Defying threats from the European Union, Hungary has announced they will not stop purchasing oil and gas from Russia and join a blockade of energy products by the 27 member EU alliance.
BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungary will not support sanctions that would make Russian oil and gas shipments to Hungary impossible, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said in a statement on Tuesday.
Speaking in Kazakhstan, Szijjarto said Russian oil shipments via the Druzhba pipeline accounted for about 65% of the oil Hungary needed and there were no alternative supply routes that could replace that. (link)
Slovakia has also announced they will not participate, which makes any collective EU action problematic. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is reported to be using his connection to the U.S. and Joe Biden in an effort to force the EU to deliver additional sanctions. Essentially, if an EU country does not fall in line, Zelenskyy will instruct Biden not to support that EU country with the money congress is preparing to use as blackmail.
The polish government has collapsed under the pressure of Joe Biden and the NATO alliance. However, if you look closely at the $33 billion spending demand from the White House, it’s clear to see the U.S. State Dept, specifically those who are currently operating the proxy war along with the CIA, are positioning the funds for use as bribes to EU allies.
Any deal on Russian oil would require the consent of all 27 EU members, meaning it could not pass without Hungary and Slovakia’s approval. The bloc agreed on an embargo on Russian coal in the fifth package last month, while it has not yet ventured into gas.
[…] Ministers from other EU states have spoken of sympathising with oil-reliant neighbours but urged unity during the crisis. Hungary and its Russia-friendly leader Viktor Orban have irked Ukraine with an equivocal stance on the war. (more)
Wasn’t she Miss Lube Queen or something like before politics?
Now that’s funny stuff right there!!!!
It says a lot that her t-shirt is much lower than his is, and that his isn’t covered with a shirt and tie. the flaunting of indignity: clowns here, clowns there, clowns everywhere ….
I’m sure it was casual Friday.
Yes. Nancy Delessandra was Miss Lube something in 1950 something. Her Uncle and her father were both mayors of Baltimore with Mafia Connections of course. She is 80+ years old.
Mobsters then, mobsters now.
What can I say other than I’m a descendent of a successful businessman from Italy that was known in the East Baltimore area as a force not to be messed with …
Why won’t these (old) people get off the stage already! Too much money to pilfer and there’s a country or two they must destroy before they are comfortable dying! No wonder they don’t care about the future — they won’t be around to see the destruction of civilization.
Yes I remember.
Their first lube shop was on Gay Street in Baltimore
Rumor was that she was Miss Lube Rack 1955
http://www.federalobserver.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/msss_lube_rack.jpeg
But the photo is actually from 1951 and it isn’t Pelosi, who would have been all of 11 years old at that time.
Ref. https://www.truthorfiction.com/miss-lube-rack-1951-05012013/
Now she is Miss Cosmetic Surgery Queen. I’d hate to see what’s underneath.
Dust
Miss Botox,and as smart of an ox.
Miss Ballitmore when she was young.
No she was Daddy’s little Mafia whore!
Daddy started introducing her, the little Democrat cutie, to his world when she was age nine.
Pelosi was “Miss Lube Rack” in 1959.
LOL….Good One
And he’s employee of the month in his shop clothes.
YEP…MISS LUBE QUEEN at it again…just lubbin’ the hands for the payola that is coming!!!
Wondering how much she will pocket indirectly?
Nana looks like she needs another blow-out.
I was thinking she looks better with a mask. However I tho’t that all along. All the old farts in The Swamp wanted them to make us forget how fricking old and ugly they are.
I’ve always thought she looked like she was wearing a pair of Schumers underwear on her face.
Maybe she WAS. The real question is,..is it cause she LOST a bet with Schumer,….or cause she WON?
Coal already embargoed. Everybody has to embargo oil now. But the rest of the EU can take months to ween ourselves from Russian gas.
How dare you not accept the pain and misery we have designated is your lot while we don’t have to suffer at all.
Lefty psyop strategy has to have a boogie man, fear-porn star to focus their useful idiots’ free floating anger/hatred on. The rest of the narrative all “circles back” to that. Used to be Trump. Now it’s Putin.
Thing is, it is the “leaders” that get the bribe, it is THE PEOPLE that have to do without.
However will they jet to Davos, or anywhere else, without jet fuel, aka really clean kerosene?
the artificial energy starvation shortage is only for a little while – pinkie promise…
D*mn.
Pelosi looks So. Owned. in that photo.
The octogenarian political set remind me of ghouls or demons-part of me thinks they are possessed in a way. A lot of evil coursing through our “leadership”
Why anyone would join up w/ those whacko Western European countries is beyond me.
It just seems suicidal in the long run.
Suicide is that inside the 33bil package includes giving the state dept the authority to grant 100,000 Taliban “parole” status to migrate to the us.
Granting them legal permanent residence in America after 20yrs of fighting.
What could go wrong?
We just allowed plane loads of them into this country disguised as refugees while a fat bag of money was given to them.
Real President Trump destroyed Obama’s personal ISIL army overseas, so Obama imported a new one.
Whenever I see her I think of Dixie Wexworth and Cabana Chat skits from MadTv.
Having Piglosis in any way representing the US abroad is as bad as the Demented Fraud or the Cackling Ho representing the US. The pieces of human garbage are an absolute disgrace. The only reason someone like the Zee phony smiles and acts happy to be around the sow is because of the large cut of corrupt cash he’s personally banking from these fraud’s theft of US tax payer money we don’t have
This coming weekend the infamous Doctor Jill will be going to Poland to visit with Covid-unemployed Ukrainian workers and peasants who were sent there by Zelenskyy & the UN. They had been scared to death by a frenzied fake news media that kept warning of some impending nationwide invasion that never happened.
She has to go abroad to deal out the $33B. Phone, email, text, message is all spied upon. Bribes and kickbacks were her diplomatic mission.
Hillary logged far more air miles, than ANY previous SoS, for the same REASON;
There are SOME conversations you HAVE to have, face to face after the room has been swept for bugs.
And when I see Zelensky I see Ricky Gervais character David Brent from The Office UK version.
And ware some decent clothes and stop thinking you are Bill Belichek
Those are clothes from the 1957 G.U.M store in Moskva – they were high fashion back then for the Nomenklatura.
Don’t get mad at it me because I won’t commit suicide, with you!!
Oh stop the drama. Just let them go first.
All too predictable. Keep strong Orban. Here is a link to a fantastic conversation. Here is Andrei Martyanov with Gonzalo Lira and The Duran. It is 2 hours + but well worth your time. I promise you Smoothie (Andrei) knows what’s up. If you can’t watch the whole thing there’s 2 parts that really stick out. 30min mark and 1hr30min mark. I came away felling somewhat better based on Smoothie’s assessment. He’s a dandy. Here is Smoothie’s blogspot http://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/
So Gonzalo is alive?
Yes. Go to theduran on Rumble. They have him on some of their podcasts.
I’m still not trusting of his whole recent disappearance for a week, but he is alive.
Yes he is……and Smoothie (who I have never listened to) will break things down. I can tell by the man’s confidence he’s not a piker and it’s not a psy ops. He describes who we must face within our own walls. They are academics/theorists. No real world experience and that is probably not good. Gonzalo exclaims I think around 1hr 30min about being terrified these fools will do something crazy. He’s not alone. We must pray for the best and prepare the best we can. We’re all in this together.
As I have stated in other comments it doesn’t seem to me the Brandon admin cares a whole helluva lot about gaining votes. That’s just the feeling I get watching the installed admin do stupid after stupid. Let’s face it, only a very small handful of lefties are going to like the thought of dishing $33bil to Ukraine for a war. Especially as prices continue to climb. That’s a lot of money; yet they don’t even hold back on their intentions (Rinos too). Something isn’t right.
Many things aren’t right. JMO but I think Soros is pushing this war. He is a Nazi after all and likely thinks Putin is soft.
Soros doesn’t have to push too hard. Our Congress is picking the Pockets of Ukraine too.
If you listen to the leader of the WEF he sounds like he was just plucked from Berlin during Hitlers reign
By “leader of the WEF” I assume you mean Klause Schwab?
He ALSO looks like he is out of Central Casting.
And, his bio doesn’t adequately explain how he got to where he is.
I suspect he is a “front”; a public face for others who CAN’T be seen, publically doing what he is doing,..
Piercing that vail might be worthwhile, finding out who is REALLY behind the WEF?
Geopolitical history dictates that whoever owns the Heartland, and the Rimland, rule the world! Russia and China being both. Chinese kids aren’t going to school in hazmat suits for nothing!
I listened to the podcast last night.
The Russian Colonel has some pretty scary insights about our military commanders and weaponry vs theirs. Some here might disagree because they have seen things not privy to the general public. But if you look through the lens of the current Ukraine reporting by the msm, and then read other sites like thesaker or listen to the podcasts by theduran his take becomes pretty sobering.
The war, if there ever was such a thing, is clearly over. Zelenskyy has been holding Open House for weeks for anyone who wants to come and get a piece, as long as they pay the price. The U.S. is setting up house there.
I have zero sympathy for this man or his interests, which are clearly not the same as his people’s interests. Like U.S. citizens, we and they are dispensable.
Orban takin’ names and kickin’ a>>>>>
Leadership on full display.
Today Kitco shows the exchange rate of Russian Rubles to USD of 68.25 rubles for 1 US dollar. Back on April 8 it was 80.25 rubles for 1 US dollar.
Thinking Hungary’s leader is of the mind of Make Hungary Great Again!
Zero Hedge has an article today on Russia getting ready to go onto a gold standard, posing the question if China will be next.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/russia-returning-gold-standard-china-next
@Bessie…..maybe Trump showed these BRICS nations the way to fight back against Globohomo. I know it will not be pretty for us but let’s face it we have a lot to contend with in the days ahead.
My understanding is that the Hungarians were wise, and previous to this “ Special Military Operation “ as the Russians call it agreed to a very favourable gas contract with the Russians.
I am all in for the Russians..
Pelosi, Biden, Romney, Schumer, McConnell. are for the Ukrainians 🤮
Me, too,…Rootin for Putin because the enemy of my enemy is my ally.
CTH readers are so far “ahead of the curve”
Putin’s speech on May 9 will open a few eyes.
Cheers!
I wish the Hagfish had stayed in UKraine, Putin should have slung some bombs like he did when the UN hack was there. I want these people busted so badly I can’t stand it.
Kudos to Hungary for Standing Tall.
Why is it that anything, no matter how awful that goes against the EU makes me giggle.
Russia should probably cut off gas supplies to most of Europe until Russian frozen assets are returned and, of course, payment in Rubles is established.
Upon hearing what Hungary had done, Volodymyr Zelenskyy went into a rage, muster up all his strength, drove his right foot so far into the ground that it sank up to his waist, and then in a passion he seized his left foot with both hands and tore himself in two.
So, no peace talks???
Maxie: Peace doesn’t pay the bills.
Its all planned. Peace was never on the table. “Build back better” is their game, and now comes the real destruction. I hope Putin annihilates them all. Anyone in the US military partaking of this will get zero respect from me.
Hungary is not stupid. The food and inflation. Squeeze is going to cripple Europe so why to the pain just because the corrupt Americsn government wants to keep the war going under the belief it will topple Putin and protect the money laundering. Bravo Hungary and Slovakia.
This!!
Not to mention islam.
Recall it was Hungary, under Orban, that bucked the EU, built a fence (actually a double fence with a nomans land between) in order to keep illegal migrants from transiting across their country, to get to Western Europe.
Zelenskyy is a puppet operated by our state department. He is not using his connections to the US to get his way, the state department is using him to get its way.
Well said. The department wants to prolong a war the Ukraine has already lost. All I see is Russian gains expanding in the east and south with no credible counter by the Ukraine and the billions of dollars we ve thrown at the corrupt bastard.
The Military-Industrial- Complex bought legislators as most are coin-operated.
Zelenskyy, is a dead man walking.
Would that it were so, but even more, those who own him.
I think Orban was very favorable towards President Trump (during PDJT’s term) and appeared to have far more courage than many of his peers in the EU. So this stance is not surprising. I wouldn’t be surprised if he “channeled” a bit of DJT when making that decision.
Hungary’s leader is thinking about his own people’s needs, the country’s needs, rather than sacrificing them for Ukraine as our own leaders have done to the American people.
May 1, 2022 Speaker Pelosi meets Zelenskyy in unannounced visit to Kyiv
ABC News Senior Foreign Correspondent Ian Pannell reports on the Russian invasion of Ukraine on “This Week.”
Ukraine is the key to unlocking massive corruption involving US politicians!
Only wished some looters carrying Louis Vitton were caught photo bombing the photo op.
In addition Kerry’s daughter is married to a rich Iranian Sheik or someone with a title.
The real biden kleptocracy.
Easy for you to say 🙂
And by “ENERGY COMPANIES” it means Oil and Natural gas, and yet their parents are constantly screaming about “greenhouse gas emissions”, Climate Change, etc.
Did they not educate their kids,..how the World is going to END in like 12 years, if we don’t drastically curtail the use of petroleum?
Meanwhile, back in the good ol’ US of A…I have been meditating upon our inflationary problems, mostly energy costs.
Covid has caused a lot of people to stay home and not work. And many are still not working, essentially “unemployed” but getting money from the covid slush funds rather than unemployment funds.
Typically, as in the Obama years, there were/are massive layoffs and unemployment around DNC regimes?
Now, not so much, in fact we are told there are many jobs “not filled” while costs of living for food, rent, utilities have massively gone up.
I am wondering if the ‘transitory inflation’ is the ‘unemployment’ replacement? While the high cost of gasoline, electricity and natural gas keeps the tree huggers, content and willing to ‘suffer’ the high costs for the regime schemes.
My own costs, while being stingy with my utilities, have doubled.
Inflation can be blamed on any number of causes with boogeymen, while unemployment is always blamed on the companies engaging in lay offs (translation–federal salary grants have dried up).
Money will not heat homes in the Winter.
Or have a working stove to cook meals.
Hungary is looking after the welfare of citizens on this.
Any country who does what Hungary is…. are justified.
The other countries who decide to play the EU games…..not going to end well when their citizens are freezing…..
Leftist government parasitic bags of shit cannot stand the Hungarian elected officials because they actually work in the best interests of the Hungarian citizens .
Something the western allied muckrakers tossed overboard decades ago !
I hope Putin executes the MF and then takes out Biden!
I often wonder if statements like that are real, or placed there by trolls to make CTH look like a bunch of extremists.
Either way, it is not good.
Is that a ball gag around her neck?
Nah, just a ludicrous bunch of baubles that probably cost the taxpayers a few grand.
Isn’t it Germany still buying oil from russia ? Why not start there?
Best news of my day is that Hungary and Slovakia are nixing this BS agenda. Why exactly would you deprive your people of fuel for heat, power, etc. just to support the agenda of the never ending money grubbers from the US?
The brown Tshirt and hoodie worn by Zelensky, while meeting with Pelosi says, and means more to me than I can describe. Its unbelievable that this ahole is taking a picture with a “dignitary” from the US wearing such attire. Utterly appalling to humans who have any memory left of the intentions of Hitler to kill off anyone who wasn’t blond and pure.
Oh sure, you can watch the “Sound of Music” movie.
But this movie takes the cake for me. The trailer does NOT do this movie justice. Revenge may be a sin. But I don’t care at this point in my life.
Inglorious Bastards
The first part of this movie chilled me to the bones of my spirit. Am so grateful that humans are recognizing EVIL as it unfolds. Sunlight will ALWAYS BE THE BEST MEDICINE. Thank you Sundance and fellow treepers.
Great movie! I loved the Jewish- American soldiers knocking off Nazis. The basement bar scene was spectacular with the Gestapo Officer playing cat and mouse. Ordering the Scotch gave the Brit away!
Then why are they not ‘furious’ at Germany, and all the others also still buying Russian gas?
Shhh! The Ministry of DisInformation won’t be liking you bringing that inconvenient thing up.
🙂
Go Hungary!
It would be nice if one of our America First politicians could put things in simple language, as Sundance does so eloquently, to see what these monsters are doing with our tax money. This is nothing less than bribes and money-laundering to more corrupt entities serving larger corrupt entities ad infinitum. If they could just link their actions over there to the impact it has over HERE to one’s daily cost of living, perhaps we could generate a powerful force of opposition and visible protests
Nice picture considering the circumstances. You can really tell there’s a war going on.
Hungary is being stupid. Their gas supply from Russia comes from two pipelines, one via Bulgaria which the Russians have closed to punish Bulgaria, and another via Ukraine. I suspect Zelenskyy can close that one any time he wants.
Why wasn’t there an outrage when Ukraine was bombing/killing Russian civilians in the Donbass region since 2014? The Azov Battalion is an offshoot of Nazism and nobody raises an eyebrow?
^^^^
EU is quite a force,not, they are like Kev and Mitch trying to whip a vote together.
More BS theater. It would be more interesting if Stoli Pelosi brought along James Taylor to sing, ”You Have a Friend.”
Zelensky is our enemy, not our friend; he’s helping the Evil Empire and the $oros/NATO Axis Powers drag the world into Permanent War for money and power. These JT songs are a much better fit:
Sing a song for the Wrong
And the Wicked and the Strong
And the Sick, as thick as thieves
For the faceless fear that was never so near
Too clear to misbelieve
Well the sea is jumping salty
And the porpoise has the blues
My recollection’s faulty
And I cannot find my shoes
And my wiring is misfiring
Due to cigarettes and booze
I’m behind in my dues
I just now got the news
He seems to tell us lies
And still we will believe him
Then together he will lead us
Into darkness, my friends
REFRAIN:
Let it fall down, let it fall down
Let it all fall down
Let it fall down, let it fall down
Let it all fall down
The man says stand to one side, son
We got to keep this big ball rolling
It’s just a question of controlling
For whom the bell is tolling
REFRAIN
There’ll be suffering and starvation
In the streets young man
Just where have you been, old man
Just look out of your window, man
REFRAIN
Well, it ain’t nobody’s fault but our own
Still, at least we might could show the good sense
To know when we’ve been wrong
And it’s already taken too long
So we bring it to a stop
Then we take it from the top
We let it settle on down softly
Like your gently falling snow
Or let it tumble down and topple
Like the temple long ago…
Let it all fall down
……………..
(Spoken) When are people are going to see that nothing ain’t never going to change until somebody finally makes up his mind and stands up and fights? Damn!
Lonely hearted hunter don’t say nothing
The hungry and the hurt got only one law
Never mind your words
Unseen, unheard, unsung, undone
Ain’t but one place left to run
Stand up now now, stand and fight
Stand up, stand and fight
Undercover creature that don’t see sunshine
Make it in the dark, don’t think twice
Never mind making nice
Black eyes, black sights, black magical rites tonight
There comes a time, babe
To stand and fight, stand up, stand and fight
Stand up, stand and fight
Don’t you worry about me little darling
No, I ain’t breaking
I’m shaking and aching
Because I can’t stand waiting
There comes a time to stand and fight
Maximum destruction
Blood red deadheads
Tearing it up, wearing it down
Never mind my name
I’m unclaimed, unnamed and unashamed
I’d like to say
Fan the flames, stand and
To stand up, stand and fight whoa
Stand up, stand and fight, look out
You ain’t doing nobody no kind of favors (stand up, stand and fight)
Lying around like a rug on the floor (stand up, stand and fight)
Sooner or later you’ve got to stand up (stand up, stand and fight)
And say you won’t take it any more (stand up, stand and fight)
Stand up, stand and fight
Stand up, stand and fight, no no no
Stand up, stand and fight, no no no
Stand up, stand and fight, whoa
The last time now: Stand up, stand and fight…
Fixed it for you, James.
The EU was pissed Orban won reelection, so “what does he have to lose”,…that they are MORE pissed, NOW?
And, he obviously DOESN’T CARE.
What Hungary and Slovenia are doing, is kinda like asserting States rights, aka “Federalism”, although I’m not sure what the EU Constitution, or whatever the equivalent is, says in that regard.
Obviously, for many years the Idiots In Charge have been using Uncle Sugars $, to exert influence, bribes to do as they say, or withholding bribes, and even funding “Color revolutions” if any country refuses.
Its the classic (real, not Godfather version) of ‘making them an offer they can’t refuse’; a ‘carrot and stick’ approach.
And Congress and the State Dept have been doling out the cash,..
Actually, there may well be OTHER countries in the EU, that are quite happy that Hungary and Slovenia are blocking this, as this way, they get the U.S. $, but don’t have to sacrifice by not getting the oil.
Mr. Zed is running our Country.
Hungary = WINNER!
Now the Russians have turned the tables and will not sell to unfriendly countries, so there! The EU pretends it is punishing Russia, as if Russia has no other customers!!!!!
And Hungarians will be warm this winter, and Euro-dopes will be up shit creek.
Like it or not, Russia is holding Europe very firmly by the balls: they don’t have an equivalent source of energy and they cannot live life without it. One also wonders how much longer the United States and its “trillions and trillions” of purely manufactured US Dollars will continue to hold magical sway. You would think that by now the rest of the world had realized that the USA is just pulling the things out of its own ass … 🤡 … How can something be “valuable” to others when it costs nothing to you?
Russia pays Ukraine billions to transfer oil thru the pipelines that run thru their country to the rest of Europe.
That means Ukraine is accepting billions from Russia to transfer oil thru the pipelines that run thru their country –
RIGHT NOW – TODAY!
Now Z is telling Biden what to do?
Blackmail or Financial Planning for the Biden Cabal?
The largest salt producing nation 😀
Her brain could use a lube job
Excellent choice in wording, Zelensky will instruct Biden to send the money or else.
Seems to me Zelensky is also an employee of Biden’s Deep State/Globalist owners.
He was elected to make peace, but sold out Ukrainians to the GloboBlob.
If he tried to seriously blackmail Biden, our False Flag Government would simply assassinate him and blame it on Russia.
String a couple of bits of information together.
Looking at the map provided in the article, the Light Blue Shaded Nations are:
Switzerland: neutral ground and HQ’s of the UN Executives, G7+WEF and Globalist Financier Corporate HQ.
Austria: EU member to some level, not sure of their stance on Russia
Serbia: Not EU or NATO
Bosnia: Not EU or NATO
Montenegro: Not EU or NATO
Moldova: Not EU or NATO but Coveted territory of EU member Romania
The stance v/v Russia for any of those listed above, except “neutral” Switzerland, is not very well known nor discussed.
Then there is
Sweden: EU but not NATO
Finland: EU but not NATO
Who are critical of Russia and want to join NATO.
While Belarus remains a Russian Satellite for now.
There were articles last week that trashed NATO and discussed the EU Parliament advancing the legislation to establish the EU Military Alliance. The establishment of the EU Military has been a serious topic for at least the past 6 years and likely been in planning stages at least that long.
The current US Government (Executive Branch and UNI-PARTY Congress) has “declared and demonstrated” their willingness to resist Russia with allot of Cash and troops OUTSIDE the structure of NATO. The current NATO charter, as written is far to focused and encumbering making a rewrite a public mess. So, NATO is on the way out to be replaced by …. those “ever so clever EU States //s” plan to assume control of Physical NATO C4I Assets to establish the EU Defense Treaty funded partially by the US and extend membership to Moldova and Ukraine. Sweden and Norway become defacto members via their membership in the EU.
An interesting note, NATO member Turkey’s application has been denied for EEC and/or EU membership since the 1980’s when Turkey still had a reasonable secular Government, and a Military with a CONSTITUTIONAL DUTY to keep it that way. Don’t look for Turkey to be admitted any time soon. The denial of that application played a large role in the rise of Islamic Leaning President for Life Recep Erdogan.
Watch Serbia, Montenegro, Moldova and Bosnia join the BRICS and have Russian protection and peace treaties.
Come on man 🤪
The real story here is the Hungarian elected government telling the rest of the leftist WEF/NWO agenda driven elitist political hacks to shove it !
They were elected to serve in the best interest of the Nation of Hungry and the Hungarian citizens .
Wow what a concept in representative government !
Perhaps the US politicians could try actually working for the good of the country and American Citizens !
I know dream on …
Forget Me Not
“Zelinskyy will instruct Biden”
I can’t believe I just read that sentence.
This will only help Hungary if Putin takes all of Ukraine. How will he get energy across Ukraine to Hungary? After spending two and a half years of my young adult life in West Germany, keeping the Russkies at bay, only to see this now, it’s enough to make a grown man cry. I’m all out of tears. All I’ve got is lead. Copper jacketed lead.
People in Europe must be wondering how are they gonna keep Washington at bay, it’s empire building is out of control now.
That’s the truth. All the warmongers in D.C. are orgasmic over the notion of taking on Russia. Of course, they or their children won’t be on the front lines. Max Boot, Graham, and the rest are some pretty tough armchair warriors.
chickenhawks to a man and woman.
doesn’t sound like it. why would the eu be trying so hard to convince him otherwise? keeping the russkies at bay were you? let’s see how the grieving period for the death of the petrodollar goes before you decide you are all out of tears.