelle Obama and John Kerry hoaxes at centre of GCHQ row Larry C Johnson emerges as key figure in spying allegation controversy

Multiple fact-check sites report no evidence for this claim other than allegations by ex-CIA analyst Larry Johnson.

Johnson previously claimed that the Obama administration asked UK's GCHQ to wiretap Trump; and that Michelle Obama had made racist speeches.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

It's bullshit.

Slate war correspondent Fred Kaplan points out that's not the chain of command.

The Mirror's source is a pro-Russian flake.

Entirely consistent with what a nutjob Trump is, though, so it's not surprising the lie traveled so fast.

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SCOTUS reversed Obama regulation cracking down on airborne mercury in shadow docket in 2016, NYT finds.
archive.is/lj2Jr
Such toxins have been linked to crime/serial killer rates. (See "Murderland".) So the EPA is fighting crime, and SCOTUS is preventing it.

Trump has definitely crossed over from attacking the regime that killed 30k in just a few days to attacking the very civilians the regime was attacking.
Has Trump insisted that political prisoners be freed? Is he refraining from targeting infrastructure? He's threatened to bomb Iran out of existence

...or Jared receives another $5B in deposits—whichever comes first.

Staunch Trump Supporters Are Now Asking if He’s the Antichrist The Iran war and a series of social media posts, including one depicting Trump as Jesus Christ, have some conservative commentators and fans suspecting the president may be the antichrist.

Staunch Trump supporters now questioning if Trump is the Antichrist
www.wired.com/story/staunc...

Nothing concerning about a red button being his soda delivery call bell, right?

'I know a lot about grass': Trump meanders off-topic in bizarre Kennedy Center remarks President Donald Trump wandered through a litany of grievances and a long list of concerns during his announcement of the Kennedy Center honorees at the iconic Washington, D.C., venue on Wednesday.Dur...

There's a connection here, but I'm not sure what it is.
www.alternet.org/trump-bizarr...

A nice Vatican you got here, Pontiff. Shame if something were to happen to it.

The reason Trump thinks Diet Coke is good for him: “it kills grass, it’s poured on grass, so therefore must kill cancer cells in the body.”
He has the understanding of an 8-year-old. This is who fooled MAGA.
okmagazine.com/p/donald-tru...

My favorite part of the Bible is when Jesus Christ defeats the Antichrist effortlessly at his Second Coming, specifically at the Battle of Armageddon. The victory occurs when Jesus destroys the "lawless one" and casts him into the lake of fire.

Courtesy of Spooky Force Gazette x.com/FrancisWegne...

As a philosopher, I’m convinced that Trump isn’t lying − he’s doing something worse Donald Trump’s false claims about the Iran War, Epstein files, tariffs and inflation have left some supporters who have traditionally believed all he says feeling duped and abandoned. Why now?

The shift among Trump's base is not due to their realization that Trump lies. It’s that he has betrayed them.
theconversation.com/as-a-philoso...

Fox, Dominion reach $787M settlement over election claims Fox and Dominion Voting Systems have reached a $787 million settlement in the voting machine company’s defamation lawsuit. The agreement averts a trial in a case that exposed how the top-rated network...

And of course Rupert Murdoch testified under oath that Fox knew all along they were pushing a lie—a lie that had many people so convinced that they risked being executed for treason to attempt a coup.
apnews.com/article/fox-...

merits, Trump’s side prevailed in only one, Pennsylvania, involving far too few votes to change the state’s result.

specialists). They examined all 187 counts in the 64 court challenges filed in multiple states by Trump and his supporters. Twenty cases were dismissed before hearings on their merits, 14 were voluntarily dismissed by Trump and his supporters before hearings. Of the 30 that reached hearings on the

Trump's claim about 2020 election have been decisively debunked by conservatives.
‘Lost, Not Stolen,’ a 2022 report by eight conservatives (two former Republican senators, three former federal appellate judges, a former Republican solicitor general, and two Republican election law

Conservative George Will on the report "Lost, Not Stolen," written by 8 conservatives, assessing Trump's claims of 2020 election fraud: Trump's batting average is 0.016.
archive.is/euUQQ lostnotstolen.org

Lemming Suicide Myth, Alaska Department of Fish and Game Alaska Wildlife News is an online magazine published by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game

Then I'll do it. Disney faked the lemmings movie.
www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?ad...