Populist, billionaire and self-proclaimed “Trumpist” Andrej Babis won the Czech parliamentary election Saturday in a political comeback that put the country on a course away from supporting Ukraine and toward Hungary and Slovakia, which have taken a pro-Russian path.

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    2 months ago

    It’s a shame that people who grew up with the peace provided by the eu are so easily persuaded to leave it behind

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    1 month ago

    Vlad Vexler has been talking for a while about how trumpism and putinism are not things that infect Europe but representations of a global phenomenon that had European roots as well. We need to stop seeing these are weird exceptions and start talking about this new wave of authoritarianism has a very high chance of being the European default in the 2030s.

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    1 month ago

    I swear whyyyy. We are finally getting our shit together in hungary and now slovakia, poland and czechia all have to fuck it over at the same time.