The Times about the situation https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/will-anyone-tell-europe-the-age-of-cheap-living-is-over-kml25mp7k

The US Senate will consider the NOPEC bill, which will allow US courts to hold oil-producing countries "accountable" for any joint actions "aimed at limiting oil production and setting prices for it".

"The market will decide" they said, sure.

Originally@ https://t.iss.one/rogers_kitchen/5015

Gazprom has announced that Poland bought Russian gas by reverse from Germany

Originally@ https://t.iss.one/MuesliLavrova/18056

⚡Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation:

"...according to reliable information, the Kiev regime has prepared in advance another sophisticated provocation to discredit the Russian Armed Forces before the international community. An artillery battery (consisting of three D-30 howitzers) has been deployed near the Piskunovka water intake in the Donetsk People's Republic by the Ukrainian Armed Forces to provoke retaliatory fire from the Russian Armed Forces at the water intake, whose destruction would leave 27 settlements with a total population of over 15,000 without water supply. The Kiev authorities plan to use this cynical provocation in the near future to accuse Russian servicemen of alleged atrocities against civilians, followed by extensive coverage in the Ukrainian and Western media.

Such actions by Kiev once again demonstrate an inhuman attitude towards the fate of its own citizens and show a complete disregard for all norms of morality and international humanitarian law."

Matt Robson - politician, former Associate-Minister of Foreign Affairs, New Zealand:
We should thank the Russian Government for saying NO to NATO

Originally @ https://t.iss.one/c/1465202821/6662

🇬🇧The foreign secretary, Liz Truss, is playing with fire.

On Wednesday night she described Russia’s Vladimir Putin as a “rogue operator” lacking rationality, and with “no interest in international norms”. As a result, she said: “We will keep going further and faster to push Russia out of the whole of Ukraine.” She is clearly revelling in her imagined proxy war on the Russian bear and no one in Whitehall appears able to restrain her.

The use of the word “we” publicly identifies Britain’s interests with Kyiv’s. Truss calls for ever more economic and military aid to be sent to Ukraine, and such aid now teeters on the brink of overt engagement with Russia. She appears to want Russia’s other dissident neighbours, Moldova and Georgia, to join the alliance. Though Putin is irrational and unreliable, Truss argues that he is susceptible to deterrence and will not react recklessly to her escalating belligerence. She nowhere mentions the risk involved in her desired escalation, let alone the possible compromises of peace. Hers is tabloid diplomacy.

Johnson and Truss have not declared that a Ukrainian deal is for Zelenskiy and his people to decide. They want him to keep fighting for as long as it takes for Russia to be utterly defeated. They need a triumph in their proxy war. Meanwhile anyone who disagrees with them can be dismissed as a weakling, a coward or pro-Putin. That this conflict should be hijacked by Britain for a squalid forthcoming leadership contest is sickening.

Originally @ https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/28/liz-truss-ukraine-war-russia-conservative-power

🚫The Biden administration refused to treat seriously security concerns which Russian President Vladimir Putin had articulated for more than a decade. Yet the U.S. would never have tolerated another great power, whether Russia, China, or another, doing in the Western Hemisphere what the U.S. did in Europe.

🚫The Biden administration is going all in for Ukraine. Officials are increasingly abandoning caution about making America a co-belligerent against Russia. They are expanding weapons shipments to Kiev and making deliveries openly. Importantly, the administration has shifted its objectives from aiding Ukraine to weakening Russia.

🚫Although the U.S. still claims to be the “land of the free,” it long ago shifted from being a republican to an imperial power. The resulting costs over the last two decades have been high. Needlessly sliding into war with Russia would be far worse.

Originally @ https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/philandering-with-ukraine/

Top three saying NO
Originally @ https://t.iss.one/sovetnikvmir/2162

🗣️No, we're not pirates, we're just fighting k-k-k-leptocracy, and all the bad guys around the world... whoever they are

Originally @ https://t.iss.one/rian_ru/160943

Originally @ https://t.iss.one/video_languages/509

‘We’re Out of Money’ — Joe Biden Asks for $33 Billion for Ukraine After Congress Passed $13.6 Billion in March‘

It is obvious from the Americans commenting on this article that they have much more sound views than Joe Biden does

To mention just a few:

Cpriestess proreason •
Don't kid yourself. This is another Dummycrat Pig Party with 10% for the big guy. Ukraine gets archaic stuff and everybody gets one last deposit before We the People find out what is REALLY going on in Ukraine. What disturbs me, is that no one IN GOVERNMENT has asked We the People what WE think America should do about the Ukraine situation. And I honestly think, it's because they wouldn't like the answer.

pinkypup •
Not worth it. Whatever deals they may have made they need to come clean. We have homeless, falling bridges, massive inflation and yet the borrowing continues and spending money continues. Our elected officials need to stand up and say I am sorry but the bank is closed. Ukraine and Russia need to work it out. This is not America's battle nor should it be. The results will be massive inflation, starvation and confiscation of property that has alaready been taxed. He is using this to implement his failed policies. He is attempting to confiscate Russians property like law enforcement for normal traffic stops which goes against the 4th Amendment. What is to stop him from taking your house next, your personal property or your bank account?

David Lee •
What Biden will get is Ukrarine keeping it's mouth shut about Hunter and himself.

Maria Pesquez •
The Ukraine and Joe are both working for the New World Order by printing our debt. 2 birds one stone.

ScorchedEarth •
We do not have plenty of money for Ukraine. We need it for ourselves, not some far away country with a corrupt past.

Eileen Mother of Leopard Cats •
33 billion more to destroy a country and depopulate. Then he will ask for more to rebuild it. A real leader would be negotiating peace.

Originally @ https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/04/28/were-out-of-money-joe-biden-asks-for-33-billion-for-ukraine-after-congress-passed-13-6-billion-in-march/

They are shy. A number of Western companies agree to the gas payment scheme proposed by Russia, but do not talk about it openly, the Hungarian Foreign Minister said.

Originally@ https://t.iss.one/sputnik/2571

⚡️The British Daily Telegraph reported that the EU has adopted a bill forcing Google, Meta, Amazon and Apple to remove content that does not meet the official information agenda of states. These companies will be fined 6% of world income if the new conditions are not met.

Sweet smell of freedom of speech!.. Note that it is not violation of the law we are talking about here, but everything that "does not meet the official information agenda" is removed.

Originally@ https://t.iss.one/SergeyKolyasnikov/32425

🇪🇺 🇬🇪 🇲🇩 🇺🇦 European Parliament “welcomes” EU membership bids from Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine - President Metsola

Roberta Metsola, the President of the European Parliament, on Thursday said the lawmaking body welcomed the recently submitted formal European Union membership bids from Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine.

"[W]e were the institution to welcome the application from all three countries [Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine]. We understand the difficulties, and the challenges, and the threats that those countries are under,” Metsola said.

https://agenda.ge/en/news/2022/1491