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The PM’s statement followed a presidential veto that blocked Warsaw from tapping billions in defense loans from the bloc  · Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, February 26, 2026, Warsaw, Poland ©  Klaudia Radecka/NurPhoto via Getty Images · [RT] There is “a real threat” that Poland could leave the EU, Prime Minister Donald Tusk has said, after the country’s president vetoed a bill that would have allowed Warsaw to tap…

Hungarian PM has accused the EU of taking “the war upon itself” · Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban addresses supporters in Budapest, Hungary, March 15, 2026. ©  Janos Kummer / Getty Images · [RT] Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has accused Brussels of dragging the EU into a direct war with Russia through potential troop deployments to Ukraine. · Speaking at the ‘Peace March’ in Budapest on Sunday, which drew…

The rebuke has followed the European Commission’s proposal of a fact-finding mission to inspect damage to the Druzhba pipeline · ©  Thierry Monasse/Getty Images · [RT] Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky has ridiculed an initiative launched by Kiev’s EU backers to restart Russian oil flows through the Druzhba pipeline, calling it “blackmail.” · The accusations came after the European Commission last week proposed a fact-finding…

The Middle East escalation has cut off a number of American allies from the vital Strait of Hormuz · FILE PHOTO. © Getty Images / MAGNIFIER · Oil producers in the Gulf region have lost an estimated $15.1 billion in energy revenues since the launch of the US-Israeli strikes on Iran, the Financial Times reported on Friday, citing estimates by analytics firm Kpler. · The US and Israel conducted coordinated strikes on the…

Kiev has intensified attacks on Russian civilian sites recently, backed by Western arms supplies · RT- FILE PHOTO. ©  Mikhail Voskresensky/RIA Novosti · European leaders are not interested in a diplomatic settlement to the Ukraine conflict, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said. He stressed that the only recent diplomatic outreach by EU states – a visit by a French presidential envoy last month – did not bring “any…

Analyzing Bret Weinstein's intuition that Netanyahu's gift of a golden pager to President Trump has an ambiguous and ominous quality. · John Leake · The following clip piqued my curiosity. · The video prompted me to find an image of the gift. · Weinstein points out that the pager is an allusion to the September 2024 Israeli operation in Lebanon, in which pagers rigged with explosives killed or injured thousands of Hezbollah…

The US journalist could pay the price for calling out important people, the CIA whistleblower has said · FILE PHOTO: Tucker Carlson, founder of Tucker Carlson Network, speaking during a conference. ©  Chip Somodevilla · The life and freedom of US journalist Tucker Carlson might be in danger, CIA whistleblower and host of the RT program Deep State John Kiriakou has said. · Carlson claimed on Saturday that the CIA is…

Tehran has warned of harsh retaliation if its key energy hub is targeted · FILE PHOTO: Satellite view of Iran's Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf. © Getty Images / Gallo Images · US forces have struck military facilities on Kharg Island off Iran’s coast, with US President Donald Trump warning that a major oil terminal there might also be attacked if Tehran continues to block the Strait of Hormuz. · Iranian authorities…

Fertilizer shortages and high prices could collapse the fragile system that feeds the world · Dock workers unload fertilizer from a cargo ship at the port of Lianyungang, China, February 27, 2024 ©  Getty Images;  CFOTO / Future Publishing · The US-Israeli war on Iran has shut fertilizer plants throughout the Gulf and choked off shipping routes. The longer it drags on, the greater…

Trump expresses hope that China and other nations will send warships to the Strait of Hormuz · John Leake · Napoleon famously remarked, “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” I was reminded of this maxim when I saw the following communiqué that President Trump just published on his Truth Social account. · !Image Text · Does President Trump know that Iran is permitting oil tankers destined for China to pass through…