Earned Entitlements And Mass Immigration

American  Thinker 

In the shadow of well-meaning slogans and impassioned rallies, a quiet crisis is brewing—one that threatens the very systems built by generations of American workers. Social Security and Medicaid, two pillars of our social contract, are facing demographic and fiscal strain.

At the same time, a growing political movement seeks to legalize millions of illegal aliens, offering them a pathway to citizenship and, eventually, access to these entitlement programs—programs to which they haven’t, or have barely, contributed. The moral impulse behind this push is understandable. But the economic consequences, especially for older Americans and the rising generation, are rarely discussed with honesty.

We can explore the question of naturalizing those who entered the country illegally through the lens of simplicity and critical thought. I have witnessed rallies across the nation, crowds of retirees and working-class citizens standing shoulder to shoulder, passionately endorsing illegal immigration and denouncing ICE as if it were an occupying force.

Many of these same citizens, I suspect, have spent three, four, even five decades faithfully contributing to Social Security. Their payroll taxes were mandatory. Their sacrifices were tangible. Their commitment was unquestionable. Yet few seemed to recognize that the very system they labored to sustain now stands at risk of destabilization by the very policies they so fervently champion.

Let’s be clear: illegal aliens are not currently eligible for Social Security or Medicaid. But if legalized and eventually naturalized, they would become eligible, and that’s where the tension begins.

The Contribution Gap

It is undeniable that many individuals residing in the country illegally do, in fact, pay taxes. Some file returns using Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers (ITINs), while others are employed under borrowed or fraudulent Social Security numbers. According to estimates from the Social Security Administration, illegal alien workers contributed more than $26 billion to the trust fund in 2023 alone.

Yet this headline figure conceals a deeper reality. Millions of others remain outside the system entirely, working off the books, paid in cash, and contributing nothing to the tax base or social safety net. This shadow economy not only undermines fairness but also erodes the integrity of the system itself.

Moreover, every position filled by someone who is in the country unlawfully represents an opportunity denied to an American citizen. Jobs that could provide stability, dignity, and upward mobility for legal residents are instead diverted, creating a silent but significant displacement in the labor market.

Even among those who do pay, the duration and amount of their contributions often fall short of what’s required to sustain long-term benefits. Social Security is not a welfare program; it’s an earned benefit. The average American worker contributes for decades before drawing retirement income. Legalizing millions of illegal aliens who have only recently begun contributing, or who may never meet the full eligibility criteria, creates a fiscal imbalance. They will receive more than they paid in, and someone else will have to make up the difference.

That someone is the American citizen.

The Hidden Costs of Compassion

Supporters of mass legalization often argue that immigrants will bolster the workforce and stabilize entitlement programs. After all, most illegal aliens are of working age. But this argument ignores the wage suppression and job displacement that often accompany large-scale immigration.

Harvard economist George Borjas found that illegal immigration reduces wages for low-skilled native workers, particularly those without high school diplomas. In sectors like construction, agriculture, and hospitality, American citizens are increasingly displaced by cheaper, illegal labor. This not only erodes wages but also undermines the tax base needed to fund Social Security and Medicaid.

Moreover, the fiscal drain extends beyond payroll taxes. The Center for Immigration Studies estimates a lifetime net cost of $68,000 per illegal alien, largely due to low education levels and higher use of means-tested programs. Medicare, in particular, faces pressure from emergency care provisions and long-term eligibility expansions. Legalization would only accelerate this trend.

Intergenerational Consequences

The most troubling aspect of this debate is its impact on generational equity. Older Americans, many of whom support illegal migration policies out of compassion or nostalgia, may not realize that their benefits are at risk. Social Security is already projected to run short by 2033, triggering a 23% cut in benefits unless reforms are enacted. Adding millions of new claimants, many of whom contributed far less, will force painful choices:

• Raise the retirement age to 68 or beyond.
• Increase payroll taxes on younger workers.
• Reduce benefit formulas for future retirees.
• Means-test benefits, undermining the universality of the program.

These changes won’t affect the wealthy. They’ll hit the middle class, the very people who built the system and now rely on it. And they’ll hit the rising generation hardest, forcing them to pay more for benefits they may never receive.

Why the Silence?

Why don’t we talk about this? Why do older Americans, who have the most to lose, support policies that could erode their own retirement security?

Many see immigration through the lens of their own family histories—grandparents who came through Ellis Island, parents who worked hard to build a better life. They forget that those immigrants came legally, often with sponsors, and without access to entitlements. Today’s immigration landscape is fundamentally different.

Another reason is media and political messaging. The debate is framed as compassion versus cruelty, not sustainability versus collapse. Few politicians dare to speak the truth: that compassion without contribution is a recipe for fiscal ruin.

Finally, there’s a disconnect between policy and personal impact. Retirees may assume their benefits are locked in, unaware that future COLA adjustments, spousal benefits, and lifetime caps could be trimmed to accommodate new claimants. They may not connect their decades of contributions to the redistribution effects that legalization could trigger.

A Call for Critical Thinking

The older generation and the younger generation alike are, perhaps unknowingly, supporting their own financial demise at the expense of illegal aliens who should not be in the country to begin with. The question must be asked: why can’t they see beyond the talking points? Why do so many blindly support policies that will affect them deeply later—policies that will erode their retirement, suppress their wages, and burden their children?

America is a nation of immigrants, but also a nation of laws, systems, and promises. Social Security and Medicaid are not infinite wells. They are fragile compacts between generations. To preserve them, we must confront hard truths, not just comforting narratives.

Americans need to think with clear heads, not heated emotions. If millions of people who entered the country illegally are naturalized, workers nearing retirement will see their benefits erode, while younger workers will face higher taxes to sustain the system. The younger will pay, the older will sacrifice, and everyone in between will bear the burden—without having truly consented to these outcomes. What was once designed as a safeguard for those who worked and sacrificed may instead become a mechanism of redistribution, eroding the very promise of security it was meant to uphold.

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Terror As Politics

American  Thinker 

The Dems have always been adept at playing dirty. There is scarcely a single epoch of American politics since 1828 that doesn’t feature a titanically corrupt Democrat capable of vast crimes committed in order to remain in power and make a profit doing so. But old-time Dems knew there were limits. You didn’t try to steal a presidential election. You didn’t undermine the foundations of the system itself. You didn’t try to annihilate the opposition. You gave lip service to the verities and generally tried to project a front of high-minded virtue, giving lip service to established values even as you defied them.

In recent decades, though, Democrats have dumped all ethical pretenses in favor of utilizing any tactic, any strategy, to gain and maintain power, and to squeeze out every last dime and every last privilege, no matter what the cost to anybody else.

The entry of ideology into everyday politics has rotted everything it touched. A system infected by it is ruined and best destroyed in hopes of protecting everything else. It could be any ideology—right, left, center—the effect is the same. But America has suffered the grave misfortune of contracting possibly the worst form: leftism, that is, socialism based on the Marxist dialectic.

As is true of all previous cases—the USSR, Red China, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Cuba, Nicaragua—the key element is the control of everything, whether it’s political in the accepted sense or not (“the personal is the political” is one of the root concepts here). Everything outside of the ideological structure is a target, against which any tactic can be justified.

Richard Daley knew where to stop. Zohran Mamdani does not.

There’s no question that the Dems will eventually go over the edge. It’s going to happen. It’s baked into the very process of adapting leftism. The only questions are “when” and “what do we do about it?”

Those questions were lent particular urgency this past week by two breaking events: Mark Kelly, the Kosmik Kid, advising the rank-and-file military to consider mutiny, and Minnesota judge Sarah West throwing out a jury verdict in favor of allowing the criminals to walk, all because they were Somalis, and thus not subject to the white man’s laws.

Kelly’s action was a perfect example of an own goal. Astro Man was looking back at Mark Milley’s treachery while chairman of the Joint Chiefs, when, in the last days of Trump’s first term, he informed the Chinese that he personally would stand like Horatius to prevent Trump from attacking them. 

What Space Boy learned from Milley is that it’s all theater, and that you can say or do anything at all and then shrug and walk off afterward, just as Milley did. Kelly didn’t care about the position in which this put on-duty troops and America itself.

Troops are now trapped between suspicion from the civilian administration that they serve, and mistrust for their own commanders, who, like Milley and Kelly, could sell them out for cheap political purposes at the drop of a Ranger beret. In this world of confrontation and tension, our kids in uniform do not deserve this. But that’s one of the things that Kelly doesn’t care about. (This is not even to mention the glee that our adversaries must feel at seeing the morale of our troops gutted.)

As for Minnesota, what’s involved here is a legal case concerning Promise Health, a bogus health care outfit (there are apparently dozens of these in Minnesota) run by a Somali immigrant, Abdifatah Yusuf, and his wife. Promise had received $7.2 million in federal funding that was supposed to go to members of the Somali community, but which Yusuf and his wife blew on frivolities. (Which is relatively harmless. In some other cases, money went to Islamist terror groups.) The case was so open and shut that the Minnesota jury spent only four hours deliberating before finding Yusuf guilty.

Which is when Judge West stepped in to flip the verdict and cut Yusuf loose. No legal reasoning, no serious explanation. (She did admit that she was “troubled” by the theft, though.) It’s obvious that this is simply the latest example of a plethora of cases based on the proposition that illegals are not subject to American law and can do pretty much whatever they damn well please. 

You’ll recall the 2015 case of Kate Steinle, a young San Francisco woman shot to death before her father’s eyes by an out-of-control illegal. It, too, was an open-and-shut case — nobody denied that he fired the shots. But in 2017, the jury freed him anyway, in a verdict explicitly intended to send a message to Donald Trump. More recently, we have Judge Hannah Dugan, who aided an illegal to flee from ICE agents waiting to arrest him outside her courtroom.

There is a concept called “stochastic terrorism,” in which overheated, extreme rhetoric, or actions by establishment figures in politics, media, or the law, create a climate in which unbalanced members of the public — the mentally ill, the obsessive, the fanatical — are encouraged to carry out atrocious acts that might never have occurred otherwise. It’s a form of terrorism that seems to arise spontaneously and mysteriously out of nowhere, but in fact is the direct result of demagoguery by supposedly uninvolved public figures.

It’ll come as no surprise that most of the stochastic terrorists on record have emerged from the Left. James Hodgkinson, Stephen Paddock, Thomas Crook, Luigi Mangione, and Tyler Robinson can serve as examples. Note that many of these cases involve lots of head-scratching in the media — and even in law enforcement — as to the “motives” of the shooter. Note also that many of them are brushed off the headlines in short order, becoming back-page items, and sometimes not even that.

Both the Kelly and West cases represent stochastic terrorism. I contend that Kelly, West, Slotkin, Goodlander, and the rest are effectively acting as terrorists in their rhetoric and activities.  I contend that their total irresponsibility, recklessness, arrogance, and narcissism are endangering the country over the long term and threatening unsuspecting individuals with injury and death, all in the pursuit of goals utterly alien to the people they claim to serve.

Where will all this lead? Where can it lead? In the historical record, one can find several incidents known under the rubric of “great fear,” when universal social panic drove entire societies into actions they would later regret. One of these occurred in France in 1789, another in the American South in 1861. None has gotten the study that all unquestionably deserve, but there exists little doubt that the wild rhetoric of the revolutionaries in France and the slaveholding aristocracy in the South played serious roles in triggering these frenzies.

This is the worst-case scenario. More likely is a continuing state of rising tension, with growing animosity, more frequent violent outbreaks, and attempted or even successful assassinations. Consider the two National Guardsmen shot by a crazed Afghan this week, only days after Kelly’s statement. It could be a coincidence, but it could easily be an indirect product of Kelly’s reckless blather. We don’t know, and we can’t know. That’s one of the more ominous aspects of stochastic terror — it’s the butterfly effect of political violence, in which cause and effect are lost amid the chaos of real life.

It’s good to see Kelly being spanked in the public sphere and being investigated by the Pentagon. Judge Dugan was suspended and is currently facing trial. The same treatment should be given to Judge West. 

Pam Bondi and her team have been doing yeoman's work in dismantling the judge’s revolt against the administration, but she needs to shift from defensive to offensive to nip all this in the bud.  Pols and judges actively and blatantly breaking the law is not the kind of thing that can continue. By its very nature, it’s a problem that will eventually solve itself, but not in a way that will be pleasant to witness.

Democrat Leadership is Sinister, Not Misguided

Townhall 

Even the least informed among Republicans should have gained valuable insights from the Schumer Shutdown. Impeding so many functions of government for 40+ days served a purpose for Democrats. It didn't matter how many Americans were suffering or what kinds of delays and hardshipscitizens were encountering. That some people wouldn't be able to pay their bills or eat full meals was of little concern.

Holding Out on Cue

Those crafty Democrats, ever plotting and planning for ways to take political control and to wield absolute power, had sought all along to hold out until the November 4, 2025, elections.

With the rock-solid support of the fakestream propaganda machine, they knew they’d be able to usher in a distinct, if limited, number of new governors, attorneys general, mayors, and other elected officials across the country. Obviously, the few elections were small in number compared to the forthcoming midterms and to the 2028 national election.

It behooves everyone on the Right, nonetheless, to understand that Democrat leadership is not weak-willed or moronic. They are unrelenting in their fervor. In each and every instance where they can muster any leverage, no matter how many of their own constituents it hurts, they seek to take political power. They aim to dominate in election after election, and ultimately, to bring downthe country. Legions of them are a part of the movement.

Part of Plan

As we've witnessed, they grow more brazen with the passage of time. Their quest to destroy America was once a closely guarded secret. Now, the quiet part is often said out loud. Behaviors that seem shocking to the Right are merely aspects of the Left’s overall plan.

For too long, the Right has pretended or been fooled into thinking that the outliers among Democratic leaders did not represent the base. We believed that people who spoke and acted in a radical manner, which would have made Democrats of yesteryear shudder, were somehow anomalies. They are not.

When you hear AOC and her childish blather, Jasmine Crockett and her constant idiotic harangue, Hakeem Jeffries and his idle threats, and now Zohran Mamdani and Katie Wilson, it's vital to understand that these zealots are on a mission and will not be dissuaded from it.

That Was Then, This is Now

A few decades ago, one could argue that Republicans and Democrats had reasonably similar goals for the strength and vitality of our nation, but differed in approaches. Today, that is simply not the case. Many, if not most, on the Left, including many moderates, unknowingly brainwashed from birth, have concluded that American culture is not worthy of being maintained. They believe that we are inherently evil, the U.S. Constitution must be scrapped, and everything must be restarted from scratch under Democrat rule, ultimately yielding to one-world rule. 

Their preferences for implementing no-cash bail, defunding the police, squeezing the middle class, weakening the military, over-printing money, and so much more all have one essential objective: to weaken us on every dimension.

The full measure of the Left’s sinister intent is not widely comprehended by the American populace and, of course, is never accurately portrayed by the fakestream media. Then, once arriving at a certain level of equilibrium, they will charge forward. As a prime example, with Mamdani being elected in New York, the next day, his tenor changes, his statements become bolder, and his true intent emerges.

In the Oval Office, he makes nice with President Trump for one day, all for show. Soon enough, voters will come to realize they were duped by him. All around us, the same scenario plays out repeatedly, primarily on the East and Left (West) coast.

Powerful Propaganda

As disastrous as their programs, policies, and results prove to be, because the fakestream media is totally committed to Leftist causes, every story is spun accordingly. Whether it is inflation, immigration, blue city crime, etc., Democrat viewpoints will be bankrolled and propped up for years, even as the fakestream media dies a slow death.

Despite the acceleration of alternative news sources that strive for some measure of objectivity, the fakestream media could hang on well past Donald Trump's second term. Even with Republican presidents for 12 years, Democrats still will be in a prime position to spread their poison. The hoaxeswill not dissipate. The bogus stories will continue on. Voter fraud and election tampering might still not be resolved despite President Trump’s sterling efforts.

Leftists have successfully hoodwinked tens of millions of voters, voters who have been thoroughly programmed to pledge their allegiance to false authorities. Their numbers and efficacy cannot be denied. The danger that the Founding Fathers feared most – the enemy from within – is here.

A Decades-Long Battle

We will attain victories sporadically. Like "whack-a-mole," as soon as we deal with one Leftist promulgated hoax or crisis, another and another and anotherwill arise. We are facing a decades-long battle. Like Moses, we will not be around to experience the promise land.

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Democrats Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste

Townhall 

Like many of my fellow Americans, I was heartbroken to learn that Sarah Beckstrom, a member of the National Guard from West Virginia, succumbed to her injuries after she was shot by an Islamic terrorist on the streets of Washington, D.C. Her fellow Guardsman, Andrew Wolfe, remains hospitalized.

Beckstrom was 20 years old, not much more than my eldest son. I cannot fathom the grief her parents are enduring right now, or the nightmare Andrew Wolfe's family is living. They are in my thoughts and prayers.

However, I refuse to let their lives be used by Democrats to strip me of my rights and freedoms. The Islamic terrorist who shot them, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, is an Afghan national who overstayed his visa. He used a handgun to commit a heinous act of terrorism.

But instead of reconsidering the risks and dangers of importing millions of people from backwards cultures who despise Americans, and then feeding them anti-military propaganda as the "Seditious Six" have done, the Democrats have decided the real problem — yet again — is me and my guns.

This time, it's not just those scary "assault rifles" the Democrats are after. It's every gun. Including handguns, the most ubiquitous firearm in the U.S., with more than 150 million in circulation. 

ALERT: Dem. Rep. Wasserman Schultz demands tighter gun laws after Afghan national's revolver ambush kills Guardsman: "We need to address gun violence" pic.twitter.com/kdP14YaFhC

— E X X ➠A L E R T S (@ExxAlerts) November 28, 2025

As I write this, my gun safe sits about six feet to my left, on the floor next to my bed. Two long guns are also in my room. To date, those guns have killed precisely zero people, and it will stay that way unless someone threatens my life and safety. There was a time I used to think that Debbie Wasserman Schultz and her ilk genuinely believed that if I hand those guns over, Islamic terrorists and the various thugs they repeatedly let out of prison in the name of "criminal justice reform" and "equity" will maybe stop killing innocents.

I no longer think that, because they don't. They want me unarmed so I can live at the mercy of monsters like Lakanwal, George Floyd, Decarlos Brown, Jr. (arrested 14 times before murdering Iryna Zarutska), or Courtney Boose (arrested 99 times before stabbing a man in a gas station parking lot), or Alexander Dickey (arrested 39 times before murdering Logan Federico), or Lawrence Reed (arrested at least 49 times before he set Bethany MaGee on fire on Chicago's Blue Line train).

They want to make sure these criminals can assault, rape, and murder me, and that I'll either be a) killed or b) punished like Daniel Penny or Kyle Rittenhouse if I successfully defend myself against them. It is an insidious form of anarcho-tyranny, and a violation of the fundamental human right to self-defense — one that's not only enshrined in our Constitution, thanks to the Second Amendment, but by the very fact that my life has inherent value (and more value than any of the thugs who would seek to do me harm).

So no, Democrats. You are not getting my guns. Not today, not tomorrow, not ever. Because that's not the solution. The solution is to stop importing Islamic terrorists and to stop setting violent thugs loose on our streets.

You won't do either, so I'm keeping my firearms to keep me safe.

CNN Reporter Says the Quiet Part Out Loud About Afghans and the National Guard Attack in DC

Townhall 

Thanksgiving Eve was a national tragedy: two members of the National Guard, Sarah Beckstrom, 20, and Andrew Wolfe, 24, were ambushed near the White House. Both were shot by Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, an Afghan national who had overstayed his visa. Beckstrom died on Thanksgiving Day.

All immigration applications for Afghan nationals have been suspended until formal security vetting is completed. Lakanwal entered the U.S. under the Biden administration and worked with U.S. Special Forces in Afghanistan. He was part of the hordes of Afghans Joe Biden allowed into the country. 

Now, in the aftermath of this attack—Lakanwal drove from Washington State to DC to commit this assault—the media is concerned about the Afghans living in fear or something. We don’t care. Deport them all tomorrow. Also, par for the course for CNN: let’s pounce on this, but not the fact that Biden’s immigration policies imported terrorists onto our shores. A CNN reporter inadvertently said the quiet part out loud as ‘Gunther Eagleman’ pointed out: 

“This is the worst case scenario for every Afghan immigrant in this country.” 

Translation: An Afghan just AMBUSHED and KlLLED  Americans and the real tragedy, according to CNN, is that people might start asking why we keep importing military-age males from TERR0R hotspots and handing them residency.  

Bonus admission NOBODY asked for: 

Vermont’s top Afghan advocate brags they’re “deeply integrated” because the state desperately needs their labor. 

 So we sacrificed safety and sovereignty for dairy farms and motel staffing. 

Never let them memory-hole this clip. 

Wolfe remains in critical condition. Lakanwal has been charged, but they’re going to upgrade the rap sheet with the death of Beckstrom. He’ll face first-degree murder charges.  

Kash Patel Has Intriguing News About Comey Case and Those 'Burn Bags'

RedState 

As we reported, a judge tossed the case against former FBI Director James Comey for technical reasons, ruling the appointment of the interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan, who had filed the matter, was invalid. So it wasn't a ruling on the merits of the case, and it was dismissed without prejudice, so it could potentially be filed again, although there's a potential question about the statute of limitations. 

The Justice Department (DOJ) has already indicated that it would appeal that decision. So I don't think Comey should be taking that victory lap just yet, because it surely sounds like more is coming. 

FBI Director Kash Patel also made some intriguing statements during an interview with the Epoch Times. He said that while the DOJ might be pursuing the appeal, they also had "numerous options to proceed and we're executing on all those options." 

"So we're not done," Patel pointedly noted. "I would say stay tuned for right after Thanksgiving, and you'll see multiple responses, in my opinion." Hmm, that sounds good, pass the popcorn. That certainly sounds like he has more than just the one case as an option. He does seem confident about what he has.

That wasn't all. Patel had more juicy news for us about those "burn bags." We reported at the end of July on the stunning news that they found a room at the FBI with the bags, which had Russia probe documents in them. That raised a lot of questions as to what might be in those documents. Patel said all of that information is going to come out, so that we will be able to see it. 

“You’re going to see everything we found in that room, in one way or another, be it through investigation, public trial, or disclosure to the Congress,” Patel said.

“It is the single largest weaponization, politicization of law enforcement against America, and specifically targeting a political party, because the institutional elite in Washington, D.C., didn’t like them and didn’t want them to win.

“The American public deserves to have not only accountability but reform to make sure that never happens.”

I think it's more than time that all this be broken open, we see everything, and we finally get some accountability.

Is There More Legal Trouble on Tap for NY Attorney General Letitia James?

RedState 

I don't know about you, readers, but it seems like we just got finished with the mortgage fraud charges against Democrat New York State Attorney General Letitia James getting thrown out by a judge. The trouble might not be over for her on the legal front, though, if a new complaint targeting the Empire State politician pans out.

According to an exclusive New York Post report, a conservative legal organization has filed an ethics complaint against James with the Attorney Grievance Committee, asking it to "immediately investigate the allegations" and, if it deems the evidence "substantiat[es]" those allegations, then mete out whatever corrective "[discipline]" the committee chooses:

The Center to Advance Security in America submitted a request with the Manhattan and Bronx-focused Attorney Grievance Committee for the state to investigate James’ potentially “illegal and dishonest conduct” leading to the criminal charges.

“Fraud, misrepresentation, honesty and trustworthiness are all factors that the Rules of Professional Conduct expressly factor when weighing whether to discipline an attorney,” wrote Curtis Schube, the group’s director of research and policy, in the four-page complaint.

“The Committee, therefore, should immediately investigate the allegations against James and, if by ‘preponderance of the evidence’ the allegations are substantiated, she should be disciplined accordingly.”

Now, we need to be clear-eyed about this; it is a deep blue state, New York. The chances that a lawyer group in New York would take up a request like this about a Democrat advocate are pretty slim. Here's the silver lining, though: Whether something comes of this new effort or not, the case on the alleged real estate fraud is not over, according to the Trump Justice Department, which appealed the ruling right after it was issued on Nov. 24. 

Remember what Attorney General Pam Bondi said at the time: "We’ll be taking all available legal action, including an immediate appeal to hold Letitia James and James Comey accountable for their unlawful conduct...I'm going to keep going on this."

Stay tuned!

No Intel Intercepts – Hungarian PM Viktor Orban Meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin

Conservative  Treehouse 

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban not only represents a friendly European voice to the objectives of the Trump administration, but also Orban is a close personal friend of President Trump both in and out of office.

Trump and Orban have long held a very close relationship, including friendship with the family of First-Lady Melania Trump.  They are all very close; Shinzo Abe-type close; both from the White House and time in Mar-a-Lago.

On November 7, 2025, Prime Minister Viktor Orban again visited President Trump in the White House, including dinner with the Trump cabinet.  Then word of the Ukraine corruption scandal broke.

A week following the White House visit (November 14) Prime Minister Orban said, “The golden illusion of Ukraine is falling apart. A wartime mafia network with countless ties to President Zelensky has been exposed. The energy minister has already resigned, and the main suspect has fled the country. This is the chaos into which the Brusselian elite want to pour European taxpayers’ money, where whatever isn’t shot off on the front lines ends up in the pockets of the war mafia. Madness. Thank you, but we want no part of this.”

The direct and non-pretending remarks from Viktor Orban highlighted a sense of the issue carried by a majority of the commonsense people around Russia, Europe, America and the world in general.  However, soon thereafter, as President Trump, Steve Witkoff and Marco Rubio were delivering deliberate terms to finally end the conflict, the western intelligence network leaked an intercepted phone call between Witkoff and Putin’s senior foreign policy advisor Ushakov.

The intelligence apparatus, likely originating from the U.K. purposefully wanted to disrupt all this peaceful resolution effort. The conflict has both benefactors and beneficiaries that do not want peace, both here and in Europe.

One week later, Vladimir Putin then gives a stunningly detailed and pragmatic speech outlining his perspective on the status of the issues from the sidelines of an economic cooperation summit in Kyrgyzstan.  Either Russia wins militarily or Ukraine/Europe/NATO moves forward on a diplomatic solution that delivers the same outcome.

It matters not, from the perspective of the Russian Federation, which approach to the same outcome is selected by those who control Ukraine.  Putin also notes the Ushakov/Witkoff intel leak is intended to undermine the negotiated settlement strategy and -as a consequence- he is not going to engage himself in the rabbit holes of western intelligence manipulation.

The day after President Putin returns to Moscow, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban arrives.

The European leaders were furious at the unexpected visit by Prime Minister Orban to Moscow for a bilateral discussion with President Vladimir Putin.  No one knew the meeting was going to take place; observing pearls were clutched.

It doesn’t take a geopolitical weed-walker to see the basic background.  Orban represents another channel directly from President Trump and the peace allies in Eastern Europe to President Putin.  Again, Orban offers to host the next meeting between President Trump and President Putin which hopefully will include President Zelenskyy and the coming to terms.

Participating in the meeting from the Russian side were Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak, and Presidential Aide Yury Ushakov. Representing Hungary were Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto, Minister of Construction and Transport Janos Lazar, and Chief National Security Advisor to the Prime Minister of Hungary Marcell Biro.

President of Russia Vladimir Putin: “Mr Prime Minister, colleagues. Allow me to extend a very warm welcome to you here in Moscow.

It is a great pleasure to see you in person. We are in regular contact by phone and our teams are in constant communication. I am particularly pleased that, despite the undoubted challenges of the present time, our relationship remains strong and continues to move forward.

Ours is a relationship with a long and complex history, but today it is built on the strongest foundation of the best in our shared past, as well as on pragmatism – a pragmatic approach to our bilateral ties.

We have known each other for many years, and I know you first and foremost as a steadfast champion of Hungary’s interests and the Hungarian people.

While our views on certain international issues may not always align, we have developed a relationship where we can speak with complete frankness and address any issues. This open dialogue allows us not only to address them but also to work together on finding solutions.

We are aware of your balanced position on the situation in Ukraine.

Turning to our bilateral relations, I must note with regret that last year we saw a decline in mutual trade. This was primarily due to external restrictions, but the scale of the decrease, 23 percent, is nonetheless significant.

That said, the outlook is promising. This year, we have already seen a modest recovery, with growth of over seven percent.

Our energy cooperation, of course, remains a cornerstone of our partnership, and there are several specific matters that we need to address.

Once again, we are delighted to have you with us. Welcome.”

Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orban (retranslated): “Mr President, First of all, I would like to thank you for the opportunity to hold talks with you here today. This is the 14th time I have met with you in the capacity of prime minister.

I believe that we have accomplished a great deal, considering the current historical moment, for the development of interaction between our nations, and I sincerely hope that we will be able to achieve even more.

As Mr President knows, we are pursuing a sovereign foreign policy. We have been consistent in our policy towards Russia. We are cooperating in vital spheres and have not yielded to external pressure; we have not terminated our interaction in any of these vital spheres.

I would like to emphasise that stable Russian energy deliveries in the past, today, and in the future are the foundation of Hungary’s energy security. We highly value the stability and predictability of Russian energy deliveries. Hungary is interested in maintaining an energy dialogue with your country, and today I would like to discuss this block of issues in detail.

Ukraine is a neighbour of Hungary, which is why Hungary fully feels the effects of the Ukrainian conflict, including a considerable economic impact, because economic cooperation is being hindered by the hostilities. This is true both for Europe and for us.

I would also like to reiterate what I told you during our previous meeting: Hungary is interested in peace, and we sincerely hope that the peace initiatives recently made public will eventually bring about peace.

Mr President, our meeting today offers an opportunity to reaffirm that Hungary is ready to provide a venue for such negotiations and to assist in the successful conclusion of that process.

I would like to thank you once again for meeting with us.”

Vladimir Putin: “Thank you for your reaction to the possibility of my meeting with the US President in your country. The idea was put forward by Donald, who said, “We have good relations with Hungary, and both you and I have good relations with Viktor, so I suggest this option.” We accepted it with pleasure, of course.

If there comes a moment in our negotiations when we will use Budapest as the venue, I would be glad to do so. I would like to thank you for your readiness to provide assistance.”

Now, many people will see this as yet another foreign policy distraction for President Trump. However, that could not be more incorrect.

President Trump is in the process of resetting the western economic and trade system to remove the tentacles of the globalist left.

A strategic partnership with Russia completely upends the global alliance and financial control system. There is nothing in the world of geopolitical networks (banking, finance, trade or military) more comprehensively disruptive to the current order of things than the possibility of Russia and the largest, most powerful and anchoring country in the West forming an alliance. Nothing else even comes close.

If President Trump can pull this off, everything changes.

EVERYTHING!

The main globalist, European and London-based defense against this looming nationalistic alliance is continued conflict with Russia.

I think Trump can pull it off.

I think only President Donald Trump is capable of destroying the old system and introducing a new dawn of nationalistic prosperity.  However, in order to get this level of tectonic change delivered, President Trump needs to blitz the media with shiny things, distracting things and things they can attack him with.

President Trump is drawing western media into a controlled geography.  The media are rushing into the area to attack him and his radical domestic policies on tariffs, immigration, deportation, citizenship baselines, Biden pardons, Venezuela drug boats etc.  However, Trump isn’t really in this valley; instead, he’s way over there working on something far more consequential.

I believe President Putin is willing to give Trump every opportunity for success, and I believe Viktor Orban was there to talk to him about it.