Belgian Tankie
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@BelgianTankie
Some would call me a tankie 🤷🏻♂️
De Russische defensieuitgaven lopen voor 2023 op tot +80 miljard euro. Onhoudbaar voor een land met een economie die voor de invasie al kleiner was dan Italië en nu nóg veel kleiner is. Als de energieprijzen zo laag blijven als vandaag gaat Rusland crashen. Dit jaar of in 24.
I received this heartbreaking message from a Jewish professor at @UAntwerpen, who is leaving both the city and the university after four decades. I can hardly express how deeply this saddens and enrages me—especially in light of last week’s craven and disgraceful charade surrounding the honorary doctorate of @FranceskAlbs. "After fifty years living in Antwerp and forty years at the University of Antwerp as student, assistant and professor, I’m leaving. I no longer feel at home in the city and feel completely estranged from my university that has become a hotbed of radicalism and has completely lost its sense of academic values of critical thinking, discussion and genuine diversity of viewpoints. I fear that the student generation that – with the support of the university authorities - has now become indoctrinated and brainwashed to a point of no return. My son who was born and raised in Antwerp and who wears a kippa, has been called a child murderer on the street by a Flemish person and was told to “get out of here”. At the university the students are shouting that Jews should get out of Palestine. He and his family are leaving too. It just became a bad place for Jews." This is on you, rectors. You have made universities into hostile places for Jews (unless they ritually denounce zionism and Israel). They will abandon you and take all their learning, knowledge and wisdom with them. And don't worry, @UGent, you have scarcely any Jewish professors left to begin with. The great Jewish linguist and classicist Julien Klener has long since retired. When I met him recently, he told me how relieved he is not to have to endure this ideological madness anymore.
Barack Obama and Zohran Mamdani sing ‘Wheels on the Bus’ at a childcare center in the Bronx.
Wat een onzin (weeral): PVDA-boegbeeld Peter Mertens : “De nieuwe lening voor Oekraïne is het pensioen van uw moeder, hè” - de Belgische pensioenuitgaven zijn 80 miljard per jaar (elk jaar) - de Oekraïne-lening is éénmalig 90 miljard van heel Europa dezondag.be/actua/politiek…
Under international law, transit through waterways like the Strait of Hormuz must remain open and free of charge. This is what leaders made clear in their call on reopening the Strait today. Any pay-for-passage scheme will set a dangerous precedent for global maritime routes. Iran has to abandon any plan to levy transit fees. Europe will play its part in restoring the free flow of energy and trade, once a ceasefire takes hold. The EU’s Aspides naval mission is already operating in the Red Sea and can be quickly strengthened to protect shipping across the region. This could be the fastest way to provide support.
Breaking! @RuttenGwendolyn blijkt met zekerheid te weten dat Rusland geen hand had in de drone-intrusies boven militaire bases en luchthavens, die zich in de periode sep - dec 2025 in achtereenvolgens 9 EU-lidstaten afspeelden. Beste @RuttenGwendolyn : welk bewijs heeft u in handen om de piste Rusland categorisch uit te sluiten? Welke actor was het dan wél? En welke bewijzen heeft u daarvoor? De inlichtingendiensten van de hele EU hangen aan uw lippen. Ze dorsten naar uw inside-kennis hierover.
