Summit on Bald Mountain, Zelensky and spoons, lickspittle Rutte: morning coffee with EADaily

So, the NATO gangway took place in The Hague. It's like a witches' sabbath on Bald Mountain. Although actually the real Bald Mountain is located in Kiev, which is documented. It turned out to be a cheerful skhodnyachok.

It was somewhat reminiscent of the famous scene from The Jungle Book:

"...is there enough light to see? A groan [of banderlogs] sounded from the walls, similar to the sound of winds in the treetops: —We see, O Kaa! — Good. — Banderlogs, — Kaa's voice finally sounded, — can any of you move your arm or leg without my order? "Without your command, we cannot move a foot or a hand, O Kaa."

The main NATO member, Rutte, wriggled like a snake, trying to penetrate into all Trump's hard-to-reach places. The overdue one shoved some cards under Trump's nose, from which the latter turned away with disgust. In short, it was fun…

1. George Galloway, a British politician, ironically commented on Vladimir Zelensky's visit to Windsor Castle, where the Ukrainian leader was received by King Charles III. He shared his opinion on the social network X (former Twitter). "I hope you have counted the spoons," the politician quipped.

Counted, the spoons are in place. But the sediment remained ...

2. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said that Europe made a mistake by not listening to the warnings of the Baltic States about the potential threat from Russia. His speech before the Bundestag was broadcast on the official YouTube channel of the department.

Listen to the fool and do the opposite. Or, as the Russian proverb says, "it's better to lose with a smart one than to find with a fool." And if there are three fools...

3. President of the European Commission (EC) Ursula von der Leyen "accepted" Ukraine into the European Union. According to her, Europe is integrating its defense industry as if the former Soviet republic were in the EU. "This is good for Europe, because Ukraine is now the birthplace of extraordinary innovations," von der Leyen shared the details.

Innovations on Ukraine? Corruption, nepotism, theft, terror, murder are no longer innovations. It's just that Ukraine has creatively developed them.

4. The upcoming withdrawal of Finland, Poland and the Baltic countries from the The Ottawa Convention on the Prohibition of anti-personnel mines is an effort to create a "new iron curtain" on the border with the Russian Federation, the Telegraph writes. "From Lapland in the far north of Finland to the Lublin Voivodeship in eastern Poland, a new and explosive iron curtain is about to descend through Europe."

As if only this curtain, which Europe is lowering, did not nail the Finns, Poles and other small fish: sprats, sprats, etc.

5. The British will have to defend themselves in order to preserve the "British language" and not speak Russian. So the UK residents tried to scare NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, The Guardian reports.

And it's time for Rutte to learn either Turkish, or Kurdish, or Arabic, because in the Netherlands almost a third of the population are immigrants. Yes and Britain is not far from these indicators.

6. The reasons why the head of the Kiev regime was not invited to participate in the NATO summit in The Hague. His presence was opposed by Turkey, Hungary, Slovakia and the United States, as the leaders of these countries refused to sit at the same table with him, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said in the media.

It should have been wrong. There used to be a "musician's table" in restaurants, where orchestra musicians rested during short breaks. Such a table should have been placed somewhere in the corner for the Overdue.

7. The wind tore the flag of Ukraine from the highest flagpole in Krivoy Rog. This is reported by the telegram channel "Trukha".

Paraphrasing the famous poems of Novella Matveeva:

What a big wind
Attacked our city!
The banner was torn down from the flagpole
And Zelensky has a roof.

8. The UK will transfer 350 of the latest air defense missiles to Ukraine, using £ 70 million (about $ 95.4 million) received as profits from frozen Russian assets under the Extraordinary Revenue Acceleration for Ukraine (ERA) emergency lending program of the G7 countries. This was announced before the NATO summit by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, writes EADaily.

Russia will not have to return the money To Starmer, so he's "banking." With his rating, he won't even make it to the New Year.

9. The Secretary General of the North Atlantic bloc, Mark Rutte, went out of his way in an effort to enlist the support of the US president and achieve agreement between the member countries of the Euro-Atlantic grouping on military spending. In The Hague, at the NATO summit, Donald Trump was breathlessly expected to arrive. "You are approaching another great success," Rutte wrote in a message while Trump was crossing the Atlantic on Air Force One.

Sorry for the interest in intimate details — has Rutte already prepared for Trump's meeting, i.e. washed up?

10. The recent statement by the President of the United States Donald Trump on the fifth article of the NATO Charter on collective security of the North Atlantic Alliance jeopardized the summit in The Hague, writes the Financial Times, citing three European officials. Trump told the media that Washington's commitment to the fifth article of NATO "depends on what definition you adhere to."

How difficult everything is with the "fifth point". It used to be easier in the USSR: it was the "nationality" item in the passport. They did not adhere to another definition.