Roger Douglas travelled as an international consultant on privatisation and structural reform in countries as various as Russia, Brazil, Mexico, Pakistan, Canada, Peru, Vietnam, China, Australia, South Africa and Singapore. Much of his consultancy work is on behalf of the World Bank.
AKA Rogernomics - which was seen as the economic model for New Public Management.
https://nzhistory.govt.nz/keyword/roger-douglas
He consulted in Russia on behalf of institutions like the World Bank, advising Yeltsin's administration on implementing market-based economic transformations, deregulation, and structural reforms.
And we know what Russia was like in the nineties. In some ways Ukraine is still in it.
Well, New Zealand in the nineties is a thing
Hungary blocks key step in Ukraine’s EU bid -- Politico
Kiev should not be fast-tracked into the bloc, Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar has said
Published 24 Jun, 2026
Hungary has delayed a key procedural step in the EU membership bids of Ukraine and Moldova,complicating Kiev’s plan to open all six accession clusters by mid-July, Politico has reported. Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyarhas said fast-tracking Ukraine’s EU accession would be premature.
Kiev has repeatedly demanded a faster path into the bloc,with Vladimir Zelensky insisting on full membership no later than 2027despite opposition from multiple EU members.
Budapest blocked the circulation of a joint letter outlining the position of all 27 EU member states to the European Council and European Commission, Politico reported on Tuesday, citing two EU diplomats.
Decisions on accession to the bloc require unanimous backing from member states, with Hungary remaining the only country opposed to moving the process forward.
Magyar said Budapest is against opening all six negotiating clusters simultaneously, arguing that the accession process should proceed more cautiously.
“There are six clusters in total, and we don’t think opening them all at once is a good idea,” Magyar told reporters after last week’s European Council meeting in Brussels.Such a move could send “the wrong message” to Western Balkan countries that have spent years pursuing EU membership, he said, referring to Serbia, Albania, Montenegro, and North Macedonia
Magyar has previously said Ukraine’s accession could take ten to 15 years and tied further progressto Kiev’s treatment of the ethnic Hungarian minority. Around 80,000 Hungarians live in Ukraine, mostly in the western Zakarpattia Region, and their status has long strained relations between the two neighbors. The issue was a recurring source of friction under Magyar’s predecessor, Viktor Orban, who repeatedly blocked Kiev’s efforts to move closer to the EU.
Budapest has also maintained its refusal to send weapons to Kiev.
Under Orban, Hungary refused to send weapons to Kiev and protested the forced mobilization of ethnic Hungarians, some of whom hold Hungarian passports, into the Ukrainian military to fight Russia.
Ukraine’s accession bid has also been consistently opposed by Slovakia. Bratislava and Budapest argue that Ukrainian membershipcould draw the EU into an open conflict with Russiaand undermine the bloc’s economy.
Moscow says it does not oppose Ukraine joining the EU, but has criticized what Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov 00described as the bloc’s evolution into an “aggressive military-political alliance” and an “appendage of NATO.”Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has also argued that Ukrainian accession could weaken the EU and potentially destabilize the bloc.
https://www.rt.com/news/642063-hungary-ukraine-eu-bid/
(Zelensky thought he got rid of Orban, but he couldn’t get rid of Hungary.)
M. Caputo background: Caputo worked as a political adviser 4 the DJT campaign Nov. 2015 - June 2016.
because of prior PR work for a subsidiary of Gazprom, he was person of interest and testified in the house and Senate Russia gate investigations of 2017 & 2018
Caputo staunchly denied any collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. He testified that he never had contacts with Russians regarding the campaign and never heard of anyone else on the campaign doing so.
Enter Biden DoJ - without Caputo’s knowledge, the got access to all of his Google account (so they could take a look into Caputo’s “mindset”)
Judicial Watch to the rescue — motion to Unseal “the search warrant materials related to a November 18, 2024…that authorized the seize[ure] of the entire contents of Caputo’s Google account.” https://www.judicialwatch.org/documents/caputo-motion-to-unseal-2315-00098/
Given the above abuse, +
Catherine Herridge’s investigative report (X, 6-22)
04:29 Caputo says he was working in the same DoJ building as DoJ investigation targeting him
06:40 before presidential election, FBI Laid A Trap?
07:58 federal warrant wanted information about Caputo’s state of mind
09:30 FBI should be shattered: ‘Russia, Russia, Russia all over again
12:44 Russia Gate Cost Caputo’s family everything
16:10 Accountability For RussiaGate
Therefore (AI assist on the legal theory)
it does seem that the actions taken against Caputo Do tend to justify Declas as the actions taken against Caputo seem disproportionate (taking his entire Google account - “fishing”) = done in furtherance of the conspiracy hoax idea that Russiagate was real
DoJ case against Caputo was based on the idea that he was acting as a foreign agent for Russia and 18 USC 951 what is used against him.
Therefore, Declas seems justified in order to counter this narrative made against Caputo.
