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🌊🇺🇸Jane Moore🇺🇸🌊
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Writer, walker, lover of life.🌳 Everything is Connected. Follow the money. #ETTD #MOFA
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@Daractenus @ChrisAlbertoLaw Make Orwell Fiction Again #MOFA
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@micyoung75 @RedBlueUnite Wake up America, or we are the next authoritarian nation.
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Timothy Snyder is a Yale historian who has spent his career studying authoritarianism in Eastern Europe. The framing he's amplifying from emptywheel is precise and documented: this is a transnational effort, funded by Russian oil, to replace Western liberalism with a pro-Russian ideology posing as restoration.
The money trail is specific. Hungary's Mathias Corvinus Collegium - Orbán's "pet university" - received a $1.7 billion endowment in 2020: 10 percent stakes in Hungary's largest energy company and largest pharmaceutical company, plus $462 million in cash. That endowment is funded in significant part by Russian oil revenues flowing through state energy contracts. MCC then funds a sprawling network of think tanks, fellowships, publications, and summits pushing the same ideological program across Europe and into the United States.
Heritage Foundation signed a "landmark cooperation agreement" with Orbán's Danube Institute. Heritage's president Kevin Roberts has praised Orbán's movement for fighting for "Truth, for tradition, for families." Gladden Pappin - Harvard-trained, Catholic, now running a Hungarian state foreign policy institute - sits in bilateral meetings on the Hungarian side when American officials visit. He was in Vance's study at the Naval Observatory for drinks with Orbán last fall.
If Magyar wins Sunday he has pledged to defund MCC, recover its state assets, and end the use of public money to build political networks. That is why Vance flew to Budapest. That is why Trump endorsed Orbán twice by video. That is why the pipeline near Serbia produced two backpacks of explosives a week before the vote. The Sunday election is not about Hungary. It is about whether the money laundering vehicle for this network survives.

Timothy Snyder@TimothyDSnyder
“This is a trans-national effort, funded by Russian oil, to replace Western liberalism with a pro-Russian ideology posing as restoration. Orbán is not just the puppet that gives this packaged ideology a European face, but he oversees the money laundering vehicles to fund the larger network.” emptywheel.net/2026/04/07/put…
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@joni_askola @Andrea_51544005 Like us, Hungary needs to
VOTE IN NUMBERS TOO MASSIVE TO MANIPULATE.
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