Q & A: Fractured Iran or fractured Trump?
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🗓️ 26 April 2026
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Q & A: Fractured Iran or fractured Trump?
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| 0:00.0 | All right, Alexander, let's answer the questions from the live stream with Robert Barnes. |
| 0:05.4 | And let's start things off with Nikos, a four-part question. |
| 0:12.3 | For months, I've been saying that Orban will lose, and I've been called by you and others |
| 0:18.3 | a pessimist and an alarmist. No, actually, I'm a realist. I knew that we'd |
| 0:24.5 | stay inside for years during the start of COVID. I knew that Mitsodakis would be reelected |
| 0:29.8 | because I understand human behavior. In truth, people are lazy. They want to serve and |
| 0:36.4 | are willing to fight to fight Russia because they hate them. |
| 0:40.3 | Hungarians showed their true colors. |
| 0:42.3 | They chanted Russians, go home with pride as if Russia did anything to them. |
| 0:46.3 | So no, I don't have any sympathy for them. |
| 0:49.3 | They chose war over peace. |
| 0:51.3 | Well, I'm not sure that we ever were saying, you know, that Orban was certain to win. |
| 0:58.6 | I mean, obviously, it's been a changing situation, but I don't recall that we ever were as categorical |
| 1:06.7 | about Orban's prospects as that, not remotely, in fact. |
| 1:12.6 | In fact, we thought there was a chance that he would lose. |
| 1:15.2 | I don't think this election was about Russia, |
| 1:18.4 | and I don't think it was about his politics and his policies. |
| 1:24.3 | If you look at surveys within Hungary itself, in the case of Hungary, |
| 1:32.3 | Orban's policies are still popular. |
| 1:36.3 | Orban himself lost support for a number of reasons. |
| 1:42.3 | Firstly, the EU made absolutely certain that the Hungarian |
| 1:49.1 | economy would have various problems. So there's been periods of high inflation, there's been |
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