#jd-vance
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Foreign Policy Failures
Orbán Loses by a Landslide Despite Vance Flying to Budapest to Save Him
Viktor Orbán — Trump and Vance's model for illiberal governance — lost a landslide to Péter Magyar's Tisza Party: 138 seats to 55, a two-thirds supermajority. Vance personally flew to Budapest days before the election to boost him. Trump dangled economic support. Record turnout since the end of Communism. Orbán is out after 16 years.
Foreign Policy Failures
Vance After 21 Hours in Islamabad: "They Have Chosen Not to Accept Our Terms"
Vice President JD Vance — lead U.S. negotiator — announced the Iran talks are dead after a 21-hour marathon in Islamabad. Both delegations going home. No nuclear deal. No Lebanon ceasefire. No Strait of Hormuz reopened. Six weeks of war, 13 dead, $25 billion spent — to end at "they chose not to accept our terms."