A Shamazel Abroad

“He heaped praise on Mr. Orban as a ‘statesman’ who is ‘wise and smart’ and abuse on European Union ‘bureaucrats’ who he said ‘tried to destroy the Hungarian economy’ to sway Sunday’s result ‘because they hate this guy.’ Mr. Orban’s leadership, he added, “can provide a model to the Continent.'” Vance Visits Hungary to Boost Orban Before Election. Meanwhile, Russia supplies Iran with cyber support, spy imagery to hone attacks.

+ “Mr. Vance is responding as he always has whenever ambition calls: He’s humiliating himself. The vice president is scheduled to go to Hungary on Tuesday to campaign for the country’s authoritarian leader, Viktor Orban, a Kremlin-allied white nationalist who proclaims that Europeans ‘do not want to become peoples of mixed race.'” Dana Milbank in the NYT (Gift Article): How Much Humiliation Can Vance Take? (How much can we take?)