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From Trump to Hanson, Orwell’s pigs are back

The Australian Financial Review (AFR) •
October 30, 2026 • 03:07 AM
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Animal Farm is here again, but this time there are several leaders who could lay some claim to the starring role of the chief villain, modelled on Stalin.

From Trump to Hanson, Orwell’s pigs are back

This month, US President Donald Trump endorsed earlier calls by Russian President Vladimir Putin for a trilateral summit involving the two of them and Chinese President Xi Jinping. According to Trump, the summit would not be about him and Xi handing over a large chunk of Ukraine to Putin. Fat chance of that.

Putin yearns to regain effective control over swaths of Eastern Europe handed over to Soviet leader Joseph Stalin at the 1943 Yalta conference with then-US president Franklin Roosevelt and UK prime minister Winston Churchill, when the three leaders carved up the rest of the world for the winners of World War II.

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