We defeated the attempt to single out & isolate 🇿🇦. The AU has agreed with us. The AU will discuss the migration issue broadly & look at the "Pull & Push" factors. Countries will have to introspect & look at what drives people away. Sending, Transit & Receiving countries must collaborate to find solutions. https://t.co/QlrrN9Gwb4
🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russian President Vladimir Putin says Ukraine will fall apart on multiple regions after the war and some of them will merge with Poland, Hungary and Romania
“In the western part of Ukraine, there are lands that Stalin gifted to Ukraine after World War II. Yes, it was Stalin who gifted those lands to Ukraine.
But he gifted them within the framework of a single state. Apparently, it never occurred to him that a situation like today's could arise.
By the way, I am sure that sooner or later, Ukraine will lose these western lands. What belonged to Poland, Hungary, and Romania will eventually, historically, return to its place.
There was only one guarantor of Ukraine's territorial integrity—and that was Russia. But they found it necessary, possible, and beneficial for themselves to declare Russia their enemy.”
Hegseth: "We didn't start this war. Iran started this war 47 years ago. We didn't start it. They did."
🇮🇷Abbas Araghchi: "Shut up. How many missiles have we fired on US soil in those 47 years? Zero
How many of your leaders were killed or injured by Iran? Zero
The war started when you started bombing us."
MTG: "Lindsey Graham was a neocon warmonger. He was a murderer. He wanted to wipe out many people in Iran, Gaza and Lebanon. He supported war more than anything. He never wanted peace. He was the greatest lobbyist that the military industrial complex could ever have."
Olise’s tackle on Rodri was a dangerous, injury-threatening challenge, yet the referee and VAR ignored it.
If this was Messi’s Argentina, the internet would explode. The outrage is always different
‼️💣 Vicente del Bosque(LEGEND R, Madrid)
"I SAW PELE AND MARADONA PLAY, I FEEL BAD SAYING IT, BUT LEO MESSI IS THE BEST IN HISTORY"
"I WANTED LIONEL TO PLAY FOR SPAIN, BUT WITH HIS LOVE FOR ARGENTINA, IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE"
Thierry Henry on Argentina :
"Argentina are still unbeaten, yet every win comes with the same tired excuse: 'It's rigged.' Nobody wants to give them credit because that would mean accepting what has become obvious. Since Cristiano Ronaldo couldn't win the World Cup, some fans have turned every Argentina victory into a conspiracy instead of appreciating the football. That's not analysis, it's denial."
"Lionel Messi doesn't need anyone's validation anymore. If your first reaction to every Argentina win is 'rigged,' maybe it's because you've run out of football arguments. For me, the GOAT debate is over. It's Messi."
�� Zlatan Ibrahimović slams Rio Ferdinand's VAR comments
🗣️: "I expect emotional fans to complain after every match, that's football. But I never expected someone with Rio Ferdinand's experience to make a statement as foolish as "I've never seen VAR review a yellow card." This isn't even the first time we've seen it. Amiron was sent off after receiving a second yellow for simulation in this same World Cup. The law didn't suddenly change because Argentina were playing.
What surprises me even more is the obsession. Ronaldo fans don't watch Argentina because they support football, they watch every Argentina match hoping to find someone to blame. They don't celebrate their own team; they spend ninety minutes studying Messi, the referee, VAR, FIFA, and every replay, praying for a controversy. If Argentina win comfortably, they say it's rigged. If Messi scores, it's the referee. If he doesn't score, they still find a conspiracy. They lose more sleep over Messi than some Argentina fans do.
At some point, you have to ask yourself: are you supporting Ronaldo, or are you following Messi's career full-time? Because it looks like Messi has millions of unpaid analysts who never miss a single Argentina game. That's not rivalry anymore, that's obsession.
Football is simple. Sometimes referees get decisions right, sometimes they get them wrong. But when the exact same type of decision happens in another match and nobody cares, then suddenly it's the biggest scandal in football because it benefits Argentina, you've stopped looking for the truth. You're just looking for excuses.
Messi doesn't need people to rewrite the rules for him. His football has spoken for over twenty years. If every Argentina victory forces you to invent another conspiracy, maybe the problem isn't Messi. Maybe it's that you're still struggling to accept what the world has already accepted."
‘Lindsey Graham was the public face of the US WAR MACHINE’ — American journalist John Varoli to RT
‘His death won't stop the machine, but it will have to find another spokesperson’
JUST IN: 🇺🇸 UEFA says FIFA crossed a "red line" by allowing US striker Folarin Balogun to avoid a game suspension after receiving a red card in the World Cup.