All right, Alexander, let's talk about the state of the European Union following the Budapest

summit and the situation in Ukraine, which is top of the agenda for the EU, because the

European Union, they've bet it all on project Ukraine. They now have the election results in the United

States. It did not turn out the way they wanted, at least for most of them. For Aban, he's happy.

Hungary is happy. Fitsoslovakia is happy. The rest of the European Union, not so happy.

And then you have the deteriorating situation in Ukraine.

And so the EU is in a panic trying to figure out what to do.

While Orban has emerged as the, I would say the leader of the European Union, given his ability to be the only leader who can engage on the world stage without being left at.

I don't have another way to put it.

You know, he bet on all the right horses and he came out correct.

He came out ahead while the EU leaders, they've completely miscalculated and misjudged

everything over the past two, three years.

I completely agree.

The thing to say, first of all, is that it is impossible to overstate the sense of shock in Europe following the U.S. election results. The shock in London and the shock right across the, you know, the various capitals in Europe and in Brussels and all the rest. Now, they were

aware that there was a possibility that Donald Trump might win the election, though most of

them believed that it would be Kamala Harris. I know that sounds extraordinary to say, but they had

talked themselves into this belief. They'd assumed that all the things, all the right, you know,

buttons have been pressed and the wires had been called, and that after Kamala Harris emerged as

the candidate back in the time of the Democratic Party convention,

that somehow it all come together and she would win. And that, by the way, was the prevailing

view until literally the results started to trickle in. But even then, even those of them

who were a little bit more guarded and concerned

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