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This story has legs.
(gift) nytimes.com/2026/03/20/us/…
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Hungary has been a “laboratory” for illiberal nationalism under Viktor Orbán, Cato’s @johanknorberg explains. After 16 years: weaker checks and balances, a steep press-freedom slide, and a poorer, less free country—hardly the promised model.
Learn more:
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In just 61 minutes, Trump managed to contradict his own 'victory' declaration. This pattern exposes him not as a masterful strongman but as a failed authoritarian unable to maintain even the basic coherence required for effective autocratic control.
At 4:28 pm, he said the WSJ would “live to eat their words” for reporting that he had “declared premature victory in Iran,” adding that because of him, “very quickly, you’ll see oil start flowing.” Just 61 min later, at 5:29 pm, he claimed Iran was doing a poor job of allowing oil to pass through the Strait of Hormuz, directly contradicting his earlier assertion.
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Agree. Why did Trump threaten Denmark and Canada?
Republicans against Trump@RpsAgainstTrump
Vance: “You should never have a foreign head of state threatening the head of government of an allied nation. It's preposterous, it's unacceptable.”
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Good idea for our changing times
Igor Sushko@igorsushko
🚨 BREAKING: Zelensky proposes a defensive military alliance that includes the EU + Ukraine, Turkey, Norway, and the UK. This will enable control of the seas, skies, and land of all Europe as the United States withdraws from NATO. The alliance will be stronger than Russia.
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Hodges: This now has the potential to be a massive strategic defeat for the US no matter what our armed forces accomplish on the ground.
After enormous cost, wrecked relationships with NATO allies, and unresolved objectives, the question will be simple: what did we achieve?
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Russia reportedly under massive attack.
Putin’s “special military operation” has come full circle, as missile alerts have been declared in Kazan, Vladimir, Yaroslavl and Kostroma regions for the first time since Russia launched its full-scale war against Ukraine.
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Hegseth has completely destroyed the DOD’s credibility.
Anna Kramer@anna_c_kramer
SCOOP: The Pentagon failed to warn ships carrying supplies for the US military before starting the war in Iran. The ships got stuck in the Persian Gulf. And for a month, they were stuck w/ a group of college students — merchant marine cadets. notus.org/defense/us-cad…
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Kyiv is listening. That’s why nobody in Kyiv or anywhere else in Ukraine believes that
ian bremmer@ianbremmer
if kyiv believes it has a meaningful security guarantee from the united states at the moment it’s not listening carefully enough…
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“There are a lot of voices within Iran today, particularly in the security services, that are talking about returning to the original principles of the revolution, self-reliance and self-dependence, and that leads only to one direction: an autonomous nuclear capability,” warns Ray Takeyh.
“One thing that the Iranian regime recognizes coming out of this war and the last one: if they had the bomb, they wouldn't keep getting bombed.”
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Barbara McQuade: It does seem like a very aggressive move by Melania Trump, to be out denying what's a single email today, and also including in her denial that there's any relationship... There's a lot of detail to suggest a prior relationship and a future relationship.
She doth protest too much.
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@BlueGeorgia yes
Marco Foster@MarcoFoster_
Michael Wolff (August, 2025): “A new book was published yesterday called ‘Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York.’ It contains a passage in which Epstein is quoted where he says he had sex with Melania a full year before Donald Trump commenced his relationship with Melania”
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It’s all performative. Hungary has not been supportive or helpful to the US in the Iran war but Vance has spent the last couple of days in Budapest helping Orban get reelected.
Dave Brown@dave_brown24
SCOOP: The Trump administration is considering a plan to punish some members of the NATO alliance that it believes were unhelpful to the U.S. and Israel during the Iran war, according to administration officials. The proposal would involve moving U.S. troops out of NATO countries deemed unhelpful to the Iran war effort and station them in countries that were more supportive of the U.S. military campaign wsj.com/world/europe/t… @AnnieLinskey @RobbieGramer
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I bet I can think of one exclusion or exemption...
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I have just spoken with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun and Prime Minister Nawaf Salam.
I expressed France’s full solidarity in the face of the indiscriminate strikes carried out by Israel in Lebanon today, which resulted in a very high number of civilian casualties. We condemn these strikes in the strongest possible terms.
They pose a direct threat to the sustainability of the ceasefire that has just been reached. Lebanon must be fully covered by it.
I reiterated the need to preserve Lebanon’s territorial integrity and France’s determination to support the efforts of the Lebanese authorities to uphold the country’s sovereignty and implement the Hezbollah disarmament plan.
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Greenland 🇬🇱 is not “a poorly run piece of ice.”
Greenland 🇬🇱 is far more than ice — it is a democratic society with free elections, rule of law, and a people who determine their own future.
We are not a talking point in someone else’s rhetoric — we are a people with dignity, history, and self-government under the Kingdom of Denmark.
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