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  • Even (former) US allies can see where the tide is moving, and it’s clearly away from USA, and towards China.
    The Iran war already accelerated that process when USA attacked Iran for no reason, and it was accelerated even more within a few days when it became clear that USA was losing. Now it turns out that it only takes a week or two for USA to exhaust their arsenal of power, and the respect for the US military might is at an all time low.

    1. USA military might is no longer respected nearly as much as it used to.
    2. US political power is diminished by USA alienating allies and even threatening invasion of an allied country!
    3. US economic power is declining because of Trump policies.
    4. The war with Iran will probably bring an end to the petro dollar.
    5. The combination of declining economy and the end of the petro dollar will accelerate the decline of the USD as a global reserve currency. Which will lead to further decline in the US economy.
    6. The above points will all decrease the soft power USA has enjoyed, from a combination of military power, economy and allies.

    Hopefully the free world will gather around EU instead, and EU and China will work within international law, and establish relations that will create progress on both sides, while USA becomes a lot like what UK is today, after also being a global empire.




  • My guess is Orban was corrupt from the beginning, but he was hiding it, because that’s what you do.
    Of course Hungarians need to be vigilant and take note if Péter is just a repeat, but my guess is that he will quickly normalize relations with EU, and to do that he needs to reestablish democratic values.
    I guess we at least agree that Orban is bad both for Hungary and Europe, and hopefully Péter will be a lot better for Hungary first, and for that good relations with EU are important too.
    EU is all about mutual benefits, if Hungary think it’s better to stand with Russia,they are actually free to do that, but then they should not be member of EU.



  • if you know where does he come from.

    I know he comes from Orbans party, but I also know that Orban wasn’t thought to be corrupt in the beginning.
    So it seems to me to show character for Péter Magyar that he no longer could stand by Orbam destroying Hungary.
    Hungary must I assume have been pro EU to seek membership, and work for years to meet the requirements.
    So it seems to me it is Orban that changed, while Péter Magyar maintained his democratic anti corruption values.

    no, obviously I’m entirely unaware

    You hadn’t yet stated “here” is Hungary, so your sarcasm is misplaced.
    Your easy thought is very likely emphasized by propaganda, it’s a typical Putin strategy to make an election seem futile to the opposition. And this is right up that alley.
    If you had the thought yourself, you might not have noticed it as propaganda, because of confirmation bias.



  • This is the idiot who led a group of 30+ countries to put pressure on Iran

    Your link says nothing of the kind. But instead it says this:

    "We’ve been pulling ⁠together a coalition of countries … working on ​a political, diplomatic plan,

    So exactly as I commented, European countries are seeking a diplomatic solution, you grossly misrepresented what happened to a degree it was unrecognizable to the reality behind your claim.

    You can call it asinine if you want, but you just proved that I was 100% right. And you made a false claim.













  • Even in France there’s a huge difference between the extreme right there and in USA. Le Penn is of course a traitor that support Russia, but she is not for instance advocating against healthcare for all. She is also not trying to undermine ordinary workers. But she hates foreigners and think Russia should be allowed to take Ukraine. But she is also not a war monger like Trump, and as far as we know she is not a pedophile.

    Yes she is bad, and I have no idea why she is popular in France? But she is not nearly as dangerous to our democracy even just in France, as Trump is in USA. Also they do not have 40-50% support, she only got 23% of the vote, only because France has the stupid system that ends op pitting 2 candidates did she get 41% of the vote, when there was only one other candidate to compete against.

    So you are wildly exaggerating the popularity of the far right in France and in Europe. Only the undemocratic presidential system in France makes her and “Rassemblement National” a danger of getting actual power.