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Drie mensen op straat in Kyiv over hoe het nieuws uit het Witte Huis hen beïnvloed. "Voor het eerst in mijn leven lees ik vanaf het moment dat ik opsta tot het moment dat ik naar bed ga het nieuws [...] omdat alles er vanaf hangt: onze levens en het lot van Oekraïne."

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Die AfD wird fast 150 Sitze haben, ein Heer an Mitarbeitenden, die sich aus der extremen Rechten rekrutieren, mit Kontakt zu Terrorgruppen. Auch ohne Musk bedeutet das einen massiven Ausbau der zivilgesellschaftlichen Schützengräben mit Geld und Ressourcen. Dem gilt es etwas entgegenzusetzen.

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I hope it is completely clear now that you cannot be a supporter of Donald Trump and support freedom and democracy in Ukraine. If you support Trump, you support the USA working closely and justifying Putin's dictatorship in the invasion of Ukraine. Accept it.

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Lezen, dit opiniestuk van de Oekraïense dichter Ljoebka. 'Na dromen van een overwinning op de agressor, zijn we teruggevallen op de vernederende hoop op een onrechtvaardige vrede.' kyivindependent.com/after-3-year...

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🇩🇪 German election 2025 The conservative CDU and far-right AfD are celebrating this morning, while the center-left SPD is reeling following their worst result in well over a century. Here are the winners and losers of the night 👇 ow.ly/4EO550V552H

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Wagenknecht’s BSW fails to enter parliament by a whisker while her old party die Linke, on a new, clear leftwing progressive platform, gets in on their best result since 2009. Quite a story and devastating for Wagenknecht who is dammed to political irrelevance.

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EU delivers: Foreign Ministers just approved the 16th package of sanctions against Russia. It hits everything from shadow fleet ships to gaming controllers used to control drones. We now have the most extensive sanctions ever, weakening Russia’s war effort.

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In @trouw.nl: een ode aan #Kharkiv, dat drie jaar onder vuur ligt. Voor #DeVerdieping selecteerde en vertaalde ik een aantal van de dagelijkse impressies van Anna Gin, de lokale chroniqueur van de oorlog. Hoe het leven ondanks de raketten doorgaat. Beeld: Adriaan Backer www.trouw.nl/buitenland/e...

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BSW — the national sociali… no, can’t do that, the socialist #Putin fanclub — failed with 4.972% of the votes to clear the 5% hurdle. So there is cosmic justice.

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Russia's overheating economy is on the cusp of serious cooling, as huge fiscal stimulus, soaring interest rates, high inflation and Western sanctions take their toll, but after three years of war, Washington may just have thrown Moscow a lifeline reut.rs/4kaWNuG

submitted 2 days ago • 33 comments

Spot-on Siegfried Woldhek voor @nrcnl.bsky.social (en lees de vele verhalen die we vanaf 2016 over het Trump-Rusland-Oekraïne dossier publiceerden terug op de site)

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Every day, the goals become clearer: The point of DOGE is not efficiency, but regime change www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 3 days ago • 130 comments

Oekraïne-uitglijder Faber brengt Schoof in lastig parket, Kamer hekelt Kremlin-propaganda

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Second blackmail attempt by Trump failed? Zelensky is not yet ready to sign a mineral agreement with the USA, — Sky News It only contains unilateral commitments on the part of Ukraine.

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Morning Bluesky. Even the French Far Right are appalled by the rise of the Nazis in America.

submitted 4 days ago • 33 comments

The delivery of the first of 30 Belgian F-16s to Kyiv will be postponed for at least a year – until the end of 2025 – due to delays in the delivery of F-35 aircraft from the US to Belgium, – Chief of the Belgian General Staff Vansin. Does anyone doubt that Trump is responsible for this?

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Union chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz has called for talks with France and Great Britain for nuclear protection. "We need to talk to each other what it might look like," he said. Currently, Germany participates in NATO nuclear weapons sharing arrangements.

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'Verraden. Eerst Zelensky, binnenkort wij?' Nieuwe cover van de @spiegel.de.

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European leaders are working on a military aid package for Ukraine — worth at least €20 billion — to bolster Kyiv's negotiating position ahead of upcoming peace talks, three EU diplomats told POLITICO.

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The Supreme Court unanimously ruled against a group of Jewish Holocaust survivors, saying they could not sue Hungary in the U.S. to recover the proceeds of property stolen by its state-owned railway. The company robbed hundreds of thousands of Jews before sending them to Nazi death camps in 1944.

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Meanwhile, “Russia believes it is in conflict with what it calls ‘the collective West,’ and is acting accordingly, up to and including threatening us with nuclear attack and building up its military” from @wsj.com www.wsj.com/world/europe...

submitted 5 days ago • 73 comments

Republican senators were blindsided by President Trump lashing out at the president of Ukraine, an ally the U.S. has backed during three years of war.

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Europe should tighten its embargo on Russia even if America loosens sanctions. Europe should unilaterally exploit the €210bn of Russian cash frozen in European banks.That would pay for Ukraine to fight on or rearm as American funds dwindle. www.economist.com/leaders/2025... From The Economist

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Voor eerst sinds 86 jaar hangt toekomst Europa af van de Duitsers. Nu niet van één Duitser, maar van 60 miljoen Duitsers die zondag niet alleen antwoord kunnen geven op Amerikaanse regime change maar ook weg kunnen effenen voor 400 miljoen andere Europeanen. Column 👇 www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...?

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11 years

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Forget NATO. Forget the EU. A new coalition of nations is emerging to deal with the greatest security crisis to hit Europe in decades.

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While Trump is expressing his admiration for Putin—Putin’s army just bombed a children’s hospital in Odesa, Ukraine.

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Trump proving beyond a doubt he is working for Russia, is now openly attacking Zelenskyy and Ukraine after failing to blackmail them for trillions of dollars. Everyday Trump is president is a 100 years of shame and embarrassment for the United States.

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Trump managed to get John Bolton and Bernie Sanders to agree on foreign policy. Pretty incredible achievement.

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In zijn hallucinante persconferentie koos Trump de kant van #Rusland, de agressor, en verweet hij zowaar het slachtoffer, #Oekraïne, dat de oorlog al 3 jaar duurt. Hij bewijst dat hij niets kent van de situatie, maar dat doet niet terzake… www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

Imagine Mohammed bin Salman being the good guy in the room

submitted 7 days ago • 141 comments

Bannon taking the Igor Girkin role in the new administration:

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Campaigners urge F-35 fighter jet producing nations to stop supplying Israel

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I think it's the first case in human history where a nation fighting for its survival against a major aggressor is being forced—by a non-combatant partner—into paying Versailles-style reparations over military aid that had earlier been provided purposefully at no cost.

submitted 8 days ago • 121 comments

Maar tegen wie moeten wij dan volgens Wilders worden beschermd? Zijn vriend Poetin zal Nederland toch niet binnenvallen, daarvoor is Wilders veel te trouw aan hem. Toch?

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Precies 90 jaar speelde het Nederlands elftal een thuiswedstrijd tegen Duitsland. Binnen werd de Hitlergroet gebracht. Buiten werden demonstranten opgepakt vanwege dit pamflet, dat beledigend was voor het bevriende staatshoofd Hitler. Verhaal op sportgeschiedenis.nl/sporten/voet...

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COMMENTARY: At a time of intensifying great power competition, the EU has to choose between becoming a henchman of the US or breaking free to steer its own course. And it must decide quickly.

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Trump could be the president who finally defeated the biggest geopolitical adversary of the last 80 years, instead this administration seems insistent on becoming the ones who managed to lose the Cold War 35 years after it was won.

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Day 80 continuous. Large marches in Batumi, Tbilisi. This is Tbilisi, from Europe Square to Freedom Square, symbolically. If you thought the mood was going down, you were mistaken. The crisis won't be resolved without new, free and fair elections. #GeorgiaProtests 📷 Dato Koridze

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Just sent out this piece. Equating Trump to Neville Chamberlain is unfair on Chamberlain (and Daladier). Trump is actively trying to help and support Putin--that was not the case with appeasement. The policy failed, but it was different. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

submitted 12 days ago • 19 comments

De Russische staatsmedia, Poetins spreekbuis, hebben met de benoeming van deze hoofdredacteur👇nu definitief satelliettelevisie in Nederland. ongehoordnederland.tv/244175/persb...

submitted 12 days ago • 6 comments

In de Tweede Kamer moet je open van gedachten kunnen wisselen met, ik noem maar wat, VN-rapporteurs. Zeer kwalijk dat dit onmogelijk is gemaakt.

submitted 13 days ago • 13 comments

Weer in München, weer een gesprek tussen grootmachten over andermans gebied: de parallellen met 1938 dringen zich op bij bezorgde Europeanen. In Midden- en Oost-Europa is het cynische gedrag van de grootmachten vergeven noch vergeten. https://buff.ly/3ELYiPI

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The Kremlin-linked Donald Trump blackmailed Ukraine (again), threatening to withhold aid unless it provides him and his corporate oligarchs with $500B in rare earth material or equivalent contracts. Hours later he praised Russia. 90% of US Ukraine aid is already reimbursed before delivery. #OpCanary

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We shouldn't take anything off the table before the negotiations have even started. It is clear that any deal behind our backs will not work. You need the Europeans, you need the Ukrainians. Extracts from my doorstep ahead of NATO Defence Ministers meeting ↓

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Hi All, just released this piece on the Trump plan for Ukraine as outlined by Secdef Hegseth. Guess what, its the same bad plan for Ukraine that Trump people have outlined since last summer (arguably worse). Putin gets major concessions before the talks even start. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

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