Let’s not undersell this: Viktor Orbán losing an election to Péter Magyar is the kind of event that makes political analysts do a double take and then check the results again just to be sure. For over a decade, Orbán didn’t just win elections; he dominated them. He built a political brand around inevitability. The…
The Risks and Rewards of a Trump–Putin Summit in Budapest
As we all remember, President Trump and Vladimir Putin already met once this year: the much-ballyhooed Alaska Summit in August 2025. It was chilly in more ways than one. The meeting produced no binding agreement, no grand peace plan, and no Nobel-worthy handshake moment. But what it did produce was symbolism, lots of it. It…
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