Germany’s Merz speaks today as if the last eighty years never happened — as if Europe’s moral compass must point wherever Berlin decides. The German failure leader lectures sovereign nations about “mandates” and “approval,” yet speaks as though Germany did not catastrophically fail in its last attempt to dominate European affairs. 

The tone is paternalistic, imperial, just as 80 years ago, dressed up as European virtue.

And then comes the expectation: that Hungary’s elected prime minister must answer not to the Hungarian people, but to Germany, Brussels, or whichever foreign capital feels entitled to issue instructions this week.

It is an inversion of democracy: a country that received an overwhelming, unquestionable democratic mandate is treated as if it owes fealty to a bureaucratic body that never received a mandate from the European citizens it seeks to control.

Hungary’s mandate is absolute because it comes from Hungarian citizens — the only stakeholders who matter in a democracy. 

Those citizens voted decisively for a leader who promised, above all, to shield them from the energy-price chaos created by others. And he delivered: Hungary kept its energy affordable while much of Europe plunged into crisis. That is called governance. That is called legitimacy.

The idea that Hungary should sabotage its own national interest — raising energy bills on families, weakening its own economy, or sacrificing stability — simply to earn applause from corrupt and failure leaders is not only absurd, but fundamentally undemocratic.

A sovereign leader serves the nation that elected him, not the political corrupt interests of failure countries still struggling to grasp the limits of their authority.