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We are not just carrying out strikes on Russia. We are responding. After the global energy crisis began, we received signals from some partners requesting that we reduce our responses targeting Russia’s oil and energy sector. I emphasize once again: if Russia is ready not to strike Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, we will not retaliate to theirs. We are open to discussing any type of ceasefire—a full ceasefire, an energy ceasefire, a food security ceasefire. We have already proposed all of this, and we are still open. If the Russians are ready, let them suggest any timeframe—we are ready to resolve this issue. From my conversation with journalists (3/3).

JD VANCE: With no disrespect to the cardinal, I don't know who Cardinal Christophe Pierre is REPORTER: He's the ambassador to the Holy Sea and US VANCE: Okay, I've met him before. Sorry. I just didn't remember the name. I've never seen this reporting. I'd like to talk to him.

Lavrov to Szijjarto: "[Following the information received about the Commission meeting] Sometimes a good willed blackmail is the best option." Szijjarto to Lavrov: "I am at your disposal." Lavrov to Szijjarto: "The Americans said that if they manage to sideline Ukraine, there are no limits [to U.S.-Russia economic cooperation]." Szijjarto to Lavrov: "Can Orban meet with Putin? Anywhere in Russia would be fine. You should know that the prime minister [Orban] is very flexible about the location." These are just a few exchanges from the latest revelation by the journalistic consortium investigating and publishing evidence that Hungary has violated European and likely national laws and betrayed Europe and Ukraine. Throughout Russia’s war against Ukraine, Szijjarto provided Russia with information, documents, and assistance that led to a slowing of European Union pressure or even its reduction. This gave Russia an advantage in the diplomatic, political, and economic fight with the European Union. The actions of Orbán, Szijjártó, and the Hungarian government (and the Slovak government under Fico) have aided Russia in its efforts to kill Ukrainians. This is what we must remember. The actions of Orbán’s Hungary have contributed to the killing of Ukrainians. The rape of Ukrainian children. The massacre of entire families. These are the results of the collaboration between Hungary (and Fico’s Slovakia) and Russia. The actions taken by Orban and Szijjarto, as proven by investigative journalists, have clear characteristics: they are deliberate, premeditated, and pursue clear objectives of supporting Russia against the humanitarian interests of Ukraine and the European Union. Hungary blackmailed the European Union to achieve Russia’s objectives! We learn from the new investigative episode that after Alaska, in Anchorage, Putin gave the meeting with Trump a perfect score and that America has an interest in setting aside the Ukrainian issue, and that then U.S.-Russia cooperation will be unlimited. We can speculate that this remark by Lavrov is Russian disinformation, but I can’t help but notice that Trump has become even more of Putin’s puppet after Alaska, and Zelenskyy was even more to blame for everything. By the way, Szijjarto is the one who shook hands yesterday with a guy who acts like a useful idiot for Russia: JD Vance. JD Vance, who came yesterday to support Orban in the election in four days. Who called Trump during the rally for Orban, and whom Trump once again backed. Trump and Vance are the ones who tried to humiliate Zelenskyy in the Oval Office, and they are also the ones threatening Europe, aiding extremists in Europe, playing into Russia’s hands, and pressuring Ukraine. Now that you’ve read this, don’t you understand Zelenskyy better when he lost his temper and said he’d hand Orban’s phone to the guys in the Ukrainian Armed Forces so they could call him?

What if America is already far richer than anyone in the swamp is allowed to admit? What if the real drag on the Republic isn’t taxes, isn’t debt, isn’t even the deficit, it’s Europe? What if NATO was never a mutual defense pact, but a 75-year subscription America forgot to cancel? What if “burden sharing” is the most expensive euphemism in the English language? What if the City of London cabal is draining our banks? What if the advice from globalists is terrible advice that’s costing us big? What if every European basing agreement, every forward-deployed brigade, every Ramstein runway, every Aviano hangar, every Souda Bay pier is a tax American workers pay so Berlin can run a welfare state and Paris can run a 35-hour week? What if foreign aid to Europe isn’t aid, it’s tribute, flowing the wrong way? What if transporting the vast majority of trade on European owned ships costs more than we realize? What if the NGO archipelago in Brussels, Geneva, and The Hague is just a money-laundering loop where US taxpayer dollars get rinsed through a “civil society” conference and returned as lectures about our democracy? What if the UN isn’t a parliament of man, it’s a Manhattan timeshare with diplomatic plates, an accounting black hole, and a Human Rights Council chaired by people who’d jail you for tweeting this? What if “the rules-based international order” was always code for: Americans build it, Americans pay for it, Americans bleed for it, and Europeans grade it? What if $36 trillion in debt looks a lot smaller the second you stop underwriting a continent that sneers at you in three languages? What if you zeroed out the Europe line, the NATO line, the UN line, the NGO line, and woke up tomorrow in a country with the fiscal headroom to rebuild every shipyard, every foundry, every rail line, and every Navy hull we’ve let rot since the Cold War ended? What if American tourists went to American cathedrals, American opera, American museums, American cities instead. I’m not saying I believe all of it. I’m saying maybe, just maybe, we could pay down all our debt and wouldn’t have to pay taxes at all if we cut Europe loose.

Trump: "NATO is a paper tiger. Putin is not afraid of NATO. Putin's afraid of us. Very afraid of us. And he's explained it to me a lot of times."