According to Orbán, the court’s decision to issue an arrest warrant against Netanyahu over alleged war crimes in Gaza is a “complete defamation” of international law and even adds fuel to the fire of the Middle East conflict.
Although the warrant would mean that Netanyahu and Gallant could be arrested if they travel to any of the 120 countries that are parties to the ICC, U.S. President Joe Biden called the issuance of the warrants “outrageous.”
Now, Orbán becomes the first leader of an ICC signatory country to say that the Hague-based court’s ruling will have no effect in his country. Earlier, Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala denounced the ICC decision, and Austria’s Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg also called it “incomprehensible,” but both stopped short of publicly calling it invalid.
Britain swings to the center-left in historic U.K. election landslide
But while fascism usually is rooted in populism, starting with populism doesn’t inevitably mean you’ll wind up with fascism.Here’s what makes a figure like 'Old Donald' a text-book populist:
“For the first time since the pro-Nazi Vichy regime, the extreme right could prevail again in France,” Olivier Faure, the leader of the Socialist Party, said while addressing the crowd in Paris.
That prospect brought out of retirement former President François Hollande, who announced on Saturday that he would run for legislative elections to help ensure that the far right would not take power.
PARIS (Reuters) -Marine Le Pen's National Rally (RN) will not win a majority of seats in next Sunday's parliamentary run-off election, according to a poll on Wednesday, suggesting efforts by French mainstream parties to block the far right might work.
Far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen kept close ties with the Russian regime for many years. She has tried to brush aside her past statements on the country and its leader since the invasion of Ukraine.
'What about 'Old Donald' calling our country a fascist state,' Blitzer asked again, to which Vance responded that New York was trying to throw 'Old Donald' in prison for a 'paperwork violation.
The Fascist State is "Librating the people of Ukraines"
Harvest of War: The war in Ukraine's effect on the world’s food supply
"Taking the food from the hungray kids and giving it to the starving kids."
United Nations officials have been "blocked" from accessing "besieged cities like Mariupol, Mykolaiv, and Kherson" — raising concerns of mass starvation in the Ukrainian cities that have been devastated by Russia's military invasion.
Putin’s Russia is basically built on oil, lies and corruption, and that is not a resilient system.China is a much more serious country than Russia: It is not built on oil, lies and corruption (though it has plenty of the latter), but on the hard work and manufacturing talents of its people, directed by a top-down, iron-fisted but eager-to-learn-from-abroad Chinese Communist Party. At least, eager in the past to learn, but less so lately.
High-coercion authoritarian systems are low-information systems — so they often drive blind more than they realize. And even when the truth filters up, or reality in the form of a more powerful foe or Mother Nature slams them in the face so hard it can’t be ignored, their leaders find it hard to change course because their claims to the right to be presidents-for-life rest on their claims to infallibility. And that is why Russia and China are both now struggling.
I am worried sick about our own democratic system. But as long as we can still vote out incompetent leaders and maintain information ecosystems that will expose systemic lying and defy censorship, we can adapt in an age of rapid change — and that is the single most important competitive advantage a country can have today.
