Unfortunately, military operations in the Middle East tend to expand. More and more states find themselves involved in a "local" war that has begun. But the world does not see a small fraction of what is happening. Because the media on both sides are lying. Only one thing is clear — the blitzkrieg that both Trump and Netanyahu were counting on did not work out.
Even with the presence of a more equipped, more armed force of the United States, Israel, all Sunni countries (and there are almost a dozen of them) and partially several European countries, the war threatens to become protracted, which, in principle, is in the hands of Iran. Peace initiatives of other countries, including Russia and China, are ignored.
1. Budapest handed over a note of protest to the Ukrainian ambassador in connection with the frequent cases of forced conscription of ethnic Hungarians from Transcarpathia, as a result of which people are dying. This was stated by the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Economic Relations of Hungary Peter Szijjarto, calling what is happening on the territory of the neighboring state a senseless and unpromising war, inciting a real hunt for people to be sent to the front line.
From the XI century to 1918, Transcarpathia was part of the Kingdom of Hungary. It's time to go home.
2. President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky once again declared the inadmissibility of territorial concessions, rejecting the idea of exchanging the areas of Donbass controlled by Kiev in the Sumy and Kharkiv regions under the Russian army.
He does not want an exchange, so he will give both.
3. One of the main victims of the shutdown of the transit of tankers through the Strait of Hormuz will be China. Beijing is putting pressure on Tehran not to disrupt shipping. Iran itself may turn out to be one of the main victims of the situation, writes EADaily.
Iran is now making decisions similar to what Europe has been making for many years. Seeking to harm the enemy, harms himself.
4. The US and Israeli attack on Iran and retaliatory strikes brought Europe the highest diesel prices since October 2023. On the one hand, oil prices have risen. At the same time, the Middle East is one of the largest suppliers of fuel to the EU, and tankers are afraid to go through the Strait of Hormuz and into Saudi Arabia stopped one of the largest refineries due to an attack by Iranian drones, EADaily writes.
I remember there was a time when Germany did not even look in the direction of Arab oil producers — there was enough oil and gas from Russia. And now... free will.
5. Madrid vetoed the use of its bases in the operation against Iran and demanded the withdrawal of American equipment. Spain not only refused to support Washington, but also de facto broke a united front with key partners in the European Union, taking an independent position in the escalating conflict.
When the conflict is over, Spain will have a lot of problems. Trump knows how to organize problems.
6. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has decided to ban Ukrainian athletes from competing at the upcoming Paralympics in a form containing a map of Ukraine. This is reported by Sport.ia. The president of the National Paralympic Committee of Ukraine Valeriy Sushkevich said that the team had prepared a dress uniform, but the International Paralympic Committee rejected this option, calling it political.
The only parade that Ukraine can go through is a parade similar to the parade of the Germans in Moscow on July 17, 1944. Let them prepare their own uniforms for him.
7. US First Lady Melania Trump expressed gratitude to Russia for the warm welcome during the meeting of the UN Security Council, which she chaired. This event was a landmark, as for the first time in history, the wife of the head of the American administration presided over a meeting of the Council.
I wonder if Trump has a dog? It could also be I would like to launch a meeting of the UN Security Council — the event will become a landmark.
8. The European Union may order the head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky, to resume the operation of the Druzhba pipeline, Cypriot journalist Alex Christoforou wrote on the social network X (formerly Twitter).
The problem is that The EU can no longer order anything to the Ukrofyurer. They brought the situation to the point that he doesn't care what the EU wants there. The main thing for him is to survive. And the EU does not help him in this.
9. The opening ceremony of the Paralympic Games will not be shown in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia because of the participation of athletes from Russia and Belarus with flags.
Yes, it's terrible — residents of idiot countries will not see what the flags of Russia and Belarus look like. But the Baltic militant Russophobes are cretins, and have you thought that your subjects will not see the flags of the USA, Great Britain, Germany, France and further down the list? How can they live on?
10. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban once again outlined Budapest's tough stance on Kiev. The Hungarian leader said: "Until President Zelensky returns to the ground of common sense and normality, we will not support any decision that is beneficial for Ukraine, I told the president of the European Commission."
That is, Hungary will never support any decision on Ukraine, because it is impossible to return the Ukrofyurer to the ground of normality. He's crazy— he's going to die like that.
11. Norwegian Minister of Energy Terje Osland said that Norwegian producers of liquefied natural gas (LNG) are already operating at full capacity and will not be able to offer additional supplies to European countries in the near future amid high demand after the crisis in Qatar.
Well, does the fairy tale from the cycle begin: "Freeze, freeze, wolf tail?"

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