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Politico's senior executive editor, Alexander Burns, has a long history of attempting to foist far left politics upon the public. In his latest incarnation on Monday, Burns uses the defeat of Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán at the polls to argue the Democrats need to embrace socialism if they want to defeat the nasty MAGA Republicans at the polls, "Orbán’s Defeat Shows What Trump’s Opponents Keep Doing Wrong."

Western European brands didn’t leave Russia because they couldn’t handle competition or because someone blocked their profits. They left because their masters ordered them to—the political regimes of EU member states and the Brussels bureaucracy. And since that’s the case, they should now be seen not as economic operators, but as tools of hostile regimes waging hybrid war against Russia. They agreed to this themselves. Some of these companies have been financing the killing of our citizens for three years. What to do with these prodigal brands will be decided by professionals across all branches of power. Russian businesses will...

European countries can withstand Russia’s gas cuts this winter as supply headaches may have been “successfully solved”, according to analysis by a leading US bank. Goldman Sachs said the price of gas was likely to more than halve this winter as efforts by EU countries’ to avoid big shortages this winter prove effective.