So they started to post the thingies for the "opinion expressing vote" mentioned here >>54185
It contains a paper that says:
>Do you want Ukraine in the EU?
And to circles for yes and no to mark... and a return envelope is included.
This wole thing is just "national consultation" rebranded.
Two more papers are included that informs people about how bad would be if Ukraine joined, fake, twisted arguments, like
>oh no all the job seekers of Ukraine will take away the job from Hungarians
And the like.
Thank you Fidesz, thank you Orbán.

Let's go back, have to continue this: >>54236
I wrote the context in which the US acquires new clients. There are contexts for maintenance too. Maybe we could call these "cases".
One important thing to remember is, that decision makers don't look at a client, classify into one from the possible cases, and apply policy instruments, but reports coming in about the clients and with the reports suggestions what should be done. There is a palette of policy instruments available, decision makers apply these - based on the suggestions or later evaluations, etc, and life goes on. The authors of the book examined the clients and the applied policy instruments and they created these cases as abstractions.

From routine maintenance point of view, we can see economically deprived and wealthy clients, the US offers them economic, military and political "help". The authors use a different word depending how well of a client is. In case of poor countries it's "assistance", but with rich countries it's "contributions". I don't think the difference is in the amount of help, but in case of poorer countries, the US has to act more dirty and in a more direct but more covert fashion. For example:
In Ecuador, for example, the CIA had on its payroll in the early 1960s the chief of the intelligence and personnel departments of the national police, the vice president of the Senate, one of the leading political journalists, leaders of several political parties, a cabinet minister, the manager of one of the largest banks, labor leaders, and an important figure in the federation of university students.
Or:
In some cases, heads of state or government themselves were recipients of regular payments from the CIA. [...] regular stipends went to the leaders of Jordan ($750,000 per year to the King), Cyprus, Kenya, Zaire, Guyana, South Vietnam, Taiwan, the Philippines, South Korea, Chile, Mexico, Venezuela, Thailand, and Panama.

picrel:
Anastasio Somoza, dictator of Nicaragua. His rise was a direct consequence of US military training programs. In some of the Caribbean countries, where the US sent her marines to intervene, they had to organize a new armed force after the military was defeated or disbanded. Nicaragua was the same. They created the National Guard, with Somoza in the helm, and he simply took the power over (with rigged election after he forced the prez to resign).

>>54268
cont.
The larger topic in maintenance is the maintenance by intervention.
Sometimes situations arise which may cause the loss of a client, so the US have to intervene. This can range from economic crises to insurgencies. In these situations Washington has to be directly involved and take over certain functionalities of the regime from the client, and has to intervene in the affairs of the client. The book defines intervention:
It involves any policy in which an activity by a regime, essential to its survival, is taken over by an outside actor.
In this case the outside actor is the US.
In the client-patron relationship the client accepts surveillance and problem solving by the patron. This ensures a presence in the internal affairs of the client states. Intervention, ie. taking over specific activities, is a step beyond of this. It's not just about providing aid (economic, political, military), which the client uses, but do stuff instead of the regime.

There are obviously non-military and military intervention situation. First the first:
1. Emergency economic assistance.
Taking over the financing of the client. The US govt. can give money directly, but most often relying on loans, from banks or other clients, or most notably for the IMF (which was set up precisely for these things it also does economic surveillance of clients). The 1995 Mexican bailout is a good example (Mexican Debt Disclosure Act of 1995).
2. Emergency covert political assistance
Typically intervening elections due to the fear that the "wrong" party will come to power. Since this is a covert activity, usually the CIA does this and finances the propaganda of the chosen parties and paying various organizations and individuals. Example Chile, they sponsored Allende's opponents, even a party which was seen drawing votes from him too.
3. Jettisoning the president
The leader of the regime loses political support in the country, and the military has to be maintained to keep the regime in power as long as the unwanted politician can be "jettisoned" to appease the masses. Example is the Philippines' Ferdinand Marcos.
4. Losing the client
Compared to the previous case, in this situation the military could not be maintained, held together, to keep the regime alive. Only one example: Iran in 1978-79 when the Islamic Revolution happened. They not just failed to create a military government, but the Iranian army literally melted, 500-1000 soldiers deserted each day.

>>54270
cont.
Here are the military intervention situations, these are the cases when the US takes over some of the military side of things to solve a crisis threatening to overturn the regime. When emergency arises there are other means to intervene besides sending the troops, this is the first case.
1. Emergency military aid and advisers
When the client has sufficient manpower sending equipment and advisers might just be the thing to do. Now these things they do as part of routine maintenance, the difference is in this case the US trains (via "advisers") whole units for imminent combat, in the size from battalions up to corps. 'member the NATO trained Ukrainian brigades, this is it. Advisors also can advise the high command on strategy and whatnot. 'member Ukraine? As for the equipment the ones given in routine context can take years to arrive, since usually they are produced after orders placed, in this case however the US ships from existing stocks - payments postponed or waived entirely. This also really sounds liek Ukraine, no? Anyway as the book says classic example is South Vietnam in the early 1960s, initiated by Kennedy. Another example is Nationalist China during WWII.

>>54271
cont.
In the next cases combat troops are involved. These aren't always own troops, can be a proxy's as well.
2. Competent clients: open-ended combat
When the client deemed competent enough, but the troop pool is getting emptied (by enemy attacks) the US is willing to get into a conflict where no clear end or even a victory in sight. They commit troops, even in growing fashion. One example the authors found: South Vietnam in 1965-68. The VC was annihilating battalions of the ARVN, so the US decided to take over the role of military in two provinces and fight the VC.
3. Competent clients: life preserver
The decision makers are optimistic the local military can be built up and become competent, so the US troop commitment has a near end. Sometimes they miscalculate ofc. South Korea 1950-51, when South Korea was barely more than a puppet for the US it's really interesting what they write about this. Nicaragua 1927-33, although events starts earlier. And Afghanistan, Operation Enduring Freedom...
4. Incompetent clients: easy wins
The client is not and won't ever be competent, but the enemy is not formidable. When combat troops deployed, a relatively rapid and low-cost victory is expected. The US bothers with training and creating a local force, but it's more symbolic, they aren't really expected to do any lifting. Lebanon 1958. Zaire 1978, not to mix this up with the 1977 Moroccan (US client) intervention. In 1978 the US herself flew in French Legionnaires and and Belgian paratroopers. Then came the Moroccans again and some other African contingents.
5. Incompetent clients: basket cases
So the client is not and won't ever be competent, essentially no local forces, but the enemy is formidable. The victory is neither sure or rapid. Would the US public support sending their sons into a war like this? Nope, and the US does not send them. The US organizes proxy forces instead, covertly. Via the CIA. In Laos, 1962-73, a parallel war raged on, separate from the Vietnam conflict, between the US and North Vietnam. The communist was countered by a Hmong army, brought in from Thailand, and bombing, launched from Thai airfields.

India vs. Pakistan
Both are rattling their sabers, some terrorist "terrorists"? in Punjab who are hiding out in Pakistan. etc.
Listening to Firstpost news. It's Indian news agency so their side is covered. They are not pleased by Trump, who speaks of solidarity but financing Pakisani F-16 maintenance with $400 million.

This India-Pakistan conflict reminds me of this.
>next civil war will happen in social media
>next india-paki war will happen in social media
Fake videos from vidya and belligerent tweets. Just wait and see.

Next long term budget by EU starts by 2028. They are starting to shape it, I found something interesting here:
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20250502IPR28212/parliament-s-priorities-for-the-eu-s-post-2027-long-term-budget
>Parliament’s vision and demands for the EU’s 2028-2034 budget
>have to address Russia’s war of aggression on Ukraine
So they still expecting the war to go on three years from 2025. Who will fight it? Primary school students of Ukraine?

Löl.
This story about Hungarian military spies gathering info for a Hungarian invasion story is ridiculous.
1. Hungary is in NATO. Whatever NATO knows we know it too.
2. Hungary had to renounce of all previous Hungarian lands in order to be accepted into EU and NATO. Especially NATO does not take states in which have border disputes.
3. Orbán, Szíjjártó and the Fidesz govt. has one good reason to bleet about peace and that the war has to be stopped, etc. If we hit hawkish tunes, right in that seconds the voices around will cry irredentism, and that Hungary wants to take back her historical lands, and this would drive a wedge in the relations with our neighbours. We can't have large military for the same reason, if we'd start to build up to a force of 200K we had in the final days of the communism, it would be cited as rearmament to get back the clay. We also participate in bunch of missions, most of these are peacekeeping, medical, technical whatever forces.

However, as I previously posted about this, I found it likely that NATO countries will occupy parts of Ukraine (the western corner, including Kárpátalja), where they'll enter citing humanitarian crisis, after the AFU collapses and people start to flee to the west. These NATO countries could include Hungary too, although I doubt even this.

Putin talking after Victory Day about the visitors, foreign relations, and the peace offers.
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=YpjvoeB1G58
https://youtube.com/watch?v=YpjvoeB1G58 [Embed]
Essentially:
1. Ukraine is nazi;
2. more deals with Chiner;
3. the first Istanbul deal was torpedoed by the West;
4. Moscow wants a truce which isn't used for rearming the AFU and build new fortifications.

>>52625
Regina, the once popular girl has to make new friends at her new, conservative school. Problems arrive when she becomes enemies with Lívia, the school's queen bee, and falls in love with Márk, a musician. If these weren't enough, she decides to organize a cheerleader team.

Álom.net was widely panned by viewers for its poor writing, acting, problems with continuity, and cultural inaccuracy, among others. 444.hu wrote that it is "the worst movie of all time, and that’s why it became a cult film".[1] Furthermore, 24.hu and Index.hu each named it the worst Hungarian film ever made,[2][3] and it gained international notoriety by becoming the lowest rated film on IMDb's Bottom 100 list in 2011.[4] British film magazine Total Film named it the fourth worst film ever made and FMC.hu included it on their list of the ten worst films ever made.[5][6] Origo called it "one of the worst Hungarian films of [the decade]"

Wiki page doesn't give a good enough description of the film

Imma post this in the movie thread on /operate/. Could be a funy joge stream :DD

>>52625
>bad hungarian film
Oh god. I'm lucky I've not seen it.
Just some of the names ring a bell from the cast list.

>>52626
>Could be a funy joge stream
Perhaps.

The Last of Us Season 2 is getting aired. I see I wrote about S1 here >>50102
It continues the same, girlbosses everywhere, butifel multikulti heaven, lesbian relationship in 1st episode. It's 2023 still for some producers.

>>50168
Heh I can't recall anything from FROM.

Watched El Eternauta Season 1. 6 episodes of an Argentinian telly show, based on a comic book.
Curious it came out 2 days after the big Spanish outage, since the series core component is a blackout.
The background story is solid, I don't want to spoiler it too much. Is it a prelude to Startship Troopers? I dunno.
The story itself however, the events, happenings, it did not feel that interesting, it did not engage me that much. The characters are realistic, every day people, some dumb, mostly understandable motivations. But perhaps this is the reason why I found flat, the heroes aren't that interesting.
The end of the season lays the foundation for the next, not sure if they'll continue.
All in all far better than The Last of US - half of episode 4 was lesbian nonsense.

Oh golly.

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>>52634
>I encourage all the Bernds to try it. My family picks mushrooms for generations. I learnt the trick from youtube.

I'm still a complete newbie at it though. I'm still buying from the store for the time being.

I saw some mushrooms growing from a dead tree. But maybe it's not a good idea to get em.

Also had some growing near where I lived once that were white and brown-ish. They were a lot of them though, but I didn't get any. Maybe next time, ill do some research online and pick them up if they look good.

>>52673
>mushrooms growing from a dead tree.
Some good, most bad or inedible so as usual, if you don't know 'em, stay away.
>white and brown-ish
Could be similar to agaricus campestris or a macrolepiota. But just from that description I can't guess.
>do some research online and pick them up if they look good.
By touching a mushroom you don't get poisoned. You can pick one take it home and do a thorough research on it. You can discard it after.
Dig it out carefully and take the whole thing, don't cut it down. Because the shape of the stem can help, and for example the existence of volva (see here: >>40533) can help you exclude many species.
You can gather it into a plastic bag, but one that's made of some kind of cloth, cotton/linen/canvas, would be the best.

>>52675
t.hanks for the advice Hungarybernd.

Lately, I tried eating raw, dried mushrooms. And..I'm suprised by how good it tastes. I guess I liek mushrooms however I get it.

>>54250
There could be species that edible dried. Those I know and pick I'm fairy sure they don't, they have to be re-hydrated, and cooked. Tho they grind dried mushroom and use it as seasoning, I know with boletes they do. So if chewed properly perhaps it's okay.
Thing is mushroom has a lot of cellulose. And people have a hard time digesting that. If you get tummy ache stop, otherwise it's fine I guess.

And...
The Award...
For the First Recorded Case of Monkeypox Outside Africa...
Goes to...
SWEDEN!
Yes!
Give them a great applause!
https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/08/1153231
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08-16/first-case-of-mpox-confirmed-outside-of-africa-in-sweden/104232634

Blackout in all of Iberia. No Iberian was injured it happened during siesta.
https://www.thelocal.es/20250428/in-pictures-nationwide-blackout-causes-chaos-in-spain
Some photos, but how do you photo the lack of electricity in the wires?

https://www.thelocal.es/20250428/breaking-nationwide-blackout-hits-spain
Shit happened monday at 12:30 local time. Took about 10 hours to restore the juice in every region.
Apparently part of France was also affected.

https://www.thelocal.es/20250429/power-returns-to-parts-of-spain-grid-operator
>Sanchez said about 15 gigawatts of electricity, more than half of the power being consumed at the time, "suddenly disappeared" in about five seconds.

https://www.thelocal.es/20250428/spain-nuclear-plants-in-safe-shutdown-mode-after-blackout
>The shutdown of the country's nuclear plants was "in line with their design" when confronted with an unexpected power outage, the Spanish Nuclear Safety Council (CSN) said in a statement.
Not sure what is the reasoning behind that. How the lack of electricity can damage NPPs? Does the system make them suddenly produce more electricity if the load is not balanced? It would be cool if there was an explanation.

I'm checking El Pais, but I've see no articles there either that would explain the cause.
I think this is the latest: