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Resharing this from Dutch cartoonist Siegfried Woldhek with the correct url www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/... www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

submitted 4 hours ago • 1 comment

Siegfried Woldhek in the Dutch paper NRC.nl (for some reason cartoon seems unfindable via search on their website)

submitted 4 hours ago • 6 comments

Bulgarian cleaner was playing this Conway Twitty-Joni Lee number on her phone. I think I preferred the storyline in the original “Eugene Onegin” version open.spotify.com/track/2JtwgQ...

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

Absolutely the easiest and best bang-for-buck sustainable strategic-multiplier thing Europe can do in the security realm is to buy Ukrainian-made weapons and invest in the development of Ukraine’s defense industry. 1/

submitted 6 hours ago • 5 comments

Dreamed I was watching a guy trapped by a sadistic gangster in a pen that gave him enough freedom to try various means of escape, none of which could actually work, as he waited to be killed

submitted 7 hours ago • 2 comments

Why would Mussayev suddenly come out and say this now? bylinetimes.com/2025/02/21/d...

submitted 7 hours ago • 11 comments

Germany selling out to Russia over Nordstream was self-sabotage but it had a logic: Russia had cheap gas that Germany could use. The US turning towards Russia is mad. The US is the world’s biggest oil and gas producer. What does Russia have that America needs?

submitted 8 hours ago • 43 comments

Still entirely unclear from contradictory reporting if Trump is offering to sell Zelenskyy military assistance in exchange for mining rights, or demanding mining rights as retroactive repayment for past US assistance that will now be cut off forever.

submitted 8 hours ago • 23 comments

This is very, very bad. Am working on a write-up, but let’s just say that firing military leaders for blatantly political reasons is wildly inappropriate; firing all the too lawyers is ominous; firing them all at the same time is a terrifying five-alarm fire

submitted 14 hours ago • 99 comments

If Donald Trump found the destiny of America lying in the gutter he would be far too germaphobic to pick it up with his bare hands

submitted 18 hours ago • 3 comments

i dont know if people are catching it but uh… the destiny in the gutter comment is another napoleon allusion

submitted 18 hours ago • 7 comments

Princess Nokia did the hip hop cowboy thing a year before Beyoncé and she did it better

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

I repeat: Article Five is not worth much under these people. Act accordingly. “Vance on Thursday night suggested that the Trump admin could reconsider its military presence in Germany, tying continued…defense commitments to Berlin’s stance on free speech” www.politico.eu/article/vanc...

submitted 1 day ago • 38 comments

Fascinerend hoe deze MAGA-activisten de styling van het Romeinse keizerschap inzetten om een soort nieuwe Romeinse dictatuur te bepleiten.

submitted 20 hours ago • 21 comments