US President Donald Trump will return to the NATO table in just a few hours for the first time since 2019. The summit in The Hague is set to be far from routine for several reasons: member states are expected to approve a 5 per cent defence spending target by 2035. It will also mark the first summit since 2022 not centred on Ukraine, raising questions about Kyiv’s increasingly uncertain future.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has pledged to take decisive action to safeguard Hungary’s peace and security in response to the US airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, citing the growing terror threat, rising energy prices, and increasing migratory pressure facing Europe.
‘Hungary’s 25-year journey in NATO reflects a strategic synthesis of alliance loyalty and national sovereignty. Through the Zrínyi 2026 programme, Hungary has revitalized its defence industry, met NATO’s spending targets, and strengthened its role on the eastern flank.’
‘Operation Spiderweb has a more profound impact than simply enabling the Ukrainians to secure a decisive military victory over Russia; it sets a new precedent for warfare. Cheap $400 drones can be used to surgically strike enemy targets while either minimizing or preventing collateral damage. This leads to startling possibilities, both good and bad.’
Israel launched a sweeping preemptive airstrike on Iran early Friday, targeting nuclear and military sites, as tensions between the two nations reached a boiling point. Tehran has vowed a harsh response, while Israel braces for a potentially prolonged war.
Aaron Cox, a 24-year-old Sergeant in the 101st Airborne Division in the US Army from Texas, sadly passed away last week in a vehicle accident during a training exercise at Camp Croft, a NATO military base near Veszprém, Hungary.
Speaking at a Patriots for Europe event in France, Viktor Orbán called Hungary the EU’s ‘black sheep’ and ‘final Christian bastion’. He urged European conservatives to unite against Brussels, oppose war, and defend national sovereignty and identity.
After meeting in Fontainebleau, leaders of the Patriots for Europe alliance pledged to reshape the EU into a continent of peace, power, and sovereignty, rejecting centralization, open-border migration policies, and further escalation in Ukraine.
7 October 2023 will go down in Jewish history as the second Holocaust—or at least, this is how many Israelis feel. The day has irreversibly changed their lives, and Israeli society is gradually processing the catastrophe. Read our on-site report on the security situation in the Jewish state—and how it is perceived.
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