On Feb. 25, Hungary’s most reliable pollster delivered devastating news to Prime Minister Viktor Orban. Fidesz, the ruling party, was trailing opposition leader Peter Magyar’s Tisza party by 20 points —a seemingly insurmountable deficit only six weeks ahead of the general election on April 12. Orban’s reaction was swift and extensive—and directed not at Magyar, but another political enemy. Almost immediately, he accused Ukraine of plotting an attack on Hungarian energy infrastructure and ramped