The Tisza leader campaigned as ‘Orbán 2.0,’ but days into office, he launched a Tusk-style parliamentary coup, purging conservatives, shutting down state media, and surrendering to Brussels on migration and foreign policy.
Portugal has been denationalised, deconstructed as a national community, and converted into a confusing, shifting ethnic puzzle. This is no longer a recipe for disaster—it is an existing one.
The timing of the new recognitions suggests Leo is paying attention to what is happening in Spain—and signalling that neither the anti-Catholic abuses of the past nor those of the present will be ignored.
“António Salazar was distrustful of the terms ‘right’ and ‘left’ and took his stand around a position of steady but unspectacular nationalism.”
In the clash of wills between the White House and the Vatican, it is already clear that the vast majority of Catholics will rather side with their pope than with the president of the United States.
Perfectly legal acts of political opposition to the establishment can lead an individual to suffer real, painful measures of state coercion.
On April 12, Hungarians will be called to choose between adherence to the national interest in governance and the same sort of Brusselian occupation that has led so many other European nations to decay.
“The West cannot champion human rights while ignoring the slow destruction of one of the world’s oldest Christian communities, the Assyrians.”
There is something decidedly grim beneath the normalisation of the Damascus regime: a tacit acknowledgement that violence, waged successfully enough, will eventually translate into legitimacy.
A succession of inept Conservative and Labour governments have thoroughly demilitarised Britain.
Truth cannot survive in a system where its value is subordinated to political expediency.
Remove cash from the system, and every economic interaction becomes visible to some authority somewhere, whether in one’s own country or somewhere else.