Ronald van Bakel

@stationd5 @Tendar Oh look, an American who knows what is best for a country he probably can’t even find on a map.

@Tendar Congratulations Hungary, you just ruined your own economy. Now yall will have to pay 2-3x more for gas and energy 😂😂

People in the Budapest Metro, Hungary, shouting: “Russians, go home!”

@DeOverlap Alleen Feyenoord fans vinden dit een overduidelijke fout. Hier zullen best wel eens rode kaarten voor worden uitgedeeld, maar vaak ook niet. De enige duidelijke rode kaart die de scheidsrechter mistte was die voor van Persie, wat gedroeg die zich bizar.

Hoe kan je dit als scheidsrechter 10x bekijken op zo'n schermpje en niet doorhebben dat dit rood is? Het zou schandalig zijn als Gozubuyok dit jaar nog in de eredivisie mag fluiten.. #Feyenoord #Rotterdam

@TheStudyofWar So now Trump is doing the work for Putin to help him fund his was against Ukraine?

NEW: US President Donald Trump announced that the US Navy will prevent all vessels from transiting through the Strait of Hormuz on April 12 after US negotiators left Islamabad without a US-Iran deal. Iran reportedly refused to concede its “control” over the Strait of Hormuz, which is Iran’s primary source of leverage, and would only open the Strait after a final peace agreement was made. Trump said that the US Navy will begin destroying the mines that Iran laid in the Strait. Iran is using the threat of its naval mines, of which there are reportedly fewer than a dozen, to keep the price of oil and shipping insurance as high as possible for as long as possible without conducting attacks that would cause the ceasefire to collapse. Trump also said that the United States will interdict every vessel that has paid tolls to Iran. Iran has been using the threat of attacks and naval mines to force ships to use Iranian territorial waters to traverse the Strait, which allows Iran to shakedown these ships for fees as part of a protection racket. The lack of progress in the negotiations is unsurprising—Iran is seeking an all-encompassing agreement that would transform the US-Iran relationship and end the threat of future conflict. Iran brought over 70 diplomats, parliamentarians, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC)-adjacent figures, and high-level economic technocrats to the negotiations, which underscores Iran’s wide-ranging negotiating intentions. The United States seeks a much narrower agreement centered on the current war and the nuclear program. US Vice President JD Vance told reporters on April 12 that the United States is seeking reassurances that Iran will not attempt to quickly build a nuclear weapon. The US and Iranian negotiators did not reach an agreement on an Iranian counterproposal to US demands that Iran give up its highly-enriched uranium stockpile, according to Iranian officials. ISW-CTP will provide further analysis on the war with Iran in its April 12 Iran Update.

@sporza_koers Zelfs? Als deze twee mannen de afgelopen jaren iets bewezen hebben dan is het wel dat ze tegenstanders zijn op de weg, maar elkaar daarnaast gewoon waarderen.

Zélfs Van der Poel kwam hem meteen feliciteren: het pure geluk bij familie Van Aert, die "moeilijke momenten" vergeten is sporza.be/nl/2026/04/12/… #sporza

@rusembassynl Maybe you should have thought about before shooting down a passenger plane with hundreds of Dutch people. You could at least have said sorry.

"We are not enemies of the Dutch people and of the Netherlands" - watch honest podcast with the Russian Ambassador H.E. Vladimir Tarabrin. Full video here: youtu.be/3hjeUeYVEME?is…

@Rhyszinger @TheMoneyApe Your love for this Trump guy Mae’s you blind. Find some help.

Oh like the way you or your constituents did things was making any progress! Trump has made more progress in months to solve the Iran problem in the middle east than any of the past admins have done in years so STFU and go away Bolton! You and yours had your chance and you blew it!

🚨BOLTON: TRUMP'S STRATEGY WRONG🚨 "IT IS A MISTAKE TO SEND THE VICE PRESIDENT." JD VANCE ARRIVED IN PAKISTAN FOR NEGOTIATIONS WITH IRAN IRAN PICKED THE LEVEL OF TALKS. AMERICA AGREED. TRUMP WANTS A WAY OUT AN…Show more

@Planet_F1 Of course F1 does not need Verstappen or any other driver. Stars come and go and the sport always survived. Combined with the current Mario Kart style racing however I would-be a bit more worried if I was FOM.

Would F1 be a poorer place without Max Verstappen?

@rockets_cycling @jossewester Nice clip guys!

Special race. Special bike. 🤤 🍿 youtu.be/FLrT8l_x-oM

@Namesiithe2nd @PenteanoO @wearetherace @XPBImages Yeah, and see where it got us.

@RonaldvanBakel @PenteanoO @wearetherace @XPBImages Like the current F1 regulations weren't the result of politics lol.

🗣️ "Everyone enjoys driving GT3 cars — they’re fun." Lance Stroll will make his GT debut this at this weekend's GT World Challenge Europe season opener at Paul Ricard - and says he consulted Max Verstappen when he had the idea:

@PenteanoO @wearetherace @XPBImages Nope, the fact street football is fun to do, does not mean it is fun to watch. Bop kills Motorsport on the highest level and changes it into a game of politics, perfect for lower tier classes, but not fit for the highest tiers.

@wearetherace @XPBImages So... bring BoP and homologation to F1...?

@idreesali114 Everybody knows what most likely happened, but given the state of American democracy I doubt a thorough investigation will be done.

April 8 (Reuters) - Investors placed an approximately $950 million bet on oil prices falling just hours before the U.S. and Iran announced a ceasefire, the latest large wager on the direction of the world's most traded commodity ahead of a major policy announcement by Trump.

😔 No sprint for Dylan… He got held up in a crash. 🇧🇪 #SP26

@UnracedF1 Nope, no news since his horrible handbike accident 5 or 6 years ago. The last thing I can remember was that his condition was stable. My guess is that it is not the good kind of stable, but that is all speculation.

Does anyone have, i have no clue.

@dpatrikarakos Honest question: is loosing a c-130 and a A-10 in the process okay to the US public? Seems a bit much against a country that has no air defence left according to Trump.

US forces have rescued the pilot shot down over Iran. Yuge news for Trump. The Iranians parading a captured (and likely beaten) US pilot on State TV would have been disastrous for his already plummeting popularity.

@realMAG1775 Okay, bye bye! 👍

100,000 troops in Europe. Zero help on Hormuz. Bring them home now. No more free rides.

@racefansdotnet Yeah, he is one of the main causes of these horrible engine rules. But some how a lot of F1 press never seems to feel the freedom to criticize Wolff. Kudos for this article.

NEW: “That’s not going to happen”: Wolff’s 2023 defence of F1’s new rules has not aged well Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff's insistence F1 could solve problems with its 2026 engine regulations More: racefans.net/2026/04/04/tha…

@RVAwonk @ChrisO_wiki Of course he is. He helped Trump to get his job.

The Trump administration just lifted sanctions on one of the Russians who was hit with sanctions for US election interference.

@thijszonneveld Gelukkig, de Belg heeft al een andere dader gevonden. Laporte heeft niet genoeg afgestopt. #stakkers

@thijszonneveld Jawel. Op de Belg worden ze gek. Echt jammer voor van Aert. Ik had het hem gegund.

Het zal toch niet waar zijn.

@Isa_Yusibov Sterkte samen.

mijn vriendin heeft een miskraam gehad, vandaar dat alles momenteel op een laag pitje staat.

Lieve mensen, veel dank voor DM's over mijn ongebruikelijke afwezigheid op Twitter. Om privéredenen ben ik genoodzaakt om tijdelijk inactief te zijn. Binnenkort wel weer terug! Nogmaals dank!