🇪🇺❗️7 of the EU's 27 member countries increased the value of their imports from Russia versus a year earlier, - Reuters

France, for example, saw purchases of Russian energy rise 40% to 2.2 billion euros while the Netherlands jumped 72% to 498 million euros, the analysis shows.

France and the Netherlands are joined by four other countries whose governments support Ukraine in the war: Belgium, which saw a 3% increase, Croatia (55%), Romania (57%) and Portugal (167%).

#Ukraine pays a high price for freedom - our people sacrifice their lives.

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🇪🇺🚫🇭🇺 The European Commission rejected Hungary's request to release €550 million, - Politico.

Brussels will only allocate €163.5 million in advance payments, as discontent with Orbán grows. Even this money could be returned to the EC if it is deemed misused.

At the informal summit in Copenhagen, leaders are discussing a shift from unanimous voting to qualified majority decision-making to override Orbán's veto.

In my lifetime, China has not dared to attack Taiwan.

But in 2022 Putin invaded Ukraine — a war for which the EU countries have reserved a considerable part of their budgets and attention.

Then voters of the US elected an incompetent president who has zero understanding of military strategy; and he now wants to attack Venezuela with the risk of getting the US bogged down in a wider South American war.

If that happens, I fear China moves on Taiwan, knowing they will never get a better chance.

❗️✈️ Ready for a possible missile strike: up to 8 Tu-95 and 2 Tu-160 aircraft, 12 ballistic missiles, approximately 5 MiG-31K.

Also, a threat is possible from 3 missile carriers located at the Novorossiysk base. The Russians have already launched the Shaheds.

There is something beautiful about reading Trump characterize Jimmy Kimmel as an untallented fool with no audience, while Jimmy Kimmel is now at 16,456,944 views on YouTube alone — just 20 hours after publishing — while Trump's UN speech is at 169,000 views after two days.

Jealousy is an incurable disease.

🇺🇦🗣️ Zelensky: Putin is at war. And everyone is trying to stop him with persuasions. That is, everyone is starting to ask him. And force is needed, he understands force. This is his language.

Putin does not speak many languages, but the language of force is absolutely clear to him, just like Russian. And therefore, you need to speak to him in exactly these sentences.

This is the dialect of the kind of person he is. Both the Europeans and the US are taking steps. But more is needed.