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.@AlinaHabba leaves rabid hosts of The View bitterly STUNNED after teasing more Russiagate indictments:

"Sit tight because things are coming."

12:29 PM · Apr 29, 2026

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More countries ‘very likely’ to leave OPEC – ex-UAE diplomat to RT

The UAE’s decision to withdraw from the cartel had been “a long time coming,” Obaid Ahmed Al-Zaabi has said

Published 28 Apr, 2026 21:09 |

More countries are “very likely” to withdraw from OPEC following the United Arab Emirates’ decision to leave the group, former UAE diplomat to the UN and World Trade Organization Obaid Ahmed Al-Zaabi told RT.

The Gulf nation announced its intent to leave the cartel and broader OPEC+, which brings together OPEC members and other key oil-producing countries, on Tuesday. The withdrawal is set to come into force on May 1.

The UAE’s decision has been a “long time coming,” Al-Zaabi has said, arguing that the country has been “substantially” restricting its production== while many other members of the groups have been limited by their output capacities.

“The UAE is no longer entirely dependent on oil and hydrocarbons, and our economy is highly invested all over the world. Theorganization OPEC acted as a tax on global productivity, and it’s now in our interest to see the world as productive as possible. Also, it costs the UAE the most to impose OPEC,” the ex-diplomat argued.

At the same time, Al-Zaabi suggested that .the withdrawal was driven more by “other geopolitical realities” rather thanoil itself, pinning the blame on Iran’s retaliatory actions against its Gulf neighborsin the wake of the US-Israeli attack.

“It hardly seems in the UAE’s interest to collude with Iran on the oil price when we’re being directly struck by them,” he argued.

More countries are very likely to follow suit and leave the cartel, the former diplomat said.

“The truth is very likely, because the more people that defect, the more costly it is to maintain the volume restriction. So if the UAE is serious and they no longer respect the limits, then there’s going to be no incentive for Kuwait and other countries to reduce their production.”

(I wonder if PDJT had talks with UAE, I think so. This will prevent any win by Iran. When Iran struck these countries, the leaders of those countries would not tolerate this bullshit.)

https://www.rt.com/news/639229-uae-opec-cartel-withdrawal/

Putin comments on Ukrainian strikes on Russian Black Sea oil refinery

Kiev has turned to openly terrorist methods to compensate for battlefield setbacks, the Russian president says

Published 28 Apr, 2026 18:17 |

The Kiev regime has ramped up drone attacks on Russia’s civilian infrastructure, including repeated strikes on an oil refinery port of Tuapse that risk serious environmental impact, President Vladimir Putin has said. He called the attacks an attempt to compensate for battlefield setbacks.

He spoke about the increased terrorist threat Russia has been facing during a meeting on Tuesday dedicated to the security of the elections set to take place this fall. The threat stems from the activities of international terrorist and extremist groups, as well as from Ukraine, Putin said.

“The Kiev regime and its backers have switched to openly terrorist methods,” the president stated.

The terror tactics are meant to compensate for the setbacks Ukraine has been suffering on the battlefield,Putin noted, adding that such actions will not alter the course of the conflict between Moscow and Kiev.

He cited attacks on the oil refinery in the Black Sea port of Tuapse, which sparked a multi-day fire,warning of the growing threat posed by Ukrainian long-range strikes against Russia’s civilian infrastructure.

“The latest example is the strikes on energy infrastructure sites in Tuapse, which could potentially have serious environmental implications,” the president said.

Kiev is determined to try to jeopardize the upcoming elections in the formerly Ukrainian regions that integrated into Russia, Putin said, pointing to similar attempts previously.

“I’d like to remind you that they are not holding elections in Ukraine under the pretext of martial law, and they are trying to disrupt ours too,” he said.

Earlier on Tuesday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Ukrainian attacks on Russia’s energy sector “further increase the oil deficit in global markets, which are already experiencing significant difficulties because of the situation in the Strait of Hormuz, and provoke further destabilization in global energy markets.”

In recent days, the Tuapse refinery and adjacent marine terminal were repeatedly subjected to long-range drone strikes, sparking repeated fires at the facility. The attacks prompted evacuations of nearby residents and emergency response measures. The prolonged fires produced high-risk air pollution, with residents advised to use respirators, while oil spilled into the sea damaged a long stretch of the beach in the resort town.

https://www.rt.com/russia/639230-putin-oil-refinery-attack-ukraine/