Rubio: It was the right decision to reverse it and why would you want to play a game and win a match and then everyone would argue you didn't really win because the best player was not on the pitch during the match. Maybe we will bring it up at NATO tomorrow
💥👀 Russia risks an "explosive" banking crisis because lenders are shouldering much of the burden of the country's war economy, a European state intelligence report seen by Reuters has warned, as the European Union readies a raft of new sanctions.
The two-page document, which was prepared in recent weeks to inform European officials about the state of Russia's banks, outlines their vulnerability to further Western curbs.
The Economy Ministry cut its gross domestic product growth forecast to 0.4% in 2026 from 1.3% previously and to 1.4% in 2027 from 2.8%.
It also says that more than 500,000 Russians declared bankruptcy in 2025, up almost a third from the previous year, while state programmes encouraged more than 13 million Russians to take out at least three loans simultaneously.
From @TheAthletic: Folarin Balogun was the star of the USMNT’s feel-good World Cup. Now he’s “the unwitting face of the World Cup’s biggest controversy” after FIFA’s “unprecedented decision to essentially rescind Balogun’s suspension.”
https://t.co/23zT8BAbGS
AF Major Jason Watson understood that he was going to face discipline & discharge for his protest in uniform. But what he did wasn’t nearly as bad as Scheller, who only got a $5,000 fine, a discharge, and later REWARDED with a DOD appointment from Hegseth. https://t.co/nkrz78rpyV
Despite the separate Chinese NOTAMs being issued for today’s SLBM test that landed in the Pacific’s nuclear-weapon-free zone, Taiwanese Secretary General of the National Security Council Joseph Wu said that the trajectory of the test launched passed just north of the Philippines’ Luzon Island, calling the move a “provocation.” In addition to the statement, Japan’s Kyodo News has said that the missile did not fly over Japan’s exclusive economic zone or its airspace, which lends some credence to Secretary Wu’s claims that the launch originated in the South China Sea, passing Luzon, and not the Bohai Sea. This post will be updated should additional information come out.
More fake history from President Trump: His claim that George Washington had “two desks” in his office, one for official matters and one for his personal business matters, is false. It was debunked by Washington historians when Trump said it in 2019.
Hours after a massive Russian attack on Kyiv, Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukraine had already succeeded in denying Russia victory on the battlefield and had pushed its fleet from much of the western Black Sea, leaving airspace as the defining theatre. https://t.co/C3aa9sCL8G
Jürgen Klopp on Donald Trump reportedly having called Gianni Infantino to request a review of Folarin Balogun's red card: "If that really was the case, then that's crazy. Let's just say: this is our game, not theirs. These two people, who both have no idea about football, should have nothing to do with that. That was a red card. There's no two ways about it. We're sorry for Balogun because he didn't mean to do it. But that's what the rules say." [@MagentaTV]
WATCH: “He directly pushed for that. There’s no doubt whatsoever Trump is directly involved in these deals.”
As Trump keeps claiming to have no involvement in BILLIONS in deals enriching himself and his family through the presidency, @krystalball exposes it as an obvious lie.
The appeals just keep coming:
France have appealed to FIFA to request Michael Olise’s yellow card against Paraguay is rescinded.
Increasingly feels like FIFA have lost control of their World Cup here.
https://t.co/gGN3ssMkMB