Martin v.d. Wardt-OR 🇪🇺

Zzp is niet het probleem, maar de oplossing voor de BV Nederland comitezzp.nl/zzp-bedankt

@realtwitcourt Bij een debat zal altijd een norm aan de kaak gesteld worden, qualitate qua.

@realtwitcourt Het zal eerder gaan om of/en? Iets met monikken en kappen?

@IngridC73 Maar wel 50% meer ambtenaren, die moeten ook eten...

#Overheid anticipeert erop dat burgers geen gebruik maken van voorzieningen waar ze al recht op hebben. Bezuinigingen over rug van financieel zeer kwetsbare burgers is verkeerde keuze. Je zult maar moeten kiezen tussen schoenen voor je kinderen & brood! 😡 nos.nl/artikel/260997…

@jakeshieldsajj POTUS is going strong, he will free Haïti from the French rule. Freedom=MAGA

If Trump is able to open the Strait of Hormuz he will be the greatest president in American history No president before him even attempted to negotiate to open it You are playing chess while the president is playing 5D chess MAGA for life

@jakeshieldsajj Trump will free the world of the Sabertooth tiger menace!

@jakeshieldsajj Next he is going to make Mexico independent from Spain!

@KhalidAlNumi Happiness amongst my fellow men. At 100.000 a person

They give you $2 million. You got 20 minutes to spend it or it's gone. Can't buy cars, planes, yachts, or houses. No gold or diamonds either. What you buying?

@Saffron_Sniper1 He concentrated, which is different from building. He is like Mugabe

Why is no one talking about this? After the Soviet Union collapsed, Russia faced chaos, hyperinflation, and poverty. Then Vladimir Putin came to power. He stabilized the economy, addressed the existing crisis, and restored Russia’s strength and pride on the world stage 🇷🇺

@suusonline Een betrouwbare overheid begint bij betrouwbare politici, die durven om weinig te beloven. Twijfelen heb ik altijd een sterk punt gevonden. Gedoogsteun was beter geweest dan meeregeren

Even 'n experiment. Ik stel een vraag en zou graag zoveel mogelijk serieuze inhoudelijke reacties willen krijgen zonder beledigingen en zonder beschuldigingen. Toch haatreacties? Dan beperk ik wie kan reageren. Komt ie... Wat had NSC anders moeten doen volgens jullie? #ZegHetMaar

@V_iswakker Gelukkig heeft in Nederland de @fvd gewonnen!

Wederom massale steun voor Orban. Maar volgens de staatsmedia gaat hij zondag niet winnen 🤡

@rusembassynl @veen_els Ah, yes. Documenting war crime is a crime. When you are imprisoned for it, this is not political. Calling it political is a crime. Russian law is sometimes hard to understand

The Dutch MFA and the NL-based so-called "Russian opposition” declarations on 🇷🇺 internal affairs are unacceptable. Keep your comments on our judicial system to yourselves - better take care of 🇳🇱 problems. #hypocricy t.me/embrusnet/2681

"Ik weet dat hiernaast Fokke woont en dan krijg je Jan en daarnaast zit Marcel. Marcel heeft een hogedrukspuit die ik kan lenen." @OlcayGulsen topper!

@ZelenskyyUa And it would be against all international law. Russia could give up, too, you know

We cannot simply speak about withdrawing from Donbas as a matter of compromise. Our withdrawal from Donbas would open up opportunities for the Russian Federation to occupy our most fortified territories without losses. Some people say it would take a year to a year and a half to build new fortifications. But everyone forgets: first and foremost, that is a year and a half. And even if it were less, fortifications in an open field are a completely different matter from those in urban areas. They can never provide equally strong protection. A withdrawal would give the Russian Federation room for large-scale maneuver. They could advance either toward Kharkiv or toward Dnipro, destroying our cities. And two major cities would be at risk – cities that, incidentally, generate a significant share of our GDP. So many people have died there… The morale of our army would certainly decline. There would undoubtedly be a rift in society. The army – which would surely not support such steps – on one side, and society on the other. And division within society is precisely what Putin is aiming for. Moreover, there are currently 200,000 people living in the territories of Donbas that we are defending. Withdrawal does not mean preserving anything. You leave, and without any guarantees, you risk losing everything. And that is a major risk. From an interview with Rai Radio 1 (2/3).

Just a reminder: in 1982, when Great Britain was attacked by Argentina, starting the Falklands War, the United States did not come to their aid because the Falklands are not in the North Atlantic and the British did not bitch about it. In 1956, when the French and British attacked Egypt, causing the Suez Crisis, despite the fact that France and Great Britain are in NATO, the United States not only refused to assist, but went to the United Nations to condemn them for attacking Egypt. In 2019, when Turkey decided to attack Syria, the Trump administration had the Pentagon send out an official notice that they did not support the campaign and would not send troops. So kindly shut the fuck up, everyone in the White House.

@eagleeye2805 Unite the world!

I say it again and again...given the new geopolitical and economic realities, the internal weakness of the EU itself, the future is the United Confederation of Germania with Germany, Netherlands and Austria as nucleus. 112 million people with an economic power of 7.3 trillion USD (PPP: 8.6 trillion USD), the high tech and logistics core of Europe. These 3 countries already today have the closest partnership within the EU due to similar cultural and fiscal values. This Confederation could be operational in the shortest time. Can the Swiss, Czech, Slovenes, and Danes join? in principle yes, if they want to. Belgium only Flanders.

@_adebrain @IRanMediaco Only those that shoot

@IRanMediaco Israel should stop firing at southern Lebanon. What does Israel wants in all of these? Why does a country that came in as refugees decides some people are nor meant or worthy to be in a region.

BREAKING: The Iranian National Security Council: "Within a few hours, if the firing does not stop in southern Lebanon, the air and missile unit will bomb Tel Aviv.."

@BlackwoodBrief @JL_W10 Let us invest in nuclear power

🚨 Iran makes an offer to Europe regarding the Strait of Hormuz. You can't imagine the scale of the disaster it has unleashed! 🚨 On the surface: Iran has offered the European Union the right of passage through the Strait of Hormuz. It seems like a simple diplomatic move, just typical geopolitical maneuvering. But it's not. It's a devastating financial bomb. Let's understand this well. 💀 20% of the world's total oil consumption passes through the Strait of Hormuz. 💀 Europe's energy bill increased by $16.2 billion in just 30 days of war. 💀 The price of natural gas in Europe increased by 100%, oil by 60%, and the price of a barrel of diesel reached $200. 💀 Dollar reserves have decreased from 70% to 56.9% in 25 years. 💀 Iran joined the BRICS group in 2024. Russia banned dollar transactions. The price of gold reached $5,500 per ounce. ⚠️ If Europe agrees to this deal, it will pay in euros, not dollars. ⚠️ One major non-dollar oil deal would be enough to prove to the world that it's possible. Do you realize the magnitude of what's happening? ⚠️ The petrodollar is the most powerful financial system ever. Born in 1974, it forced every country on Earth to hold dollars to buy oil. This is the foundation of American financial dominance. Not power, not trust, but oil. ⚠️ If this system collapses, the BRICS countries will accelerate their efforts, the Gulf states will reconsider their positions, demand for the dollar will plummet, and America will be unable to finance its $34 trillion debt on easy terms. The United States will not lose a battle, but it will lose the war—the financial war it has been winning since 1974. ⚠️ On April 2, Panetta, a member of the European Central Bank's Governing Council, stated: "Even if the war with Iran ends, the damage has already been done." Deutsche Bank described the Iranian war as a "trigger" to replace the yuan with the US dollar. They portray it as a war about nuclear weapons and regional security. But they don't portray the real war as being about who has the right to issue the world's reserve currency. Here's the logic—think about it carefully: ← Iran closes the Strait of Hormuz to the United States and opens it to the European Union with an agreement. ← The desperate and damaged European Union seriously considers accepting the agreement. ← The agreement is concluded in euros or yuan, not dollars. ← Every country watching the situation—the BRICS countries, the Global South, and the Gulf states—is seeing what is happening. ← "If the EU can bypass the dollar, so can we." ← Demand for the dollar is falling. Reserve shares are collapsing. Inflation is rising in the US. ← You haven't just lost a trade route; you've lost the dollar's 50-year monopoly on the world's trust. If America is so powerful, and the dollar so secure, why would the EU consider making a deal with the country America is bombing? If Western unity is so solid, why did 40 countries meet to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and achieve so little? Deafening silence. This is no longer just a war in the Middle East; it's a direct attack on the petrodollar—the system that fuels the entire American empire. Be prepared. 🚨🚨🚨 This post is being restricted. Like and retweet to keep it published. ⚠️

@liz_langfield @rkmtimes @JudithM71673728 China, really?

@rkmtimes @JudithM71673728 Looks like even the parachutes (very strong plastic) can be repurposed into useful gear- groundsheets, tents, etc. Well done, China. This puts European governments on notice that they must do something about the problem in the Middle East.

JUST IN🇨🇳🇵🇸❌🇮🇱🔥 Chinese military cargo planes arrives with humanitarian aid to the people of Palestine.

@PuttenBas Bestaat Karin wel?

@johnkonrad You could.have had culture..

NATO is in far bigger danger than anyone realizes. And the reason has nothing to do with defense budgets. The real danger is psychological. It’s cultural. Europeans didn’t just free-ride on American security for 80 years. They built an entire identity around the idea that they evolved past the Americans protecting them. That identity is now the single biggest obstacle to Western survival. And the darkest irony is: we helped build it. After World War II, Europe wasn’t just economically shattered. Its culture was in ruins. The cities, the universities, the concert halls, the museums. Rubble. The Marshall Plan rebuilt the economy. But culture wasn’t a priority. Not at first. Then the Iron Curtain dropped. And suddenly culture became a weapon. American diplomats, academics, artists & scholars flooded Western Europe. We funded their universities. Supported their orchestras. Rebuilt their museums. Promoted their intellectual life. Not because European culture needed saving for its own sake. Because Eastern Europeans were struggling for Maslow’s mist basic needs. We needed the view from the other side of that Wall to be intoxicating. So America built Western Europe into a showcase of self-actualization. Art. Philosophy. Cafe culture. Long vacations. Universities where people studied literature instead of surviving. We were manufacturing jealousy. And it worked. The Wall came down. But here’s what no one accounted for. When you give a society self-actualization on someone else’s tab long enough, they forget it was a gift. They start believing it was organically theirs. And when they look at the country that funded it all, a country busy building aircraft carriers and semiconductor fabs and shale fields instead of reaching the Maslow’s pinnacle. An overweight American in a ball cap who can’t tell Monet from Pissarro. Who eats fast food. Who drives a truck. Who builds strip malls instead of piazzas. And to a culture trained in aesthetics but stripped of strategic awareness, that American looks uncivilized. So the arrogance takes root. And once a culture decides another is beneath them, they stop listening. Americans say wars are sometimes necessary: crude. Oil is the backbone of prosperity: unsophisticated. Kids build companies in garages that reshape the planet: crass. Wall Street finances the global economy: vulgar. Europe has no world-class technology sector. No military capable of strong defense. No energy independence. No AI capacity. What Europe has is culture. The culture we paid for at the expense of us reaching Maslow’s pinnacle. For decades that was fine. We funded the museums, protected the sea lanes, and tolerated the sneering because the arrangement worked. Then Europeans stopped keeping the contempt private. They started saying it to our faces. In their media. In their parliaments. At every international forum. “Americans are stupid. Americans are violent. Americans are a threat to democracy.” We could have moved the Louvre to NY. We could have built a Venice here. We could have stolen your best artists, designers, philosophers and more… like your conquering armies did for centuries. Instead we funded them. And all we asked for in return was to let us visit. You don’t have the military to defend your borders. You don’t have the technology to compete. You don’t have the energy to heat your homes without begging dictators. What you have is an 80-year superiority complex FUNDED BY AMERICANS, protected by American soldiers, and built on the false belief that self-actualization is civilization. It isn’t. Civilization is the ability to sustain itself. By that measure, Europe isn’t a civilization at all. It’s a dependency with better wine. That’s not a threat. It’s a weather report. Build a Navy. Or don’t. But stop lecturing the people who made you “better than us” Our “crudeness” our “stunted liberal education” our “ugly strip malls” are because we sacrificed our culture to support yours.