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S8 Ep746: Dismantling Authoritarian Information Warfare Networks Guest: Ivana Stradner Ivana Stradner emphasizes dismantling Viktor Orban’s state-controlled information networks following his defeat. She warns that Vladimir Putin continues to use psychological warf

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🗓️ 15 April 2026

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Dismantling Authoritarian Information Warfare Networks Guest: Ivana Stradner Ivana Stradner emphasizes dismantling Viktor Orban’s state-controlled information networks following his defeat. She warns that Vladimir Putin continues to use psychological warfare and influence operations to target other European states
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Today. I'm John Batchel.

0:47.0

I welcome my colleague of Anastradner of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies,

0:51.2

writing most recently in New York at the New York Post about the

0:55.2

results from Budapest, Hungary, a member of the EU, a member of NATO, and now falling afoul of the

1:03.4

Kremlin of Belgrade and other bad actors in Europe, the man named Orban has left the theater.

1:14.4

Instead, we have a man named Peter Magyar, who has a great task ahead of him

1:18.7

to dismantle an information warfare network that was dominating for at least 16 years,

1:25.9

especially these last months, so much so that when

1:29.1

Ivana and her colleague Admiral Mark Montgomery posted their column in the New York Post

1:35.3

before the election, they had to use the word if Hungary conducts a free and fair election.

1:41.4

It was not obvious. Nothing about that vote, which is overwhelmingly

1:46.5

in favor of Peter Magyar and the challenge to Orban's dictatorship. Nothing about that vote was

1:53.1

obvious the day before. Yes, the polls ran heavily against Orban, but elections fall into two

1:59.2

categories in states dominated by authoritarian.

2:03.2

There's crooked and there's crooked.

2:04.9

So there was lots of anxiety.

2:07.1

Ivana, congratulations.

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