If everything goes right, by the end of 2026, Trump has lost America, Orbán has lost Hungary, and Putin has lost Ukraine.
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If everything goes right, by the end of 2026, Trump has lost America, Orbán has lost Hungary, and Putin has lost Ukraine.
Let's do this!
Eventually Putin will get a "fall from a window"
Putin would starve Russians before ending war, Browder says
The Kyiv Independent’s Martin Fornusek speaks with Bill Browder, investor and longtime sanctions advocate, about why Western sanctions have so far failed to change Russian President Vladimir Putin’s behavior.
The Kyiv Independent (kyivindependent.com)
Putin’s War Story—And The Price Of Believing Him
Russia is selling a story of inevitable victory and future profit. The facts tell a different story—of strain, attrition, and vulnerability.
Forbes (www.forbes.com)
Eventually Orban will lose office
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/16/business/hungary-russia-oil-orban-intl
Marco Rubio’s warm words to Viktor Orbán reinforce EU fears that US seeks disunity in Europe
Secretary of state spoke of ‘golden age’ of US-Hungary relations at time of tense transatlantic relations with traditional allies
the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
Rubio praises Orbán — and finds a new way to beclown himself in the process
After praising Viktor Orbán, Rachel Maddow says Marco Rubio added a new job to his Trump administration résumé: bootlicking dictators.
MS NOW (www.ms.now)
Trump is ‘deeply committed to your success’, Rubio tells Orbán during Hungary visit – as it happened
Rubio says relationship with Orbán is ‘vital for US national interests’ ahead of Hungarian elections in April
the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
EU Quizzes Ukraine On Timeline For Repair Of Druzhba Oil Pipeline
A European Commission spokeswoman on February 17 confirmed that Brussels was in touch with Ukraine regarding the Druzhba pipeline that has been damaged since late January, preventing Russian oil from flowing to Hungary and Slovakia.
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty (www.rferl.org)
Eventually Trump will lose the midterms & denazification can begin
Negotiating with Putin's Russia
The latest report in the Atlantic Council's Russia Tomorrow series examines how Russia’s strategic culture is reflected in negotiations.
Atlantic Council (www.atlanticcouncil.org)
Hungary, Slovakia stop Ukraine's diesel supply with immediate effect
Hungary and Slovakia said they have suspended diesel exports to Ukraine after Russian oil flows via the Druzhba pipeline were disrupted. Both governments accuse Kyiv of failing to restore the pipeline, but the European Commission said their energy security is not at risk.
euronews (www.euronews.com)
Ukraine peace talks little more than a mafia-style shakedown by the US and Russia
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has been powered by lies and backed up by the US. World affairs editor Sam Kiley meets some of Putin’s Russian-speaking victims in Pavlohrad, eastern Ukraine, as Volodymyr Zelensky calls out Trump’s ‘unfair’ treatment of his country
The Independent (www.independent.co.uk)
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If everything goes right, by the end of 2026, Trump has lost America, Orbán has lost Hungary, and Putin has lost Ukraine.
Let's do this!
@randahl "If everything goes right" - god no, we don't need anything to go further to the right, they're already far-right enough to my taste.
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If everything goes right, by the end of 2026, Trump has lost America, Orbán has lost Hungary, and Putin has lost Ukraine.
Let's do this!
@randahl The Chinese new year of the firehorse has just begun and Randahl is already in a very positive mood.
Crossing fingers.
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I did not write about Erdogan, because unfortunately Turkey will not have elections until 2028.
Are you seeing any other signs, Erdogan could lose Turkey this year?
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Bonus if Putin looses Russia too
@alienghic @randahl That's implied. Russia's economy will begin a rapid collapse come summer, and the Putler government will follow
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@randahl "If everything goes right" - god no, we don't need anything to go further to the right, they're already far-right enough to my taste.
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@alienghic @randahl That's implied. Russia's economy will begin a rapid collapse come summer, and the Putler government will follow
@alienghic @randahl putler has functionally lost his war of aggression now, any moves russia makes now are motivated by desperation.
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If everything goes right, by the end of 2026, Trump has lost America, Orbán has lost Hungary, and Putin has lost Ukraine.
Let's do this!
@randahl trump, putin, and orban never got the countries they usurped in the first place. All of them stole elections left and right.
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If everything goes right, by the end of 2026, Trump has lost America, Orbán has lost Hungary, and Putin has lost Ukraine.
Let's do this!
@randahl love your optimism.
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If everything goes right, by the end of 2026, Trump has lost America, Orbán has lost Hungary, and Putin has lost Ukraine.
Let's do this!
Speaking of the UFA and lost , the EU moves quietly ( without diarrhea post ) its pawns.
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The European Central Bank unveiled plans ….
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With investors reassessing the dollar's status due to the unpredictable nature of U.S. President … economic policy, Lagarde has argued this was the time for the Euro to gain market share, but this required a revamped financial and economic architecture.
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how did the world get so screwed?
it got this way partly from cynics like you
if the democrats take congress trump's agenda is frozen, and they can impeach him
yesterday Ukraine took back 200 square kilometers
Ukraine advance in Dnipropetrovsk region, war monitor reports
Ukrainian forces pushed Russian troops out of the villages of Vyshneve, Verbove, and Ternove in the Dnipropetrovsk region, a war-monitoring group said. 🔸 Read the article on Gwara Media.
Gwara Media (gwaramedia.com)
you can give up hope and wallow in despair
those of us who can think and act will do what you cannot. while you do nothing but complain
Did he really complain? I'd rather call it rational pessimism, which may not be worse than naive optimism.
"How the heck did the world get so screwed?"
We let power concentrate... again. We remained silent when we should have spoken out. We all shaped this world by our individual choices.
@randahl
The first and most important factor to civil disobedience are large numbers. Only if we are many, we will prevail.The faster we unite, the easier it will be.
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Did he really complain? I'd rather call it rational pessimism, which may not be worse than naive optimism.
"How the heck did the world get so screwed?"
We let power concentrate... again. We remained silent when we should have spoken out. We all shaped this world by our individual choices.
@randahl
The first and most important factor to civil disobedience are large numbers. Only if we are many, we will prevail.The faster we unite, the easier it will be.
I am not championing airhead optimism
But no, I disagree, I saw airhead pessimism
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If everything goes right, by the end of 2026, Trump has lost America, Orbán has lost Hungary, and Putin has lost Ukraine.
Let's do this!
@randahl halleluja brother!
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I am not championing airhead optimism
But no, I disagree, I saw airhead pessimism
@benroyce I saw both. I conceive both strategies as a conservation of individual sanity, which is a general human affliction. I prefer not to not judge over individual inner conflicts. Life is quite difficult to get a sense of. Was and is for me at least.
All I am interested in is a realistic strategy on how to shape the world so we all are able to live more and suffer less.
You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering. (Sophocles)
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@benroyce I saw both. I conceive both strategies as a conservation of individual sanity, which is a general human affliction. I prefer not to not judge over individual inner conflicts. Life is quite difficult to get a sense of. Was and is for me at least.
All I am interested in is a realistic strategy on how to shape the world so we all are able to live more and suffer less.
You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering. (Sophocles)
I will judge them
We're drowning in cowardly spineless cynicism
I fucking despise cynics
Useless fucking whiners
The realistic strategy you seek includes telling these pathetic assholes to shut the fuck up
They have some issues in their lives? Ok. Understandable. How does that give them the right to run their whiny fucking mouths on our serious world problems
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I will judge them
We're drowning in cowardly spineless cynicism
I fucking despise cynics
Useless fucking whiners
The realistic strategy you seek includes telling these pathetic assholes to shut the fuck up
They have some issues in their lives? Ok. Understandable. How does that give them the right to run their whiny fucking mouths on our serious world problems
@benroyce I deeply commiserate with your anger and the thrive that arises with it. As for many, your motivation is justified. Yet we need to join forces, not divide over inner conflicts.
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If everything goes right, by the end of 2026, Trump has lost America, Orbán has lost Hungary, and Putin has lost Ukraine.
Let's do this!
@randahl I am hoping that the Hungarians will vote him out, I have a memory of our (Luxembourgish) Premier, Juncker in the '90's on meeting him in Brussels, rubbing Orban's head and calling him "our wannabe dictator". As far as I can follow, Putin has lost, and it is beginning to crumble in Russia too, we can learn a lot from the Ukrainians. I have a deep respect for their will and learning power. Let us hope the US rights the situation with votes from more people (also keeping the ballots safe)
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@benroyce I deeply commiserate with your anger and the thrive that arises with it. As for many, your motivation is justified. Yet we need to join forces, not divide over inner conflicts.
@Amorpheus and likewise, that is a noble sentiment. except for the unfortunate detail that all cynics do is whine. there is no force to join because they don't represent a force. they need to be kicked in the ass to make them into a force
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If everything goes right, by the end of 2026, Trump has lost America, Orbán has lost Hungary, and Putin has lost Ukraine.
Let's do this!
@randahl Would be a nice change from the crap that's been going on for like a decade plus at this point.
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@randahl I am hoping that the Hungarians will vote him out, I have a memory of our (Luxembourgish) Premier, Juncker in the '90's on meeting him in Brussels, rubbing Orban's head and calling him "our wannabe dictator". As far as I can follow, Putin has lost, and it is beginning to crumble in Russia too, we can learn a lot from the Ukrainians. I have a deep respect for their will and learning power. Let us hope the US rights the situation with votes from more people (also keeping the ballots safe)
@connynasch @randahl The slap I know about was in 2015. We hadn't been members of the EU in the 90s and Orbán wasn't showing dictatorical tendencies until like the end of it. (and even then that's mostly "hindsight 20/20" stuff).
