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
They need to start fracking in their own countries.
They won’t, because they are on a mission from Gaia to save the planet, but its what they should do.
We need to come to the reality that they are too stupid to live and distance ourselves as much as possible.
Hard to believe Americans share heritage with these dipshits
You realize this is comedy, right? Very biting comedy at that.
Really? I was unaware. 🙄
Its fallen to the level of skit, but they really are serious. They have an image of themselves that simply does not reflect reality. They need to be cut down to size unfortunately.
Not a documentary???
That’s why my ancestors came here in the 1600’s and 1700’s, to get away from those Dick weeds…
Just look at the dems today – six of one, half dozen of another
EU stupidity of buying Russian oil from India is ALMOST as stupid as signing on to 70 years of paying to rebuild Europe from Europe’s wars (The Marshall Plan) after they dragged us into not one but TWO world wars, then paying Europe high tariffs and VAT on our exports to Europe while charging nothing for them to import stuff to the USA, then paying trillions$$ to defend their western European countries from other eastern European countries.
Any country that fell for that deal must really be a sucker. Yes we do share heritage.
Once bitten, twice shy,
Ian Hunter, covered later on by Great White.
Harsh, but fair.
Keep building those windmills. In fact you can take those Chinese EVs, put a solar panel and a windmill on top and you’ll have a perpetual motion machine. You can name it after Rube Goldberg.
That unfortunately is NOT fiction.
This meeting, at the orders of Germany, was called to finalise plans to turn the North Sea into one giant windmill field to “provide cheap reliable clean energy to every home in Europe” – except naughty Hungry who won’t play ball.
Meanwhile today British is minus our village idiot.
Two Tier Kier Steamer plus 60 ‘business’ leaders are in their way to China to buy more useless windmills and get China to build more useless “carbon capture” facilities in Britain.
We export all our industry to China and they then sell us the stuff we cannot produce due to our NUT Zero religion.
Like Art Carney the Canadian tried to do last week.
Ah, the famously calm North Sea. What could go wrong?
I could not stop laughing at this. These people are just performance artists, not serious politicians.
Theatre kids still playing a part.
Politics is just theater for the ugly. Also, politicians around the world are much the same… Mostly idiots.
Serious politicians is an oxymoron if I ever heard one.
This level of stupidity is not accidental
It’s simple. The EU wants the lives of the inhabitants of its member nations to be poor, dark, cold and hungry.
“solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short”
Thomas Hobbes
The “Who’s on First” geopolitical gambit.
Well done POTUS!
Hungary should just make its own deals anyway. Leave the EU and negotiate for themselves. The EU has far too much power over what they were supposed to be when they formed the union. Either be a sovereign nation or lose your power to govern your own country. This is a dumb move on the part of the EU.
This is simply the natural result of a gynocentric European Union vaporizing the social contract, in addition to having a complete monopoly on violence.
Unfortunately Europe has to relearn from scratch, exactly what freedom from tyranny really means.
Hopefully we have the brass to not get dragged into $h!tstorm that’s bound to follow..
“Freedom from tyranny” is something we in Europe will very soon have to learn.
Give us 50 years and we will be fully moos lime.
the people of Europe are compliant and quiet about this.
because
they have been forced under order of law that any dissent or protest against any policies…are not permitted.
it’s really sad when you think about it.
the small group of interests that is the EU is no better than the prior German empire that attempted to control and force submission.
it’s the same thing, just with a more “acceptable” form….it comes first slow…then it becomes obvious…then it is sudden…the tyrannt state.
it all goes back to that document we call the constitution…better yet, the idea…shared by all..that power is always at the consent of the people….affirmed by the first amendment of free speech and guaranteed by the second, to bear arms.
europe never developed…..it remains the same stifled regime dominated now by tyrannts
God Bless America
Well said. Thus their push for censorship. No dissent. No criticizing their gross stupidity. All those years of marrying cousins?
How very much like a certain Mustachioed Fellow who was Chancellor of a certain country in the 1930’s between France and Poland whose supporters liked wearing Brown Shirts.
Or as we see in Minneapolis safety vests, black masks, and cookie sheets.
Or at VCU medical- a nursing outfit.
This is stupid, but not quite as stupid as it looks. The play is for India, which is teetering between maintaining its old ties to the Brits and joining the new, new world order, a multipolar global security system that is largely under the auspices of the US-Russia-China-(India). The UK is an arm of the EU now, as is Canada, and they can’t let India leave their orbit.
So oil and gas from Russia to India. Then shipped to Europe? By tankers? Thru Red Sea and Suez? We protect shipping in the Red Sea. Make them go around Africa.
The stupid..
It burns..
No wonder so many of our ancestors ran away from Europe to become the United States of America. I see it now.
History lesson: The Boston Tea Party was in response to the 1773 Tea Act, which imposed a 3 cent duty charge to American farmers who were forced by law to sell to the East India Company as a middleman.
The act forbid colonist farmers from selling tea directly to one another. Tea must be sold wholesale to the East India Company, who would resell as a monopoly back to the colonists.
By Dec 1773, the colonists were so mad at this crony capitalism, they boarded the British vessels and threw the tea that the British just purchased into the bay.
“ The Boston Tea Party (December 16, 1773) destroyed 342 chests of British East India Company tea, valued at approximately £9,659 in 1773 British pounds (roughly equivalent to \(\$1.7\) million in 2026 USD). The damage, which included over 92,000 lbs of tea, involved no destruction to the ships themselves, aside from one broken padlock. ”
By that time, culturally we were no longer British, but something news, where individualism viewed as a strength and not a liability.
The Europeans in the EU do not have that mentality, they believe on conformity and “staying in your lane”.
And hundreds of years worth of waiting for someone (the monarchies) to tell them what they could or could not do.
Follow the logic except I thought the tea was grown and purchased in Asia and Africa.
A+
I can’t wait to see whats going to take place when these people want another “B
Bail out.
I’m smelling an opportunity for U.S. oil and gas producers to sell directly to Hunary and undercut the EU.
That’s a bit tricky, since Hungary is landlocked.
Hungary has waivers from the US tariffs for now. The EU might have to do the same. There are two pipelines from Serbia into Hungary and also an ongoing pipeline project to link to Italy.
The intelligent EU countries need some kind of non aligned group to start acting like a Bloch
So, if the peoples of Europe hated the Russian gas so much, why the EU needs to ban it?
Not banning gas…that’s the work around with what the EU just did with the trade deal- they will fine for buying Russian oil/unrefined NG, but now have a trade partner in India to by the refined , usable end product.
The “mother of all trade deals” says Ursula von der Leyen
Indian purchases by their refineries – 25 per cent tariffs for Russian oil are still on.
20 years too late; this deal was declared finalised for legal scrubbing; while the agreement is expected to be signed later this year, it is likely to come into force in early 2027.
In reality, Europe is replacing US tech companies with nonsense built by Indians. Largely unreported.
Von der Leyen is in India RIGHT NOW securing deals to bring millions of Indian workers and students to Europe. It’s called the Common Agenda on Migration and Mobility and it is 100% about Indian migration (which in reality), is only going to be one-way.
Of course Modi is happy. The deal is expected to double EU goods exports to India by 2032, by eliminating or at least sharply reducing tariffs on 96.6% of the value of EU exports. Guess where India will sell EU goods to; at a price? “This agreement will bring major opportunities for the people of India and Europe,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi said.
Watch the yen’s declining stability – a nearly 30% drop since early 2022. Its status as one of the most uncertain major currencies has significant ripple effects across global trade involving the US, EU, India, and China.
Interesting times ahead.
And today our non leader Keir Steamer is taking a British trade delegation to China.
EU frauds!
Sundance
Good research and write up – of truth!!
Thank you
Re: eeee uuuu, games people play
This song in 1980, tries to send people a message, to be aware of ‘the games people play’ [ and there are a lot of people that play pretend, and many others take it in as (fake) truth ]
Catching people in the midst of their tricks, is tricky, but good – and worthwhile so as to help to make this a better place than how we found it.
Games people play, by Alan Parsons, 1980:
For years the EU has acted to make their energy supplies as expensive and unreliable as possible. That’s why they went so heavily into solar and windmills and shut down cheap and dependable coal and nuclear. That’s why they ban fracking and offshore drilling in favor of bringing in oil and gas from elsewhere. This new insanity is fully consistent with that pattern.
France still relies heavily on nuclear reactors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_France
I know Wikipedia… More recent info: https://sfeninenglish.org/french-nuclear-sector-outlook-2026/
And, UK power: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_the_United_Kingdom.
Is this a sequel to Idiocracy?
These people are nuts!
We need to update Samuel Huntington’s analysis of global conflict: Civilization versus anarchy.
Once again, unfortunately, the positive-myth about rule by women is recognized as a negative-myth.
[ 3 women, 2 “men.” ]
“The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle’s own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our destruction.” AESOP.
These numbnuts are so stupid.
As Spock would say: “Totally illogical.
EU “leadership” is really dumb
I’m pretty darned sure that, after not too much longer, the Europeans are going to realize about “EU” what others came to realize about “USSR.” “This whole thing just isn’t working, and we should all get rid of it.”
The “EU” became “oxen unequally yoked together” as it added many little nations that don’t belong with the big ones. It also created a “common currency,” which none of the countries in question could manage as they once did. Debts proliferated, most not under the debtor’s control. And now, it has created a little hive of bureaucracy in Brussels which is accountable to no one. At one time, it probably sounded like a grand idea. But today: “This whole thing just isn’t working …”
“In order to get the oil and gas that you need, you have to pay us a kickback through our Indian agents . . .”
This isn’t hard to figure out. It’s always about the Money. (And you’re not the one gettin’ it …)
Amazing how an unelected president of an organization that’s supposed to have country by country. Veto power can just do this. The EU is a joke.
There are only unelected politbyro officers.
EP President is the president of ants.
They all will be busted, sitting in jail. Just a matter of time.
Lots of tyrants need to adorning tree branches or lamppost. Or for the French, tyrant heads in baskets.