Dave Van Meel

@atrupar @SecGenNATO thinks this man is doing a great job. Remove Trump and remove Rutte, for the sake of the world.

Trump: "'Sir, could I have a little breakfast so we could discuss this bill?' You know, like a perfect bill, like voter ID or something. But Bill didn't have to be too great to do it. He said, 'Can we maybe have a little breakfast at the White House, sir? 'Cause I can get there, but I'm just not there.' 'Come on over for breakfast, Bill.' You know? I got a lot of them too. I have about nine of them. But these are the people we love. These are the people we love."

@atrupar How can people not see that he's making shit up on the spot? This is beyond anything we could have imagined until recently. The world needs to bypass the US govt. It's in the interest of the world.

COLLINS: Who's gonna be in control of the Strait of Hormuz? Who's gonna be in control of that? TRUMP: Uhhhh it'll be jointly controlled COLLINS: By who? TRUMP: Maybe me. Maybe me. Me and the next ayatollah, whoever that is. There will also be a serious form of regime change. Look at Venezuela.

@DougLain @SohrabAhmari We have all seen that the USA govt is now an unreliable, unpredictable grifter with expensive military toys in the hands of a narcissist toddler. Whatever the spin you need for MAGA.

@SohrabAhmari Read the Art of the Deal. Maximal demands, apply pressure, then pivot. Now Iran can soften while remaining defiant. Just by not getting the country's lights turned out they can "win." And the Strait can be opened step by step without the appearance of total capitulation.

As an American who cares about maintaining US prestige, I have to say: You don't put US prestige on the line like that, man. My God. This is the most irresponsible presidency of my lifetime. The Bushies were *not* like this. They weren't this haphazard, willy-nilly.

@WhiteHouse Only two days ago there was no one to talk to. Do you think people have the memory of a mouse?

🚨 President Donald J. Trump calls for a pause on all military strikes against Iranian power plants and energy infrastructure for a five-day period, subject to the success of the ongoing meetings and discussions.

@SecRubio Not even bothering anymore to use a spelling checker, eh?

@SherminAmiri "please to report", "witch will continue"... Je moet al hopen dat het fake is.

Trump doet een stap terug zonder echt terug te trekken. Geen koerswijziging, maar een tijdelijk uitstel onder voorwaarden. De aanval op Iraanse energie-infrastructuur is niet van tafel, alleen vijf dagen opgeschort terwijl de gesprekken lopen. Hij zoekt een uitweg uit zijn eigen escalatie, maar wil die verkopen als onderhandelen vanuit kracht.

@spectatorindex 'I am please to report...' The president of the USA, ladies and gentlemen.

BREAKING: Trump announces halt to any plans for strikes on Iranian power plants

@chrcallewaert Israël natuurlijk. Trump kondigt pauze van vijf dagen aan en Israël lanceert binnen het uur nieuwe aanvallen. Iran ontkent directe contacten. Trump heeft just niks in handen. Deze man en zijn hele entourage zijn compleet ongeschikt voor wereldpolitiek.

Trump heeft één groot wapen. Hij kan de aftocht blazen, een vernederend akkoord sluiten, maar tweeten dat hij de grootste veldheer is sinds Alexander De Grote en zijn volgelingen zullen dat enthousiast geloven. Vraag is wat hem tegenhoudt.

@PedderSophie The crazier Trump goes, the better the chances of nonpopulist parties in Europe.

These were mayoral 🇫🇷 elections, so any national extrapolation is of course hazardous. But if you go by voting in towns with > 100,000 population, one cautious conclusion is this : the broad non-populist centre can hold

@thescottbarber Sometimes?

Sometimes I worry that Trump and the people around him have no clue what they are actually doing and our whole world is at the mercy of the whims of a narcissistic personality disorder.

@Mylovanov Remove Trump & his admin. There is no way out of this with them, they don't have the cognitive ability to understand they are on the wrong side of the table. And I don't understand Ukraine/EU still trying to appease. There is no appeasing with him and Ukraine will be betrayed.

Axios: Trump is preparing a peace plan for Iran. Six demands on the table: 1. no missiles for 5 years 2. zero uranium enrichment 3. decommission Natanz/Isfahan/Fordow 4. strict centrifuge monitoring 5. missile cap of 1,000 6. no financing for Hezbollah, Houthis or Hamas. 1/

@KarlVanlouwe En op je volgende verkiezingsfolder staat dat je voor 'verbinding' wil zorgen, zeker?

Laten we de slachtoffers van 22 maart niet vergeten maar evenmin wie dit leed veroorzaakt heeft : - Ibrahim El Bakraoui - Khalid El Bakraoui - Najim Laachraoui - Mohamed Abrini -Salah Abdeslam -Osama Krayem - Ali El Haddad Asufi - Bilal El Makhoukhi - Hervé Bayingana Muhirwa

@WSJ Toddlers.

The U.S. request to delay a summit between President Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping served as a reminder that Washington still drives the global agenda—not China on.wsj.com/3NC6Opg

@ezeluc @Riadh_B @vrtnws Gij gaat mee dan?

Ik vind @Riadh_B een verademing bij het @vrtnws. « Of blijft Europa weer aan de zijlijn, » als het over de golfstaten gaat. Het is misschien maar één woordje, maar hij zegt het wel, datgene wat zowat de hele straat denkt. 👍🏻

@MelinaCycling @JanJambon Ik geloof dat we op heel verschillende kanten van het spectrum zitten, maar dit is wel grappig 😅

En nu @JanJambon ? Wie moet er hier wat harder werken? En wat is de impact op de pensioenmalus?

@EMTVmemes @TimothyDSnyder @TalentEvaluator Strategy, anyone?

@TimothyDSnyder @TalentEvaluator Dude, disagree with the war. I certainly do. You cannot possibly describe this as a loss though. Militarily speaking Iran is getting dog walked.

He took the greatest military force in world history, lost a war to a middle power in a week, begged the world to save him, and demanded that the media lie about this and everything else. I try, but at a simple human level I do not see how anyone can mistake this man’s almost supernatural weakness for strength. His weakness is something negative, gravitational, so deep that it can draw in a whole country. But only if we fail to see it. Only if we let it.

@strategywoman Spring always wins 🥳 You will win, too.

Kyiv. The Dnipro River has thrown off its winter coat. Only a thin layer of ice still clings to the water. Spring has won.

@BartDeMeulenaer Poetin krijgt op dit moment lappen in het zuiden van Oekraïene. Je weet wel, dat land dat Europa verdedigt en inmiddels één van de meest geavanceerde en ervaren legers ter wereld heeft. Collaboratieneigingen blijven toch een dingetje bij extreemrechts.

Binnenkort verwachten Merz, Macron natuurlijk wel Amerikaans enthousiasme om Putin een lap te geven.

@EinsteinBarbie Toch al even geleden dat ik "Europa heeft een Trump nodig" heb gehoord. De dieprechtse rakkers hebben het er niet meer zo vaak over.

Maar serieus, zijn er hier nu nog steeds mensen die Trump een briljant strateeg vinden?

@SpencerHakimian Trump predicted it. He wrote it in his book! It's time you Americans do something more serious about this than just tweeting.

🚨BREAKING: MASSIVE IRANIAN MISSILE BARRAGE RIGHT NOW