The headline is the reality of the thing.
In order to make themselves feel better, the European Union is now banning the EU countries from purchasing discounted Russian oil and gas directly. Instead, the EU will force their assembly to purchase Russian oil and gas from India at a premium. The EU is still buying Russian oil and gas; however, paying more, they believe, will work out better for them in the long-term. Go figure.
European Parliament President Roberta Metsola made the announcement via X:
The actual target of this oil and gas ban is the nation of Hungary, who as a landlocked nation is dependent on the gas from Russia. The EU ban expressly hurts the position of Hungary because Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has refused to kneel to the dictates of Brussels.
Prime Minister Orban has vowed to sue the European Parliament over the ban. The lawsuit will likely be supported by other EU countries who understand the stupidity of paying India for what amounts to a brokerage fee to deliver the same oil and gas.
🇺🇸🇪🇺🇷🇺🇮🇳 "We have put 25% tariffs on India for buying Russian oil. Guess what happened last week? Europeans signed a trade deal with India. Russian oil goes into India, the refined products come out, and Europeans buy the refined products."
— U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott… pic.twitter.com/wtoIUwSVlD
— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) January 26, 2026
so, who gets the commission?
asking for a friend! 🙂
The European “Commssion”
Bah-da-bing
The EU “paying more, they believe, will work out better for them”. Them = the EU elite grifters.
“so, who gets the commission?”
Rule Number One: Follow the Money!
Sleepy Joe gets 10%.
Stupid is as stupid does!
And speaking of…
Starmer and his Climate “Change” Czar, close friend of Tony Blair, Ed Miliband have shut down all leases /permits for drilling in the North Sea. A whole profitable industry and those who work(ed) in it cast on the altar of virtue signalling idiocy.
It will instead import from Norway at an estimated cost of £40 billion.
Our eyes have finally rolled out of their sockets.
….and Starmer and 15 of his colleagues are on a plane to Chy-nah as we type.
Undoubtedly with begging bowl in hand so that we can borrow from them to keep buying their windmills and rubbish EVs, instead of opening up our own energy sources again, and our own historic high-quality manufacturing.
U.K. Seems intent on committing uicide by government.
This evening I am unusually depressed.
We in the USA were on that path just a year ago…….I know how you feel.
Thank you, Monti. Appreciated, very much so….
The people who voted the inviro scam artits in are paying the scam price along with those who did not vote the enviro scam artists in.😳
I am, too, Reader, on your behalf.
When I remember Baroness Thatcher especially.
It’s a terrible, terrible thing to watch.
I’m sorry! I hope that you get your beautiful county and culture back.
Suicide by government?? Have the US demorats moved to Europe???
Speaking of Tony Blair; I was shocked to see his name on the Board Of Peace and THEN I see he’s a senior executive right next to Marco Rubio??!!
Blair and Rubio among names on senior executive of Gaza ‘Board of Peace’https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c07xv92vrz2o
If he’s right next to Rubio, Marco can insult Blair at point blank range.
Oh just UGH!!!!!!
What would the EUnuchs do if the big oil companies just went right on drilling & producing? Don’t think they have much in the way of a Navy that could enforce their BS.
They are not stupid. They are lining their pockets at the expense of the citizen.
Nothing new there.
I love Europe. An endless supply of laughs as they struggle to remain relevant in a world that pays them little mind.
As I said on a different thread, EuroTrash Globalists are hilarious!
If they want to burn down their heritage, their history and their culture as they worship false gods, that’s on them. Good luck being slaves to a people who worship a pedophile.
Same as democRats in the USSA, and they them are far from defeated. But rinoRats do supply gallons of Hopium despite Fully Funding the democRats budgets
I feel for them.
It has to be difficult living in such close proximity to other countries, in some cases surrounded by them, when each country has its own ideas and values. It’s no wonder there have been so many wars over the years.
Very thankful to live in the U.S. where we almost get along, have more space, abundant natural resources, are surrounded by water and only a few neighbors.
We are blessed. From whom much is given, much is expected.
If one doesn’t want to be disappointed, one should expect nothing.
It’s tithe to their goddess Gaia.
What do they need gas for, use electricity to heat with,Oh wait, that is right they do not have that either. Now in case we are talking about gasoline,well they can drive their electric cars.
EV’s are great. They should remain a choice
But not the only choice.
For your info,they are not a choice,they are mandated.And when everyone has one what is going to charge it,windmills and solar power ,a pipe dream.
The majority of what is left of the privately owned vehicles in Europe run on diesel fuel. During the Ozero years, the U.S. was buying surplus gasoline from Europe instead of refining more here.
Autonomy…
Dear EU,
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means… 🧐
Hahahaha Alleycats…how very Inigo Montana-sounding.
“Hello !! My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father….Prepare to die.”
Inconceivable.
They’re like an alcoholic that has the choice of wake up, clean up, and go to a meeting – or just open the cupboard & break the seal on another bottle. These clowns are really something. No wonder Meloni feels the need to shower after every group press photo. Go Viktor!
“Right to, LUDICROUS SPEED!”
Witnessing the slow-rolling national / EU economic and societal suicide is both fascinating and horrifying at the same time.
This doesn’t make sense for Europe, but then it makes no sense whatsoever for Europe to be at war with Russia. Who is pulling the strings behind the scenes?
I think they actually made this particular one up on their own. It’s that stupid.
The EU bolsheviks are trying to impoverish the people…. while printing their own paychecks/salaries.
EngSoc has always been at war with EastAsia.
Oh, “The Mother of all Deals”. Um hum. Good grief.
Optics over Antics.
I’d buy my drugs directly from Columbia, but I prefer to buy American, so I’ll pay more to that guy hanging out on the street outside my Brownstone.
Where does he get the drugs? Shhhhhh…..
Good grief, you just can’t fix stupid. Are the Euro’s that stupid that they think they are fooling anyone.? No need to answer. It’s all about pretending with these globalists. They deserve to go down the s-can. I hope Hungry fights this, Orban knows it’s just a clown show.
And two liberal white women sit and sign the chains that bind them into law.
How do you increase your control over your energy supply by banning something? If you have nothing, then you have complete control over it?…………………
So let me get this strait.
Russian gas is a violation of European values when it enters through Hungary, but it’s diversified energy when it arrives via India
Sounds like they have finally solved the energy crisis by replacing cheap Russian gas with expensive Russian gas.
Or we sure we want to partner with them on Greenland?
“We are buying it from Russia; but, we are just not buying it from Russia.”
Okie dokie.
They just aren’t learing much, are they?
Are they CAPABLE of learning anything?
Learing;fixed 🙂
I am very happy for India Oil Brokers and IT graduates
Why do any of these countries put up with this nonsense at this point? If they don’t like their trans-continental HOA, why don’t they do something about it? What is Brussels really going to do to any of them?
They took their guns away.
Get some.
They can afford to pay India a premium for the same Russian energy, but they can’t afford to defend themselves, or Greenland, except with a token Potemkin gesture. No, the US is expected to defend them and the US is expected to do it for free! And, of course POTUS is evil, because he insists that they pull their own weight for a change.
We helped them to rebuild after WWII and we were happy to do it. But, at some point they need to put their big girl panties on and act like adults.
These people are remarkably delusional in their policies and priorities!
Maybe DJT should offer the EU oil and gas from Venezuela that is slightly cheaper than from India with the USA commission included of course. This would allow the EU to really, really claim independence from Russia.
Or a soon to be secular Iran!
Arrogance breeds stupidity… on full display and creating the very opposite of strengthening their autonomy.
This smacks of tyranny, not diplomacy
Only the stupid are arrogant
Looks like that man standing on the right is laughing. As he should be.
And the man on the left looks dumbfounded. Or just dumb.
Please pardon me for not knowing who these clowns are. I really don’t care.
They will just raise taxes and vote themselves a raise. It’s what communists do. See Virginia.
The aristocrats will just shift all the new taxes onto the voiceless peasants, just like they always did before the French Revolution. It worked marvelously for the aristocrats… until it didn’t.
No oil or has?
Let them eat cake.
Yeah right.
They’re going to flood their nations with Indian and Chinese foreign workers to replace their own citizens (in addition to the Muslim and African straight-to-welfare foreign imports that continue to stream in unabated); engage in mass offshoring of EU jobs and outsourcing of EU work to foreign firms; and raise energy prices further for their own citizens after they messed up energy badly. EU leadership gets an F-. I wonder if the citizens of these countries will remove the scales from their eyes or simply continue to vote for their replacement and the downfall of Western Civilization.
P.S. Spain just made 500,000 foreign aliens legal. I suppose it’s Stockholm Syndrome or something, the need for the victim to relive the abuse of their days under the boot of the Islamic caliphate.
El Cid rises from the grave in disgust to cast a pox on all the pusillanimous ninnies and traitors in Spain who have done this to the nation, which he defended AGAINST ISLAM!
Charleton Heston is rolling in his grave, too. 😉😁
They need a 1492 deportation.
Never gets old about EU. Almost like it’s not just stupidity.
Lol, that’s about it.
Don’t they understand this will increase their carbon footprint?
Their men are light in the loafers so it all balances out.
I suppose there are carbon credits available.
Someone must have lots of these looking to offload before Green Scam goes away.
Let’s see….
EU can sell these to India and get their 25% back.
Kinda like China is doing with Canada only CCP actually is making money.
I think John Kerry
Is hiding somewhere in the mix.
I weep for Europe. I weep for all those there that have and still are trying to fight this madness. I weep because i remember how close we came to that precipice ourselves.
Proof that rural America inbreeding claims are no where near the reality of the European inbreeding that is real. The stupid gets worse with every generation.
Next up for Europe: muslim inbreeding.
Artifice
Artificial
Mis representation.
Artificial means always end, it’s a fact.
Predict breakup of EU if President Trump is followed by Vance.
Once President Trump took away the EU credit card they face change or failure.
It’s sickening to think that our $39 trillion debt has here at home to show for it.
The debt was all offshored:
UK bankers
aka Federal Reserve
EU
NATO
UN
WHO
WTO
Loan guarantees (written off)
USAID
Fraud
Fraud
Fraud
Did I mention fraud?
Yes, the whole wide world benefited on the back of productive free America. Instead of emulating us trade became a parasitic attempt to kill the golden goose of freedom.
One day perhaps the Marshall Plan will be seen as one of the largest mistakes in US history. Only Japan took the high road, the rest used the US to implement socialism which is a parasite that must have a host to draw from.
“We are creating a market of two billion people,” said von der Leyen as the deal was announced. Even the Canadian press is calling the EU-India agreement, “The mother of all deals.”
They pretend not to know that the average annual income in India is $2,650. In terms of annual income around the world, India falls near the bottom third, between the nations of Bangladesh and Cambodia. That doesn’t sound like a very profitable consumer market to me.
‘The mother of all deals’: EU and India strike landmark agreement amid U.S. tariffs | CBC News
“It is to laugh!” 🙂 🙂 🙂
Sure, 2 billion people feeding off trash heaps in dumps, e.g. Brazil, India, too many countries in Africa, etc. That is some market!
I can see the low caste people of India needing French wine, German Christmas cookies, Italian pasta, Swedish meatballs, Dutch chocolate, and all sort of other goodies from the EU nations. These nations may not make much in the way of machinery or have much manufacturing but they still will have home cooks selling their specialty foods to the poverty stricken people in the lower castes in India.////
The LORD GOD, HIMSELF, will have the last say.
May HE BLESS Prime Minister Orban!
In JESUS NAME!
AMEN & AMEN
Ahh, the “Biting off one’s nose to spite their face” move. Yeah, that always works, Moron EU!
Satan, when tempting Jesus, always took scripture and twisted it just a little bit so that it almost sounded true.
These people have level 10 incurable cut off nose to spite face disease.
Just imagine the growth of their administrative state to implement this “Mother Of All Deals”.
So they’ve got the deal, the jobs program and the expansion of government- no wonder they are giddy.
Bet your bottom dollar someone in the EU among those who made that decision will get kickbacks from the third party money. If I were the leader of the other countries in the EU I would refuse to follow that.
Hungary,Polans,Ausstria and Slovakia should leave the EU.it is dieing anyway.
Yes, a breakup is what is needed.
And Czechia.
Apparently, affordability is not a big issue in the EU. s/
Sounds like the exact extortion scheme Jack Smith was involved in
As much as I want to laugh at them, it’s not much different than what we do. We don’t want to buy Chinese junk with tariffs. So we just pay the snow mexicans to put the Chinese junk together and buy it from them.
I know it’s not a perfect comparison, just highlighting the point that there’s no shortage of stupid economics going around these days.
Wait until USMCA is terminated this summer. PDJT already said yesterday that he is not going to allow Canada to be a pass through nation for China to get their junk into the USA.
The point is to fine Hungary for having peaceful and prosperous relations with Russia when these War Pigs want to Keep War Alive.
They need a Russian Enemy to stay out of jail and satiate their wicked ownership.
of course india is required to pass a portion of the proceeds to the political elite, unofficially referred to as the ‘grift fee’
How is this any different than what California does?
Winners: India & Russia
Losers: EU, particularly Hungary
Trump mocks NATO allies for ‘funding the war against themselves’ with Russian energy purchasesHungary, Slovakia, France, Belgium and Spain remain Europe’s top importers of Russian energy products
https://www.foxnews.com/world/trump-mocks-nato-allies-funding-war-against-themselves-russian-energy-purchases
We borrow from Europe to defend Europe. We borrow from the Gulf states to defend the Gulf states. We borrow from Japan to defend Japan. Is it not a symptom of senility to be borrowing from the world so we can defend the world?
— Suicide of a Superpower-Pat Buchanan
Is Biden running the EU???
Is Yelen running the EU???
Has the Covid Vax and boosters interrupted the synapses of these “leaders”?
My 14 YO grandkid has more sense.
Lord, these people are Stoopid.
Maybe the 25% tariff on India should include any product “or service” that they export to the US. Assess a 25% tariff on the wages on all the outsourced jobs.