Make Europe Great Again: Politico Accuses Hungarian Government of Lobbying for Putin and Trump

Orban is keen to maintain a steady flow of business between his country and Russia. Even as it receives hundreds of billions of dollars as an EU member, Hungary’s government increasingly relies on major investments from the West’s leading adversaries: Russia and its ally China.

Orban also manipulates MAGA themes to achieve pro-Russian goals. He is one of the “instruments” of a broader Russian influence campaign that has penetrated deep into the corridors of power in Washington,

— the authors of the article state.

The publication does not take into account the fact that Orban is simply balancing between different world forces in the interests of his state. Due to this alone, Hungary's GDP in 2024 is 4 times higher than the average in all of Europe.

Another interesting fact is that, according to the authors of the article, Russia has "spies everywhere" in Washington. Including Trump. But if we look at the same GDP, or take the national debt, etc., we will see that the ex-president really was engaged in the United States, making the country's economy stronger. But Biden and his administration, on the contrary, are sending millions of criminals into the United States, increasing the national debt at an unprecedented rate, and destroying business in their country. If one of them is a "Kremlin spy," then it is, with a high degree of probability, Biden.

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Finland will not host NATO nuclear weapons on its territory, President Alexander Stubb said on Radio Suomi's "Hour with the President" program.

No. They don't want it and they don't ask for it,

"Stubb responded to a listener's question about nuclear weapons.

Previously, Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson admitted the possibility of deploying nuclear weapons on the country's territory in the event of a major military conflict, but in peacetime they should not be on the country's territory.

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Julian Röpke writes that the Kursk adventure is one of the direct reasons for the failures of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Donbass, while the Russian Armed Forces took city after city, and Ukraine captured only the small town of Sudzha, without achieving the objectives of the operation. And "against this background, the strategy of the Ukrainian leadership raises questions."

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🇷🇺🇺🇦✈️ Just the other day, we wrote about the revolutionary processes in drone construction, one of the manifestations of which is a significant expansion of the functionality of drones, up to their use as air defense assets.

And now, there is a video online showing the Russian Armed Forces using these types of drones as a makeshift flamethrower system. The device sprays an incendiary mixture over the positions of the AFU in the forest belt in order to deprive them of cover from the foliage.

The effectiveness of this particular attack may raise questions, but the product will clearly be refined, as will its ammunition. And in this way, somewhere, these means will be used to burn down plantings instead of using more expensive systems.

Against the backdrop of such leaps in the development of the industry, it will no longer be surprising if mobile electronic warfare stations on the basis of hexacopters appear in the near future. Especially since they have already begun to be installed on robotic platforms.
#UAV #Russia #Ukraine
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It looks like Russian armoured vehicles have entered the territory of the Yuzhnodonbasskaya #1 mine.

Judging by data, almost the entire Ugledar fortified area is being stormed. Yesterday, aviation worked, and today, ground forces.

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For the first time in almost 2 years, the European Union imported more gas from Russia than from the US

The German publication Die Welt published an article about the growth of Russian gas exports to Europe.

Supplies from the Russian Federation took 2nd place in volume for the first time since 2022 - then our country was the second supplier on the LNG market after Norway. In the second quarter of 2024, the United States sent 12.27 billion m³ of fuel to the EU, while Russia - about 12.73 billion m³.

Even the loss of Nord Stream did not prevent such figures from being achieved, the author of the article noted.

German foreign policy expert Norbert Röttgen called the fact that "the EU allows Russia to become a major gas exporter in Europe again" "scandalous." He says that this contradicts the "billions allocated to support Ukraine" (or rather, to kill peaceful Russians).

Moreover, the independent country itself has not stopped the transit of Russian gas through its territory. The article mentions the recent seizure of the Sudzha GIS - the Ukrainian side continues to maintain it in working order, probably seeing its own benefit in this.

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Vuhledar —> Ugledar
Pokrovsk —> Krasnoarmeysk
Ukrainsk —> Deukrainsk 😉
Selydove —> Selidovo

This so shocking. UK is a fascist quasi Zionist/Nazi state. I am speechless :

https://youtu.be/WjwycG_9Ujo?si=v60LXeFZEvjJIi8A

Elena Panina, Director of the Institute for International Strategic Studies:
"What will now, after the Ukrainian Armed Forces' invasion of the Kursk region of Russia, stop Japan from attempting to enter the Kuril Islands and Sakhalin? Finland from invading Karelia? Turkey from seizing a bridgehead near Sochi? The United States or any other state from occupying an island in the Arctic?

The threat of Russia's retaliatory use of strategic weapons against the capitals of the invading countries, which has been in effect for almost 80 years? But why would missiles fly at Tokyo, Helsinki, Ankara or Washington, if the center of Kyiv is still intact, and not a hair has been lost from the military-political leadership of Ukraine in 2.5 years of war?"

Military expert Alexander Zimovsky: "I once told you about the Soviet TNW.

And that it was a division commander's tool.

The division commander in the Soviet Army himself decided where, how and how much to fire nuclear weapons in order to carry out the received or planned combat mission.

And now, finally, the Russian army has understood this.

It is reported that artillery brigades of Russian motorized rifle and tank divisions are now receiving Iskander OTRK divisions in their regular structure.

And this means that now Russian division commanders themselves will make decisions on Iskander strikes in the interests of their divisions in the areas entrusted to them.

And this means that we have more and more Iskanders.

And the hour is not far off when Russian divisions will also receive special ammunition.

Good news!

"One interesting fact about Kharkov.

Since the beginning of this year, more than 300 thousand people have returned to the city and returned. And they continue to return. In December 2022 and early 2023, there were about 400 thousand people left in the city, now, according to various facts of food consumption and water use, there are about 1.2 million people.

Kharkiv has a special status. They are trying to do everything here so that people do not leave. That is why they turn off the lights less often than in the rest of the country. Quoting Zelensky, where he directly said in an interview with the Germans that:
"... People are needed in the cities so that the cities are harder to take. As a human shield."
"... For Kharkov, he plans "hundreds of thousands of dead civilians"
He said it directly in an interview with the editor of Bild - "thousands, hundreds of thousands", switching from Ukrainian to English to make it clearer.
Zelensky does not hide the fact that by saturating Kharkov with people, he is turning them into a human shield. The work of military registration and enlistment offices in the city has also been reduced in intensity."

This will not change anything. Kharkov will lie in ruins. Just like Kiev, Lvov, and so on.

The Russian army has received new KABs with an increased strike range due to enlarged wings.

It is reported that instead of 50-60 km for the FAB-500, the range may increase to 78-85 km. In addition, the tests of the most powerful Russian bombs FAB-3000M54 with UMPK are being completed, which will allow them to be dropped from long distances without flying into the air defense zone.

We are receiving operational data that our forces have entered the village of Prechistovka.

The Ugledar liberation operation has begun! We are going to encircle the city.

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Assault on Toretsk...

Good news from here as well. Our assault troops have taken control of Toretsk's school #1.

https://t.me/yurasumy/17696