The usual suspects say not so much of a fighting chance, but hope springs eternal, right? I mean, I can't see why USSR 2.0 would want to interfere in a former Warsaw Pact country, right?
https://freedomhouse.org/country/hungary/freedom-world/2025...
More on the (alleged?) chat, from both sides ....
https://www.thefp.com/p/why-the-vatican-and-the-white-house
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2026/04/09/pentagon-white-house-push-back-alleged-remarks-made-pope-vatican.html
More tea leaves to read linked to Orban & Co.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cyv16lq2rp1o
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/7/vance-heads-to-budapest-to-shore-up-orbans-support-before-sunday-vote
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-trump-vance-orban-hungary-election/
Short of hybrid, but still pokey-pokey by USSR 2.0 - and counter-pokey by the UK.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/apr/09/uk-navy-russian-submarines-undersea-cables-north-atlantic
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/defence-secretary-responds-russian-spy-112625395.html...
Well, at least it's still not being scattered from an old Folgers can ...
https://www.theroyalobserver.com/p/andrew-receives-the-ultimate-humiliation-in-new-burial-plans-alongside-a-forgotten-royal
Aaaaand, who "trains" the AI? ;)
Late edit with this: I asked AI for a "brief, non-partisan summary of this exchange from Oral Questions in Canada's House of Commons":
https://www.ourcommons.ca/documentviewer/en/45-1/house/sitting-100/hansard#Int-13425861
And here's what I got back - better...
Looks like bits of the GRU's breaking into not-up-to-date internet routers all over the place & changing the settings so the traffic goes through their systems. Nothing to see here, right?
https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/news/apt28-exploit-routers-to-enable-dns-hijacking-operations...
Bumped with the latest: court martial coming in June, after guilty pleas to some of the charged (aggravated assault and domestic violence).
https://apnews.com/article/army-base-shooting-fort-stewart-quornelius-radford-c8285854a0a0076e60414954e83fd470...
Interesting angle on the 51st state/annexation thing & how a chat between our King and POTUS47 might help ....
https://www.theroyalobserver.com/p/new-book-reveals-donald-trumps-surprising-question-about-king-charles-that-may-have-saved-canada...
He says, she says about some attempted gas line sabotage in Central Europe.
https://www.rferl.org/a/hungary-serbia-turkstream-gas-pipeline-ukraine-explosives/33725865.html
https://www.dw.com/en/serbia-russian-gas-pipeline-explosives-sabotage-hungary-orban/a-76674841...
This could just as easily gone here or here or here, but I just picked one thread and went with it.
Not just about exploiting youth, but a pretty detailed outline of steps & indicators of shaping/grooming vulnerable people into weapons...
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