The First Gulf War’s Lessons for What to Do—and Not Do—in Iran; Orban’s Mafia State Could Fall—or Cement Itself; Trump, Xi, and the Case for Strategic Calm
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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Budapest, Hungary, March 2026 

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