Michael Weiss
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 2 Sep
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And yes, they're exhausted by having their country be the focal point of everything wrong in Europe.
There is no reason.
I mean, Hungary belongs to what's known as the Visegrad Four.
And of the Visegrad Four, I think it's the catastrophic failure of the lot, right?
It was, I think, second lowest wages in Europe, arguably one of the poorest countries, if not the poorest country in the European Union.
There is no reason Hungary could not be Poland.
Poland will overtake Japan.
in terms of GDP per capita, I think, next year.
Poland will spend 5% of its GDP on defense.
There's Daily Mail headlines about Poles who went to live and work in the UK pre-Brexit returning to Poland because the economy is better there than it is in Britain.
There's no reason Hungary can't have the same thing.
So I think for a lot of Hungarians, this is kind of like a Pepsi challenge.
Do we want to live in trashcanistan, as Stephen Kotkin once called the post-Soviet space?
Or do we want to live in what Rumsfeld, I think quite rightly, once called New Europe?
Because it is.
New Europe, the center of gravity has shifted eastward.
So it's center Europe and eastern Europe.
I mean, you look at the Baltic states, you look at Scandinavia, you look at Poland.
These are going to be the countries that will define security policy.
Going forward in the 21st century, because if Russia is allowed to get back up on its two feet, if it does, God forbid, win this war, I don't think it's going to win the war.
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