Tinderbox

Two Romanian villages were evacuated on Monday after a drone struck a Turkish-flagged tanker, setting it ablaze in southern Ukraine.

The MT Orinda was hit while offloading liquefied petroleum gas in a Ukrainian border city near Romania, sparking fires while more than a dozen workers were onboard.

The strike came the day after Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky signed a deal to import energy resources through the area of the strike.

  Independent UK

Russian drones in Romania and Poland, now this...

Three Russian fighter jets violated Estonia’s airspace on Friday for an unusually long period, some 12 minutes, in what Estonia’s foreign minister called an “unprecedentedly brazen” intrusion over the NATO country.

NATO responded to intercept the Russian jets, Allison Hart, the military alliance’s spokeswoman, said in a statement on X. “This is yet another example of reckless Russian behavior and NATO’s ability to respond,” she said.

Early on Saturday the Russian Ministry of Defense said in a post on Telegram that Russia did not violate Estonian airspace and that the jets had acted in compliance with international regulations.

  NYT

 

Elsewhere

In Georgia, the pro-Putin “Dream Party” is falling. In Romania, Putin’s puppets have been exposed and elections invalidated. Damascus has fallen, and Syria’s Assad has been toppled. Putin looks weaker than ever. Trump looked like a bumbling fool at the Notre Dame Cathedral in France as Macron showed what leadership looks like, bringing an energized Zelensky into a photo op with Trump. It feels like everything is happening everywhere all at once.

  Meidas Touch

At least SOMEBODY's courts are working

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

In Romania?

In the days preceding the official conclusion of the Mueller Report, Brad Parscale, Trump’s campaign manager, was on a trip to Romania, where he outlined a $1 billion dollar strategy to get the U.S. President re-elected in 2020.

[...]

Parscale delivered a talk on Thursday at the Romanian Academy with the title “Let’s Make Political Marketing Great Again” in the presence of numerous personalities of Romania’s political and academic elite. “This is the farthest East I've ever gone in my life today in Romania”, Parscale confessed during the event. In this unlikely context so far from home, he shared fascinating details about the Trump campaign's . During his three-day stay in Bucharest, Parscale also gave an extended public interview in prime time on a popular TV news station and met with various local business and political leaders.

  Forbes

Why is he giving that talk there?

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

He Has No Fucking Idea

President Donald Trump appeared to directly contradict Romanian President Klaus Iohannis's response to a question on visa waivers at a press conference Friday in the Rose Garden.

Asked whether the two leaders discussed the waiver program for Romania, Iohannis responded, "yes."

But Trump quickly chimed in, adding, "We didn't discuss it. We didn't discuss it, but there would be certainly -- it would be something we will discuss."

Trump then signaled for the Romanian president to continue his response. Iohannis stated, "I mentioned this issue, and I also mentioned it during other meetings I had, because this is important for us. It's important for Romanians who want to come to the United States."

[...]

It is unclear whether Trump intended to dispute that the waiver program came up in his meeting with the Romanian President.

  CNN

He apparently doesn't know the answer to that himself. But it is completely clear that he is totally unfit for his office.