Viktor Orban, Trump's Buddy, Gets Crushed

He was Trump's and Putin's best buddy. The Russians poured a lot of money into the election.

And he got slaughtered.

Hungarian voters on Sunday ousted long-serving Prime Minister Viktor Orbán after 16 years in power, rejecting the authoritarian policies and global far-right movement that he embodied in favor of a pro-European challenger in a bombshell election result with global repercussions.

Election victor Péter Magyar, a former Orbán loyalist who campaigned against corruption and on everyday issues like health care and public transport, has pledged to rebuild Hungary’s relationships with the European Union and NATO — ties that frayed under Orbán. European leaders quickly congratulated Magyar.

Orban's fascist policies have turned Hungary into one of the poorest countries in Europe. His more and more slavish devotion to Russia likely didn't sit well in a country where the memories of Russian oppression and the crushing of the 1956 Revolution are still bright.

🇭🇺 "Russians, go home."

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— MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) April 12, 2026 at 5:49 PM

Orban did try to cast doubt about the legitimacy of the election, but the margin of victory was just too much for his lies.

The cleanup from sixteen years of Orban's rule should be interesting.

American Defense Stocks Might Not be a Gold-Plated Investment

Norway is buying a South Korean precision-strike missile system.

In past years, the Norwegians likely would have bought HIMARS systems, but the Europeans are looking to reduce their dependence on American military tech because they don't trust us anymore to be reliable suppliers. That's for reasons that anyone with an IQ above freezing doesn't need to have explained to them.

Operation Tripwire

Troops from several European countries continued to arrive in Greenland on Thursday in a show of support for Denmark as talks among representatives of Denmark, Greenland and the U.S. highlighted “fundamental disagreement” over the future of the Arctic island.
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The troop movements were intended to portray unity among Europeans and send a signal to President Donald Trump that an American takeover of Greenland is not necessary as NATO together can safeguard the security of the Arctic region amid rising Russian and Chinese interest..

They aren't there to safeguard Greenland from China and Russia. They are there to be a tripwire, to protect Greenland from the United States. They are there to make it clear that an attack on Greenland is an attack on Denmark and other NATO countries.

And it is exactly what Putin has been grooming Trump for and praying that he would do: Drive a spike into the heart of NATO and make it possible for him to take back the lands of the Soviet Union without running the risk of a nuclear war.

Meanwhile, there are private companies making hay from the ICEstapo. This is who some of them are.

Fucking Retaliate, Guys

In November, a train carrying almost 500 people came to a sudden halt in eastern Poland. A broken overhead line had smashed several windows, and the track ahead was damaged. Elsewhere on the line, explosives detonated under a passing freight train.

No one was hurt in either case and the damage was limited, but Poland, which blamed the attack on Russia’s intelligence services, responded forcefully: It deployed 10,000 troops to protect critical infrastructure.

The sabotage in Poland is one of 145 incidents in an Associated Press database that Western officials say are part of a campaign of disruption across Europe masterminded by Russia. Officials say the campaign — waged since President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 — aims to deprive Kyiv of support, create divisions among Europeans and identify the continent's security weak spots.

So far in this hybrid war, most known acts of sabotage have resulted in minimal damage — nothing compared to the tens of thousands of lives lost and cities decimated across Ukraine.

Hit them back. That's what one does with bullies: Hit them back. Russia is a big country with lots of ground to defend. Fuck with their shit from Kaliningrad to Vladivostok.

Play by Chicago Rules, for the Russians are.

Or give up and start teaching your populations basic Russian for when the Russian army shows up to murder and rape your women. For that is what they do.

There's an old saying that you can fight on your feet or die on your knees. With the Russians as opponents, that's your choice.

Putin Wants Ukraine to Surrender, Krasnov Agrees

His self-styled "peace plan" is a massive sellout that would have been worthy of Neville Chamberlain. It would require Ukraine to cede land to Putin that is not under Russian control, cut its military, give up weapons and, essentially, lay down and prepare to be fully occupied by the Russians.

The Rubiot said that "[A]chieving a durable peace will require both sides to agree to difficult but necessary concessions." As far as I can tell, the only concession required of the Russians is for them to stop killing people.

This so-called deal is nothing more than capitulation to Russian demands. It appears to have been written by the Russians and then given to that low-wattage tool, Steve Witkoff, who for unkown reasons, thought it was a great idea.

Trump, of course, has always been Putin's poodle. Oh, he may talk a good game of holding the Russians' feet to the fire, but when the hammer strikes the anvil, he's always in Putin's corner. Whether it's the amount of money the Russians have given him or some kompromat, Putin owns Trump, lock, stock and barrel.

Bottom line: Trump is a Russian-themed surrender monkey.

Also, when you get down to it, Trump is nothing more than a garden-variety bully. Oh, he's great at ordering strikes against unarmed boats a thousand miles away from America's shores, but when confronted with real strength (like in the Epstein files bill), he folds like an origami chicken.

If MAGA follows Trump on this, then they are the heirs of the German American Bund and the Christian Front, pro-Nazi groups of the 1930s.

Dumping American Software, Plus Putin's European Poodles

Hard on the heels of concerns about a killswitch in F-35s, Europeans are now worried about digital sovereignty.

Denmark's Minister of Digitalization, Caroline Stage, has announced that the Danish government will start moving away from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice. Why? It's not because open-source is better, although I would argue that it is, but because Denmark wants to claim "digital sovereignty." In the States, you probably haven't heard that phrase, but in the European Union, digital sovereignty is a big deal and getting bigger.

They didn't worry much about it before. But with Brain-Rotting Mangolini as our president, the U.S. has become an unreliable ally, if not an adversarial state, to European countries. It makes eminent sense for them to reduce reliance on American technological services. The article didn't mention Amazon's cloud service, but you can bet heavily that's also being eyed to be replaced.

Pissing off a bloc of about 350 million people in mostly-wealthy nations isn't smart business. But that's what this Administration, helmed by a dementia case with the impulse control of a toddler, is doing.

Also, some of Putin's useful idiots are squawking about being affected by the war:

Russian oil supplies to Hungary and Slovakia could be suspended for at least five days after a Ukrainian strike on a facility in Russia, Hungarian and Slovakian officials said on Aug 22, in a widening of the fallout of Russia’s war in Ukraine.
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EU members Slovakia and Hungary have maintained relations with Russian President Vladimir Putin and opposed sanctions against Russia that Ukraine says are vital to make Moscow drop unacceptable war demands. They also oppose the phase-out of Russian energy supplies via the Druzhba pipeline.

Awww, the Quisling Caucus in the EU isn't happy. Cue the violins.

"Vladimir, I Need Instructions!"

US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke after Trump paused his meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and other European leaders on Monday, a source familiar with the matter told CNN.

He must of had to check in with his boss.

Need further proof that Trump is a rapist? Rapists always blame their victims for being raped. Trump blames Ukraine for being invaded.

European Leaders to Meet With Russia’s Representative in Washington

European leaders including Britain’s Keir Starmer will join Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, at a White House meeting on Monday with Donald Trump, in a coordinated effort to push back on a US-endorsed “peace plan” that would allow Russia to take further Ukrainian territory.

The UK prime minister, the French president, Emmanuel Macron, Germany’s chancellor, Friedrich Merz, the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, the Finnish president, Alexander Stubb, and Italy’s prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, will all accompany Zelenskyy in the Oval Office.

The European leaders have better memories of what happens when you cede land to an aggressive dictator who is bent on territorial expansion. Trump's so-called plan is nothing more than a surrender plan. Because Trump, of course, being both an acolyte of Hitler and a lacky of Putin, is on the side of the aggressive dictator.

Also, very much this:

The Worst American Arms Salesman, Ever

The Portuguese Air Force is no longer expected to acquire the 5th generation F-35 fighter from Lockheed Martin, all due to the review of the US position towards NATO.

In an interview with Público, the Portuguese Defense Minister, Nuno Melo, ruled out an order for the aircraft, as did several other European nations, and blamed the Trump administration.
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The possible suspension of support also weighs against the US aircraft amid government threats to tax its Western allies.

Nobody wants to have to deal with a feckless president with the attention span of a goldfish and who is evidently suffering from Irish Alzheimers. So he is going to cost General Dynamics billions in sales, which will also drive up the per-airplane cost and end up costing American taxpayers even more.

Trump Tells the World: American Weapons are Not Reliable

All it takes is for one demented Russian agent or a ketamine-infused wealthy psychopath to have a snit and every American weapon with a computer system might be disabled. It's already happening in Ukraine.

I expect that other arms makers are going to tout the reliability of their weapons over the perceived political unreliability of American arms. Which won't do wonders for the sales and stock price of American defense companies.

ETA: And this:

So I guess the next brilliant Art of the Deal move from the guy who bankrupted casinos is to give Europe as many reasons as possible not to buy weapons systems from US companies right after the EU announced an intent to spent nearly a trillion more on defense.

Putin’s European Asset Reported In

Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban has met Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, in a visit that has been heavily criticised by EU leaders and Ukraine's government.

Friday's meeting was part of what Mr Orban called a "peace mission", coming three days after a visit to Kyiv where he met Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky.

The "peace" envisioned by Orban and Putin is the same deal offered to Czechoslovakia in 1938: "You guys surrender to aggression in the vain hope of avoiding a wider war." Putin's terms for suspending the war include the surrender of territory Russia doesn't control.

And it is a suspension, for as soon as Putin can rebuild his second-rate army, he'll finish the job. Maybe he's convinced Orban Russia will invade Hungary last.

The Hungarians haven't changed since they were allied with the Nazis. One might have thought that 1956 would have reminded them of what life was like under Russian rule, but I guess they've forgotten.

Putin's Poodle in Eastern Europe Visits Ukraine to Preach the Gospel of Surrender

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has made his first visit to Kyiv since Russia’s full-scale war began, and urged Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelensky to consider a “ceasefire” in order to “speed up peace talks” with Moscow.

Standing alongside Zelensky on Tuesday, Orban, who is close to Russian President Vladimir Putin and has criticized European support for Ukraine, said: “I asked the president to think about whether we could reverse the order, and speed up peace talks, with making a ceasefire first.”

Hungary was aligned with Nazi Germany and so it's no real surprise that they feel a tug to make common cause with Hitler's intellectual son in Budapest. Only being a NATO/EU member pulls Orban back a little. He's also trying to cut back on his ostracism in Europe because he has aligned himself with this century's fascist European aggressor.

Zelenskyy is being a gracious host, listening to Orban. But he'll probably tell him the diplomatic equivalent of "go shit in yer hat and wear it."

A Katsap Warship That Didn't Get Much of Chance to Rust

A special forces unit from Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) carried out a successful naval drone attack on the Sergey Kotov patrol ship from Russia’s Black Sea Fleet on Monday night, the GUR reported on Telegram.

Russian "Z-blogger" "Thirteenth" laments the loss of yet another Russian Black Sea Fleet ship:

"At night, the Ukrainians sank our Sergey Kotov patrol ship. An anmanned warship hit it.
I don't want to comment on it. Because if it goes on like this, the Black Sea Fleet will… https://t.co/3KPMpgxXD8 pic.twitter.com/YM5hua5dry

— Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) March 5, 2024

That ship was pretty new.

About the drones.

Updated and Even More Deadly

The S-200, a 55-year old mssile system, which Ukraine allegedly used to shoot down a second Russian A-50.

If you love fascism, if you want to see Russia reconquer most of Eastern Europe, then vote for Republicans. If you believe that the Russians have reverted to being the same evil empire that they were labelled in the early 1980s, then don't vote for Republicans.

It is that simple.

Yuri, You Lost Another AWACS?

Ukraine says it has downed a Russian A-50 military spy plane - the second such claim in just over a month.

The plane was hit between the Russian cities of Rostov-on-Don and Krasnodar, Ukrainian military sources said, over 200km (124 miles) from the front line.

Emergency services reportedly found plane fragments in Kanevskoy district and put out a raging fire.

The ISW reports that Russian military bloggers are claiming that the Russians accidentally shot it down, because it's somehow better for Russian morale if they say that the Russians are so incompetent as to repeatedly shoot down their most valuable and scarcest aviation assets.

Still, that serves as sort of left-handed confirmation that the Ukrainians did, in fact, blow another Russian A-50 out of the sky.

This Loss of a Ukrainian City Is Brought to You By Bible Mike and His Caucus of Appeasers

Ukraine says its troops have withdrawn from Avdiivka - a key eastern town besieged by Russian forces for months.

The decision was taken in order to save the soldiers' lives, said President Volodymyr Zelensky. Russia's defence ministry said on Saturday it had taken "full control" of the town, with President Vladimir Putin hailing it as an "important victory".

Its fall marks Russia's biggest win for months, and Mr Zelensky blamed faltering Western weapons supplies.

This is on the Party of Appeasement. They have done everything that they can do to choke off aid to Ukraine because they think that people who want to remain free should, instead, bend their necks to a murderous dictator. In that regard, they have not changed a bit from their stance 83 years ago.

One of Putin's Poodles is in Munich to argue that appeasement is the proper policy. I suppose he's blind to the outcome of the last time Western politicians went to Munch to argue that the aggressor should be given terrirtory to appease him.

Vance, Johnson and the rest of those useful idiots will be condemned by history for being the appeasement monkeys that they are.

Another Possible Loss for the Katsap Navy

A big Russian amphibious ship, the Caesar Kunikov, has sunk off the coast of Russian-occupied Crimea, according to Ukraine's armed forces.

Powerful explosions were heard early on Wednesday, according to local social media, which suggested the landing ship was hit south of the town of Yalta.

It eas the third ship of the Ropucha class LSTs to be destroyed by the Ukranians. The video in the news report doesn't seem to show any defensive fire from the ship.

It will be a sad day in the offices of the Putinite Caucus in Congress.

The Katsaps Lose Another Ship

Ukrainian sea drones have sunk a Russian warship in the Black Sea in the most successful attack of its kind to date.

Footage captured by the drones shows them navigating choppy waters as they home in on the Ivanovets, a Tarantul-class missile corvette while Russian sailors respond with a hail of bullets.

The sea drones struck the ship’s hull multiple times, causing heavy damage which Ukraine said eventually sank Ivanovets.

Meanwhile, the EU overcame their embedded Putinist Poodle to pass a large aid package for Ukraine. Our own Nazi Putinist Puppet continues to do what she can to ensure a Russian victory.

Germany is Speaking. Is Quisling Mike's Caucus Listening?

German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius warned that the war between Russia and Ukraine could expand beyond the neighbouring countries.

“We hear threats from the Kremlin almost every day – most recently again against our friends in the Baltic states,” Pistorius told the Tagesspiegel newspaper in an article published on Friday.
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With his call for the Bundeswehr to become “war-ready” he also wanted to “shake up our society,” he said.

The minister expects proposals for re-introducing a version of compulsory military service by April. Germany ended mandatory conscription in 2011.

The Germans are going to ramp up their spending and reinstitute the draft to get ready for an expanded war with Russia. And this is lrgely because Putin's Poodles in the GOP have been dragging their heels when it comes to supporting Ukraine.

When the history of this period is written, much of the blame for the course of the Russo-Ukraine War will be laid on Biden for his timidity in providing war materiel to Ukraine when it could have made a real difference in breaking Russia's military.

But, to be fair, American timidity in the face of a rising threat from Eurpoean dictators, as driven by the Right, is a recurring theme.

Crybaby Russians

The Russians pummelled Ukrainian cities with various missles. So the Ukrainians hit back on one Russian city; the Russians screamed like stuck pigs and whined to the UN Security Council.

I have nothing good to say about Russia whatsoever. So I'll leave it at that.