The Baltic States Called on the EU to Speed Up the Ban on Russian Oil
Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania at a meeting of EU energy ministers on June 26 called on Brussels to accelerate the adoption of delayed plans for a complete ban on the import of Russian oil. As reported by Financial Times, the Baltic states argue that Moscow's revenues from energy exports directly finance Russia's war in Ukraine.
According to the publication, the European Commission promised to present a corresponding proposal.
The European Union has already significantly reduced its dependence on Russian oil: according to the European Commission, in 2025, imports from Russia accounted for only 2% of the total supply volume, whereas at the beginning of 2022, this figure reached 27%.
The EU also intended to completely abandon Russian gas in 2027, but, as European officials note, the war with Iran froze these plans. The proposal for an oil embargo was supposed to be presented on April 15, but in March, it was removed from the preliminary agenda of the European Commission.
"Ukraine needs ammunition, weapons and vehicles, and it needs them now.
We provide Ukraine with weapons not only for defence, but also to defeat Russia in this war"
- Alexander Stubb
President of Finland
Wow🫡
The President of the United States deployed the National Guard… to stop kids from splashing in the reflecting pool.
Not the troops' fault…they follow orders.
But what the fu*k are we doing here?
𝗗𝗶𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗱𝗲 𝗣𝗩𝗗𝗔 𝘇𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗺𝗮𝘀𝗸𝗲𝗿.
Peter Mertens noemt een kopstuk van het Cubaanse communistische regime “een inspiratie”.
Dat regime is geen romantiek. Het is een dictatuur: politieke gevangenen, geen vrije pers, geen vrije verkiezingen, geen vrijheden tout court.
En vandaag vechten Cubanen zelfs mee aan de zijde van Rusland tegen Oekraïne.
Wie zo’n regime bewierookt, kiest niet de kant van het volk. Die kiest de kant van onderdrukking. Gevaarlijke partij.
het kan simpel zijn.
'bij ons' zou er natuurlijk een vergunning, risico-analyse, een aanbesteding, een beroepsmogelijkheid en wellicht een tussenkomst van de Raad van State nodig zijn, om zoiets na 8 jaar te kunnen installeren.
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Over het muurtje kijken, niet alleen voor Mil
A note to my friends who still back Trump:
I am not here to dunk on you. I am writing because you have a working brain, and this story insults it.
The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool got a $14 million paint job. Shortly thereafter the water turned green and the new “American flag blue” coating started peeling off the bottom in sheets. Trump says vandals did it. He claims, without evidence, that someone took a knife and cut a 300-foot slit, a number that grew to 350 feet while he was still talking.
Back on May 4, Trump bragged about that same coating and said, if you had a knife, you could not even cut it, so strong, like powerful rubber. He cannot have it both ways.
And the green water?
A George Mason scientist tested it and found ordinary, non-toxic algae, the kind that blooms in any shallow sunny pool. To fight it, crews dumped hydrogen peroxide into the water.
Hydrogen peroxide is also a paint stripper.
That, not sabotage or vandalism, is the obvious reason the paint came off. They wrecked their own paint job, then blamed phantom vandals for it.
The lone "vandal" they paraded is a 67-year-old Olympian who touched a flap of paint already peeling on its own.
Here is the thing. If they will look you in the eye and lie about something this small, something you can see with your own eyes, ask yourself what else they are lying to you about.
Again, you have a working brain. People like Karoline Leavitt are counting on you to stay loyal instead of exercising independent thought.
Prove them wrong.
🇰🇷 leger haalt drone-swarms neer met Vulcan Air Defence System (VADS);
hetgeen we ook hadden. We hadden er 55.
Dan hadden we ze niet meer nodig, wellicht omdat 'we' ze te oud vonden.
Waar ze nu terechtgekomen zijn ... the big silence.
BREAKING: National Guard troops threaten to JAIL a Swedish journalist for TOUCHING the Reflecting Pool — all to cover up Trump's botched renovation.
Trump spent over $14 million renovating the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. It immediately turned green with algae and started peeling. Now his administration is deploying NATIONAL GUARD TROOPS to threaten people — including journalists — with JAIL for getting too close.
In footage published by Swedish broadcaster SVT, reporter Stina Blomgren briefly touched the surface of the water while documenting Trump's botched renovation. A National Guard member immediately approached and warned her: "Please refrain from touching the water. That will be the last time you do that — any time after that you will be detained."
Detained. For touching water. At a public monument paid for by taxpayers.
This is the authoritarian playbook in miniature: spend millions on a vanity project, watch it fail spectacularly, then send armed troops to intimidate anyone who dares document the failure.
And the crackdown didn't stop at the Swedish reporter. Former three-time Olympian David Hearn, 67, was arrested and charged with destruction of government property after allegedly reaching into the pool. His actual crime? Curiosity. Hearn told the Washington Post he stopped after a 52-mile bike ride, reached in to feel a piece of the liner that had detached from the bottom of the pool, and was arrested moments later. "I didn't vandalize anything," he said. "By the time I realized what was going on, I was being put in handcuffs."
A 67-year-old Olympian is in handcuffs for touching peeling paint.
Trump, desperate to deflect blame for his failed renovation, took to Truth Social, claiming "vandals" had poured "corrosive chemicals" into the pool and cut a "250-foot long-gash" into it — demanding "Years in jail!"
The real story isn't vandalism. It's a president who botched a multimillion-dollar project, then weaponized the National Guard to silence the people pointing it out — including the free press.
Touch the water, go to jail. Welcome to Trump's America.
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Canada and Greenland never beg either. 🇨🇦🇬🇱
Business goes on as usual for Belgian beer in Russia because Moscow won’t grant permission to disrupt it.
#ABInBev, the multinational ‘blond’ company based in Leuven, Belgium, that continues to embarrass the Belgians and enriches the Kremlin’s war machine.
Corona Extra is being sold at only 69 rubles at "Pyaterochka".
Fuck AB InBev - SPONSORS OF WAR