Civic entrepreneur building broadsheet social media at kronkite.social. I also chair Unhack Democracy and write on foreign affairs, defence and democracy mainly at TVP World.
My substack: garvanwalshe.org
Garvan Walshe
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Orban regime now trying to prosecute a journalist for revealing stories that embarrass them.
Solidarity with @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social
From the libertarian CATO Institute: How Viktor Orban eroded free markets and the rule of law.
www.cato.org/policy-analy...
Qatar might want to reconsider its gift of a plane. Not such a good value bribe.
Garvan Walshe
Many on the right see Viktor Orbán’s Hungary as a model. In fact, it is a cautionary tale of unrestrained executive power and crony capitalism.
The 🇭🇺 government is upping the ante in the final stretch of the campaign. Allegations in the last few days:
▪️FM Szijjarto reporting directly to 🇷🇺 from EUCO
▪️pro-govt journalists taking instructions from 🇷🇺 embassy
▪️🇭🇺 govt accusing @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social of espionage
apnews.com/article/hung...
Hungary’s government is filing criminal charges against an investigative journalist, claiming he is spying for a foreign state.
This creates obligations for US commanders to refuse to carry out such orders.
Had T kept the threat implicit or secret they could have justified strikes by specific judgements of military necessity.
This makes that more difficult. To bear in mind when testifying before a Dem Congress next year.
Poland’s Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski has accused the country’s right-wing opposition leader of acting against national interest after he endorsed Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán ahead of a high-stakes parliamentary election.
Zselyke Csaky
Watch this documentary about how the Orban regime coerces people into voting for Fidesz
(English subtitled)
youtu.be/ZCwQR5HRWR8?...
Exactly right. Ukraine & Europe feel obliged to keep pretending the diplomatic games mean something, for fear that Trump will give Russia even more help than he is currently giving. But Putin's genocidal aims haven't changed, & must still be defeated. That means less talk & more action fm Europe.
The Israeli-US plan for a Kurdish uprising was called off by Trump after US sources leaked it to the press, Ankara hit the roof and the Kurds themselves demsnded guarantees US wouldn’t abandon them again.
www.timesofisrael.com/us-israeli-p...
Some argue that Hungary should simply leave the EU. Yet the treaties contain no mechanism to expel a member state. And even if it were possible, a forced “Huxit” would not weaken Viktor Orbán — it would weaken the Hungarian people, warns German Green MEP Daniel Freund.
