Michael Polignano, John Morgan, Ferenc Almássy

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Editor’s Note:
Responsibility for the tardy release of this podcast is on my shoulders and I would like to apologize to my co-hosts, our guest, and our listenership for it.—Mike Polignano

For the fourth installment of Counter-Currents Radio Weekly, John Morgan and Michael Polignano decided to interview independent journalist Ferenc Almassy, a Hungarian citizen of primarily French and Hungarian descent who is the founder and editor of the conservative news analysis website, The Visegrad Post.

Topics include:

• Introductions: 0:00


• Ferenc explains the purpose and mission of The Visegrad Post: 0:22


• A brief background of the V4: 2:30


• The V4, the EU, and the migrant crisis: 4:38


• Orban’s Transylvania speech of 22 July 2017[link]: 8:12


• Homo sovieticus, Homo economicus, and the gap between the two Europes: 10:58


• The strengthening of the V4 over the past 12 months: 14:33


• Orban’s rise to power: 15:12


• Hungary’s economic situation: 19:03


• The wage gap between Hungary and Germany: 24:52


• “The red line” Hungary and other V4 countries cannot cross: 26:10


• Fidesz, Jobbik, and Hungarian party politics: 30:33


• Orban’s speech and Donald Trump: 37:36


• “Obama made it in Cairo, but Trump made it in Warsaw”: 43:10


• Ferenc’s trip to Bosnia: 45:58


• Unhealed wounds from the Yugoslav war: 49:20


• How Arabs and other non-European Muslims gained a foothold in Bosnia: 51:37


• Salafist colonies in Bosnia and their impact: 54:02


• Ferenc’s visit to a Salafist colony in Bosnia: 57:08


• Ferenc’s own ethnic background and his reasons for leaving his birthplace of France: 63:00