Let's call the ballroom the 'pigsty' from now on.

Is it a coincidence that this corruption scandal appears at the same time as US / Wittkopf + Dimitriev / Russia try to impose a surrender, ah, I mean, 'peace', deal onto Ukraine?

The appropriate place to sign such a 'peace' deal is Munich.

ISIS is coming to town...

Hitler did it, Putin did it, Orban did it, Erdogan did it, many more did it. What examples are there where authoritarians are stopped while in the ascendancy in a democracy? What we see is that Americans are the same as the rest of us. The idea that Americans are innately democratic is refuted.

RFF8445 suddenly jumped to being above Turkey

Looks like ISIS

Let's send Hungary's and Slovakia's EU grants and subsidies to Ukraine instead.

Those assurances were empty, as Hitler’s forces seized all of Czechoslovakia on March 15, 1939. Then on September 1, less than a year after Chamberlain’s triumphant return from Munich, German troops invaded Poland and started World War II.

Appeasement and ‘Peace for Our Time’. In September 1938 Chamberlain and Daladier agreed to Hitler’s demands for Czechoslovakia to cede a portion of its territory known as the Sudetenland to Germany; in return, Hitler assured the Western Allies that he had no further territorial ambitions.

COP30 in Brazil? How do the attendees get there? By sailing boat? Or is there a worldwide Zoom meeting?

Sounds like projection, again.

Even The Spectator seems to agree:

www.spectator.co.uk/article/is-f...

Ukrainian Review may have a slightly overoptimistic view. Adding the seats for 3 far-right parties, the trend is upwards (more far right). The left wing continues to shrivel. The centre moves ever further right, and democracy continues to be under attack.

www.volkskrant.nl/politiek/ond...