In 1972, “only Nixon could go to China.” In 2025, only Trump could go to Budapest.

Fifty-three years ago, the United States was still the leader of the free world — the indispensable nation. Now, American democracy is collapsing. President Donald Trump, the American right and the MAGA movement have put themselves in the orbit of Vladimir Putin’s Russia, Viktor Orbán’s Hungary and other authoritarian regimes.

We have truly stepped through the looking glass into an upside-down world and inverted reality. Or more precisely, we have been pushed through it.

On Tuesday, POLITICO reported that Trump is preparing to travel to Budapest to host a trilateral so-called “peace summit” between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russian President Vladimir Putin to open negotiations with an ey

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