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Posted on 03/17/2026 7:19:06 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
European countries have pushed back against Donald Trump’s decision to ease some US sanctions on Russian oil amid Iran’s blockade of the strait of Hormuz, insisting the international community should maintain pressure on Moscow over its war against Ukraine.
The UK has joined Germany, France and Norway in rejecting the move, with the foreign secretary, Yvette Cooper, decrying what she said was Russia and Iran’s attempt to “hijack the global economy”.
Friedrich Merz, the German chancellor, described Washington’s move to temporarily waive sanctions on Russian oil stranded at sea as “wrong”, as the Trump administration attempted to counter a surge in oil prices.
Merz said: “We believe it is wrong to ease the sanctions. Unfortunately, Russia continues to show no willingness to negotiate. We will therefore, and must, further increase the pressure on Moscow.”
The chancellor insisted that support for Ukraine should continue despite the conflict in the Middle East. “We will not allow ourselves to be deterred or distracted from this by the war with Iran,” he said.
The decision came as US and Israeli jets continued to pound Iran and Lebanon in a deepening regional conflagration that has choked global oil supplies.
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Ohhhh, the hurt...
We won’t be able to sleep tonight...
Dear Guardian (and I use “dear” with extreme reluctance),
No one gives a s**t about you or your loser leftist pretend intellects. Everything you and your predecessors have touched has turned into excrement. You are an abomination and an insult to civilization. Please examine the peace of assuming room temperature. We’ll take care of the smell and disposal.
With relief and a smile. Oh, take your invasive ‘religious’ co—hosts with you.
You just can’t please some people.
Bad time for the EU to think we care. 🙄
From the folks still buying oil and gas from Russia😎
better to sell russian oil at lower prices than higher prices per ship.
What a joke...India was buying Russian oil and selling it to the EU....UNTIL...Trump found out...
The EU should eliminate its own sanctions because Russia is not a threat to it. Europe has nothing needed by Russia. It is full of communists, Muslims, and LGBTs who would give Russia nothing but grief. Russia has nothing to fear from European militaries and thus no motive to attack first.
Blah blah blah. You have nothing to say about it, EU; it’s not your war, remember?
Euroweenies, you can’t make them happy, no matter what you do.
As if Europe matters.
“He who pays the piper, calls the tune.”
Iran could have reached the EU and UK with a nuke and they’ve crapped in our hand.
Now we get Greenland because they shit on us and they’re impotent.
They would never defend Greenland anyway. They’re incapable.
Europe is an ENEMY of the USA.
Then don’t buy it, hypocrites!
They don’t have to like it. They just have to live with it.
What Europe thinks, says, or doesn’t do is not of much importance anymore.
He asked for help from the EU. The EU said FU.
What are they asking for again?
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