Peter Buda

You can't fool history.

David Lawrence, a prominent journalist during World War II, on how Nazi propagandists, including pro-Nazi Americans of the group called “America First Committee,” tried to keep the US from getting involved in the war. (In: Bradley W. Hart, Hitler's American Friends, 2018)

“Russia, Hungary can join efforts to protect their nationals in Ukraine,” Sergey Lavrov argued in the same Hungarian state media interview, where he made his case for Russia’s military aggression by claiming to protect Russian minorities. Just wondering what was the implication of this statement.

“The motive, often overlooked here, is that Russia believes it is in an existential, do-or-die confrontation with a far stronger West.”

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Orban's promised spring cleaning: New bill targets NGOs and the free press - InsightHungary In March, Orbán held a speech about a “shadow army” of critics supposedly funded by foreign powers, pledging to do a “spring cleaning” before the elections

Orban's new bill targets NGOs and the free press - and of course anyone whose opinion falls within the scope of this law. This includes foreign policy, war & peace, ideology & religion, matters of conscience.

insighthungary.444.hu/2025/05/14/o...

ДУГИН: Русија неће постићи договор са Западом док га не победи, ђаво не поштује никакве законе Филозоф је упозорио да је победа још далеко и да би било наивно очекивати било какво примирје или споразум у блиској будућности.

Dugin (main ideologist of Russian imperialism) on the West: “The devil does not respect any laws... We will never reach an agreement with anyone in the West until we win. We must understand that we still have a lot of land to liberate. This will take a long time.”

www.pravda.rs/lat/2025/5/5...

How pathetic to see these extreme right-wing politicians, whose entire political careers have been built on the rhetoric of fighting for “national sovereignty”, turn into peace doves when it comes to - Russia.

Have you said “sorry we lied/were utterly ignorant about this” once in this entire interview?

No need for long reports, the whole problem of climate change can be solved in, well, 24 hours. Just like the war in Ukraine.

No, in fact he was bragging about ending the war in 24 hours. It is now three months and counting. So either he lied or he is responsible for prolonging it. To say nothing of incompetence. Take your pick.

Europe massively affected by effects of climate change in 2024, study finds The year was the hottest ever recorded on the continent, with record temperatures in Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. Storms were violent and floods widespread, according to the Copernicus report.

Europe massively affected by effects of climate change in 2024, study finds

Climate, Risk, Insurance: The Future of Capitalism CO₂ emissions directly increase the amount of energy trapped in the Earth’s atmosphere. This is not a vague or future issue—it is physical reality.

Very important and tangible approach.
“There is also the false comfort of ‘adaptation,’ as many risks do not lend themselves to meaningful adaptation.”

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The only reason this guy stops at spreading flat-earth conspiracy theories is because he owns a satellite company.

“Democratic states have something in common with other democratic states and therefore do not fight each other. Canada does not need to ally with another power to deter an invasion by the United States.” (Huntington, Clash of Civilizations.,1996).
It reveals the turn the US is taking.

This level of confident ignorance is frightening.

A New Holy Alliance on the Horizon? "Defending Religion, Peace and Justice" by Suppressing Freedom of Expression

"In practice, the lofty principle of ‘defending religion, peace and justice’ has inevitably been accompanied by the suppression of freedom of speech and of the press."
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YouTube video by Friderikusz Podcast TRUMP NYOMÁN FELFORDULT A VILÁG - Buda Péter, nemzetbiztonsági szakértő /// Friderikusz Podcast 114.

“The kind of antagonism that separated the US from Russia has disappeared, not because Russia has aligned itself with Western values, but because the US has aligned itself with those of Russia.”
My latest interview on the Friderikusz Podcast:
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Says someone who has no background in diplomacy and geopolitics and even less experience with the Russians. There is no other profession where a complete novice can afford to pose as a sage.

On the "Christian Nationalist" World Order Change “The entire place was in shock.

“With the ‘Christian nationalist world order change,’ it is not the Russian model that is moving closer to the Western one, but the Western one to the Russian one.” My piece on the ideological dimension of the geopol rapprochement between the Trumpian US and Russia. open.substack.com/pub/peterbud...

Bravery, as common sense and basic morality suggest, means fighting the aggressor, not his victim.

History is watching.

US-Russian cooperation on the horizon? Forecast of today's announcement in November

US-Russian cooperation on the horizon? I predicted this turn - and its dangers - in US-Russian relations back in November.
See my latest on Substack (in English):
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“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

You - we - clearly are.

Shamefully palling around with Putin. You believe in the same common sense as a mass murderer. Wouldn't be too proud of that if I were you.

So it goes.

"I did the dumbest thing I've ever done. I have allied myself with the worst demagogue in history." (A.Hugenberg, chairman of the German National People's Party, a "media mogul" who played a major role in bringing Hitler to power.
In: S.Ginzenberg: Sindrome 1933.)

“The state of exception in which we live is not the exception but the rule.” (W. Benjamin, “Theses on the Philosophy of History.” 1940.)

History is our guide to what happens when politics is sacralised and religion is politicised.

Trump Blesses His Kind of Christians at Prayer Breakfast After squabbling with Catholics and liberal Protestants, Trump basked in the love of right-wing Evangelicals and boosted their causes.

Trump appoints his new attorney general, Pam Bondi, to lead a task force to "root out anti-Christian bias".

Well, let’s start with the government's effort to mix religion and politics, one of the most damaging, anti-Christian things ever.

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"In the zone of the ‘special military operation’ … our soldiers are ready to give their lives for values clearly trampled on by Satanists,” said Patriarch Kirill.
Seriously, what kind of deal can you make with someone who presents the war as a cosmological battle against the godless West?

They are literally bathing in the blood of tens of thousands of (Christian) people, and this barbaric monster pontificates about the paganism of the West. Sick bastards.

But he says Putin, who has been running a three-year military terror campaign against Ukraine, has been "unfairly demonised" by the West. No more questions. His own people seem to know exactly what this is all about.