When Germany blocked sanctions on Turkey while Ankara violated international law, drilled illegally in Greek waters and openly threatened Greece, Jürgen was perfectly comfortable with it.
Now he has suddenly discovered “principles” and lectures Greece.
To put it briefly: Jürgen is a pretentious hypocrite.
Russia earns the full sale price of LNG to the EU — roughly €7.2 billion in 2025. Greek shippers earn only freight fees, typically a small fraction (often ~10% or less) of cargo value. Dynagas, the main Greek player with Yamal charters, reports ~$160M total annual voyage revenues. Russia makes far more.
@marcosagusstinn@grok who makes more €, russia by selling LNG to eu countries -or- greek shippers who transport LNG from russia to eu countries who purchased the LNG?
🇹🇷🇪🇸 A Turkish Air Tractor firefighting aircraft en route to Spain to assist in combating wildfires was forced to make an emergency landing on the Greek island of Samos after encountering strong winds shortly after take-off.
Von der Leyen can thunder about threats to European airspace when it suits a preferred narrative, yet remain shamefully silent while Turkish military aircraft repeatedly violate Greek airspace in the Aegean.
Thousands of violations, overflights, dogfights, with fatal accidents.
🇪🇺Zero response.
Pure selective hypocrisy from a Commission that only defends the borders it finds convenient.
@EU_Commission
A few thoughts on the Greece decision to move forward with a large air defense acquisition:
Greece approves over $3.4B in air defenses for Achilles’ Shield
The deal is expected to include several Israeli systems. The reports mention David's Sling, a system developed by Israel's Rafael as a long to medium-range interceptor with joint US-Israel support.
It is also expected to include Rafael's Spyder air defense system, which would be the shorter range defense system as part of Athens' seeking to build a multi-tiered air defense system similar to Israel's. Israel's includes Iron Dome, David's Sling and Arrow.
According to Globes "The Israeli air defense systems that Greece is procuring includes Rafael's David's Sling in the long range tier, Israel Aerospace Industries Barak MX in the medium range tier, and Rafael's Spyder in the short range tier."
https://t.co/z63TFL8nkV
@ictinus_x With all that Russian gas #spain have imported, Russia should send them a Beriev for free and #Turkey could throw in an AT-802 Fire Boss too. ✈️🔥
🇬🇷🇪🇺Greece is deploying two CL-415 firefighting aircraft to support Spain's battle against major wildfires after responding to a request made through the EU Civil Protection Mechanism.
War is a miserable business. But if at any point it could ever seem fun, this is how I imagine it would look…..
Flying my Yak-52 light aircraft shooting down a Russian Shahed drone over the Black Sea near Odesa.
Morning 🇺🇦
🇪🇺‼️If you are an EU citizen living on Europe’s borders, read the small print before relying on “European security”.
❌Being an EU citizen doesn’t necessarily mean equal protection.
⚠️Always read the small print:
Geographical coverage is limited. Some aggressors are simply too profitable to condemn.
@eucopresident@EU_Commission@EUCouncil
@lupos_lusatiae@txgermanbre@polidemitolog We have everything :) I don't know in Austria where the FPÖ (supported by the Russians) is gaining so much power if you have Russian gas and oil soon.
@vonderleyen When @vonderleyen says “European airspace,” she means Baltic airspace.
Turkish violations of Greek airspace do not count.
She is not defending Europe-she is defending the Baltics.
Yet another "success" for the most incompetent ruling class in European history:
German company Varta—one of Germany’s oldest and most renowned firms specializing in the development and manufacture of batteries—is going bankrupt, 139 years after its founding.
🇪🇺#EUstupidity
@SoljaDalberg@POLITICOEurope Germany treated the EU like its private monarchy: Berlin pushed Nord Stream over the objections of Eastern Europe, positioned itself as the gateway for cheap Russian gas, and allowed 55% of its gas imports to depend on Moscow. When Germany profited, it called it “pragmatism”. 🖕
@SoljaDalberg@POLITICOEurope Germany didn’t “save Greece”; it saved German and French banks exposed to Greek debt, then handed Greeks the austerity bill. A Greek collapse would have shaken the entire eurozone. This isn’t economic analysis, it’s vindictive ignorance dressed up as hindsight.
@marcosagusstinn Spain buys Russian LNG , arms Turkey while it occupies EU territory, and then lectures Greece on “European loyalty.” The bailout was brutal, conditional loans, not a deed of ownership over Greece. Solidarity is not permanent political obedience, and hypocrisy is not principle.🖕