Michael Weiss

giving him briefs on the discussion about Ukraine and Moldova's accession talks with respect to the European Union, asking his Russian counterpart, give me talking points I can use in Brussels to dress up a pro-Russian initiative as serving the Hungarian national interests.

We showed the transcripts of these calls to Western intelligence and counterintelligence officials, and they said it read like a case officer, Lavrov, handling an agent, Siarto.

And you had chants in Hungary of, you know, Russians go home, Russians fuck off, Siarto is a spy.

Yesterday, the new prime minister designate said, we finally found Peter Siarto because he had disappeared after the election results came in for a day or more.

He's in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs shredding documents related to sanctions.

Wow.

So he's certainly behaving like a fifth columnist.

And, you know, this guy was just, I mean, he was a functionary.

He was an agent of...

Viktor Orban, who himself professed that I am but a mouse to Vladimir Putin's lion.

So the end of a Russian satrapy in Central Europe, the end of Russia's sort of backdoor entry into the European Union and NATO,

is nothing short of extraordinary.

And look, let's be clear, the new government, he's led by Peter Maillard.

This is not some ultra-left, Marxist, woke conspiracy.

This is a center-right guy who in many respects has a border security policy that's even more stringent than the outgoing Fidesz party.

I mean, Maillard was himself a loyalist to Orban who then defected from

his apparatus and wage this kind of dark horse campaign.

But that's a good thing because Hungarians went to the polls and voted overwhelmingly.

This is now a super majority.

So a lot can be undone that has been done in the last 16 years from packing the courts to giving media outlets to your preferred cronies and so on and so forth.