Estonia's minority statement, in full, because it is the best sentence anyone has produced this month:
"The package as adopted measures the rope while the arson is at the door."
Júlia Kovács
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basebrats
27 Jan 2026 08:40
Kaiserslautern. My husband cannot get fuel to fly home and my grocery card stopped working. What is actually happening?
Not political. I do not know what any of this means and I am getting nothing from the base. Card did not work at the commissary. Two aircraft that were supposed to take his section out on Monday are still sitting there. Somebody said it is …
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wire record
27 Jan 2026 13:30
The first sanctions ever placed on the United States
Ports, insurance, payments, designations. Hungary abstains and refuses to implement. Estonia records that the package "measures the rope while the arson is at the door."
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Europa building, Brussels
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@jkovacs_pol · reporter
27 Jan 2026 13:40
Júlia Kovács
Adopted. The European Union has imposed sanctions on the United States of America. Ports, insurance, payments, and a designation list on 2 February. Hungary abstained, which does not block, and has announced it will not implement. Four hours over the scheduled…
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@jkovacs_pol · reporter
27 Jan 2026 13:52
Júlia Kovács
What was rejected matters as much. A general ban on US military aircraft and vessels using any EU infrastructure was dropped — Berlin and Paris said it would be "a blockade, drafted and signed." Naming US officials individually was set aside and "held in reser…
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@siobhan_cork · civilian
27 Jan 2026 15:00
Siobhán
Genuine question for anyone who knows: what happens to ordinary things? I have a US pension from eight years in Boston. My sister banks with an American bank here. Is any of that in this, or is it only governments? Nobody in the coverage says and everyone I as…
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@POTUS · state
27 Jan 2026 15:10
The President of the United States
Those weapons are American property, in American vaults, with American locks. Nobody needs a letter from me to understand who they belong to.
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Press gaggle, the Roosevelt Room
27 Jan 2026 15:10
Asked about sanctions, and about the weapons at Büchel
Q: The European Union has sanctioned the United States. First time in history. A: First time in history. They should put that on a plaque. Hungary wouldn't sign it. One country in twenty-seven still remembers who paid for the last eighty years. Q: Mr President…
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@hull_and_wake · osint
27 Jan 2026 15:30
hull&wake
The port ban is retrospective and follows the vessel, not the voyage. Any hull that has called at US-controlled Greenland since 19 Jan is barred from every EU port, permanently. Charter desks were declining US government business within ninety minutes. Not bec…
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