Thread by @TTarkkailija

1/ Steve Bannon’s trusted man, Matthew Tyrmand, had a speech at CPAC 2022 in May in Hungary. “Budapest is like modern Day Rome in contemporary culture war”, Tyrmand says. Tyrmand considers the Hungarian media to represent free Western pluralism.

2/ Matthew Tyrmand praises news service run by his friend Stefan Tompson: ”We have social media accounts that has become journalist platforms in itself like Visegrad24 Twitter account with nearly 300K followers that has coverage of Central European Politics better than ANY…

3/ …mainstream news desk like FT or BBC…."

Tyrmand says that he works also on the editorial board of the European Conservative media. He call it “academic style conservative media”. The timeline also includes entertainment targeted at CE's followers.

4/ EC’s Twitter account likes e.g. "Western Traditionalist" account. It likes Paul Joseph Watson, who has worked e.g. to Sputnik and RT and spread conspiracy theories.

5/ EC publishes an interview with Rand Paul, in which he continues to repeat his position that Finland and Sweden's joining NATO will unnecessarily escalate the relationship with Russia. Article describe widely weakness of SE’s defence capabilities. europeanconservative.com/articles/essay…

6/ Finland is almost completely ignored in the story. Matthew Tyrmand admires Rand Paul and he appears in pictures with him.

7/ November 27, 2022, the EC publishes article by Robert Semonsen about how Russia’s LGBTQ legislation is being further tightened. No direct position is taken on the subject. europeanconservative.com/articles/news/…

8/ Tweets achieve likes by followers of European Conservative. At least in the initial stages, these accounts are accounts that support Russian politics.

9/ Journalist Semonsen has published one tweet including word Ukraine. It tells about "the a large influx of Indian and African refugees fleeing the war in Ukraine to Hungary and towards Berlin". In other respects, the war in Ukraine has not inspired his journalistic ambition.

10/ European Conservative writes about the generous support granted by Orban’s government to Ukraine. However, the text of the story shows that it is actually Hungary’s share of the 18 billion loan granted by the EU’s joint agreement.
europeanconservative.com/articles/news/…

11/ European Conservative publishes a thread related to John Mearsheimer’s speech at Századvég institute in Budapest on November 8, 2022.
Mearsheimer believes that NATO expansion has forced Russia into “balancing behavior”.

12/ The institute criticizes “US interference in Hungary’s internal politics” and says that Hungarians oppose financing Ukraine.
szazadveg.hu/en/

13/ Tyrmand has made a few for European Conservative media, but some of the links have been removed. For example, this article about Duda’s victory:
web.archive.org/web/2020092723…

EC tweet also a link to an American Newsweek article about Mateusz Morawiecki.

14/ Written by Matthew Tyrmand and Josh Hammer. The article is written in an admiring tone. Morawiecki appears strict towards Russia.
newsweek.com/exclusive-poli…

15/ An interesting contrast is Hammer’s position on the war in Ukraine. He does not like the USA sending armed or financial support to Ukraine and says that Zelensky makes him feel sick. END

Update:
ft.com/content/5ac5e2…