Michael Weiss

And also, for the first time in, I think, over a year, maybe more, the Russians, their offensive has ground to a halt.

They have not taken any substantive terrain on the battlefield.

So Ukraine hasn't come out so badly in this war.

I'm not saying that's a reason to have done the war.

Sure, sure, sure.

Let's just have a little sense of perspective here.

And Zelensky has done what he needed to do as a statesman, which is cut bilateral deals with partners in the global south that had wanted absolutely nothing to do with Ukraine.

The one country that still won't do anything with him is Israel, because Bibi is terrified of Trump.

Yeah, I mean, it was nothing short of breathtaking.

You know, Orban has spent 16 years doing everything he can to foreclose on exactly this contingency, which is to say, gerrymandering up the wazoo.

I think today, what, two days after the election was the first

Interview that the new incoming prime minister, Peter Maillard, has done with a public broadcast in Hungary.

So state media had basically blacked out, had banned all opposition.

So this was a guy who just traveled the country.

Went to six, seven, eight different towns and villages in a day, shook hands with everybody, had to go door knocking to make his presence known and to make his policies understandable to Hungarian voters.

There were other controversies.

I'm very happy to say that I played a part in some of them, including intercepted phone calls between the Hungarian voters.

soon to be former foreign minister, Peter Siarto, and Sergei Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister.

These phone calls were what?

Siarto feeding Lavrov in real time sensitive information or intelligence about EU negotiations over sanctions packages to punish Russia for its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, feeding him documents,