Diplomat @DutchMFA 🇳🇱🏳️🌈 | previously posted to the NL Embassy in 🇹🇷 and 🇬🇷 |
Athens, Greece
Joined February 2010
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As host nation and State Party, the Netherlands stands behind the International Criminal Court and its staff. International courts must be able to carry out their mandate without interference.
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Sorry Mr. President, but that’s not how NATO works. Let help you out. 1/
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.@POTUS: "This was a test for NATO... if you don't [help us] we're going to remember."
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When USA invoked article 5 after 9/11 events every member of NATO helped US.
NATO is defensive alliance. US started unprovoked attack on Iran therefore NATO articles does not apply.
nato.int/en/what-we-do/…
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In the dramatic circumstances of war, information must guard against the risk of turning into propaganda. It is every journalist's duty to verify the news, so as not to become a megaphone for power. They must show the suffering that war always brings to populations, which entails showing the face of war and recounting it through the eyes of victims.
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NATO countries with the highest soldier losses per capita in Afghanistan (2001–2021):
1️⃣ Denmark 🇩🇰
2️⃣ United Kingdom 🇬🇧
3️⃣ Estonia 🇪🇪
4️⃣ Canada 🇨🇦
5️⃣ United States 🇺🇸
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BREAKING: In a stunning moment, French President Emmanuel Macron just delivered the most powerful rebuke of Donald Trump we've seen yet. This is incredible.
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Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, open sea lanes, a stable financial system, collective security ... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition ... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "
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🧵/ Times Charlie Kirk directly called for, supported, organized, and/or financed political violence, a thread with receipts:
Here's Charlie Kirk calling for the killing of Joe Biden
mediamatters.org/charlie-kir…
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Russian missile strike on Kryvyi Rih.
14 dead, five of them children. Over 50 people injured. The numbers continue to increase.
📹: parents by the body of their son. Russia killed him.
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📣 Some news about me:
Yesterday (Wednesday) I was detained by police in Istanbul, held for 17 hours and then deported from Turkey to the UK. Told I was “a threat to public order”. In the country I lived in - and love.
Journalism is not a crime.
Here’s the BBC’s statement:
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BBC's Mark Lowen deported from Turkey after covering protests bbc.in/3RncTUR
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Even een draadje over de Lentekriebels, want het conservatieve smaldeel van Nederland is alweer druk bezig met bashen en demoniseren. En dat is gevaarlijk, want kennis en weerbaarheid zijn essentieel #Lentekriebels
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It’s even worse than I thought, they texted a deceitful and highly discredited journalist with top secret war plans.
. @SecDef response to the @TheAtlantic article….
“You’re talking about a deceitful and highly discredited “so-called journalist”
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A spokesperson for the National Security Council, Brian Hughes, confirmed the authenticity of the group chat to which Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, was inadvertently added.
x.com/JenGriffinFNC/…
nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna1…
usatoday.com/story/news/pol…
reuters.com/world/us/top-t…
lemonde.fr/en/united-stat…
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“Canada isn’t a real country”
“Ukraine isn’t a real country”
Remember, these false narratives are being pushed by the very same people that told us over and over again that the sovereignty of nations was more important than anything else in the world.
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Witkoff, the main negotiator of the ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia, decided to have a chat with pro-Russia shill Tucker Carlson. This is embarrassing on so many levels - let's break them down:
- Witkoff can't even remember the names of the Ukrainian oblasts (Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, and Crimea) that Putin wants.
- He then uses the Russian name (Lugansk) for one of them.
- He cites a sham vote organized by the FSB as "evidence" that people in these regions want to join Russia.
- Witkoff also fails to mention that Russia doesn't even have full de facto control of these regions.
It's deeply concerning that someone who is supposed to be a neutral negotiator between two warring countries is siding with the aggressor and spreading their propaganda.
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More than five years ago, I wrote about the US conservatives who admire Russia dictatorship. Now they run America theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv…
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Zwitserland voelt zich ernstig bedreigd: ‘Bijna geheel omringd door de NAVO’ speld.nl/2023/04/08/zwitserl…
Slowly migrating to the other place amidst the increasing lunacy of this platform. Find me on ceesvanbeek.bsky.social.
