Simon Poldervink
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Simon Poldervink
@simonpoldervink.bsky.social
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Sailor, Engineer, Father and a concerned European citizen.
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There it is: staatspersbureau van het Kremlin zegt dat de verkiezingen in NL geen level playing field hadden voor Wilders en dat de "deep state" gewonnen heeft. Onzin van Wilders over fraude moet je niet los zien van wat zijn broodheren in Moskou roepen.
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#Ukrainian Defender Roman was taken into Russian captivity on February 24, 2022, at Chornobyl NPP.

Roman is finally home and was able to hug his kids.

His eldest son couldn't stop crying with joy. What the family has lived through in these 3,5 years...

📹: serhii_nuzhnenko
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French military personnel have boarded an oil tanker Boracay, which is named on a list of "shadow fleet" ships and is suspected of involvement in drone activity that forced the closure of airports in Denmark last week.
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DRONES OVER DENMARK: French authorities tell us at TV 2 that the vessel Pushpa aka Boracay is under investigation for “lack of documentation on nationality/flag” and “refusal to follow orders.” Any link to Denmark’s drone incidents remains unknown.
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🚢 The commercial shipbuilding tonnage built by the (admittedly very large) conglomerate 🇨🇳 CSSC in the year of 2024 was larger than ALL 🇺🇸 US commercial shipbuilding since 1945. Let that sink in.
"Just one Chinese firm, the state-owned juggernaut China State Shipbuilding Corporation, built more commercial vessels by tonnage in 2024 than the entire U.S. shipbuilding industry has built since the end of World War II," writes CSIS Hidden Reach.

Read more: www.csis.org/analysis/are...
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It seems to be the #Minervagracht, hit by a ballistic missile and sinking.

@vesselspotter.bsky.social
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Would push back here — the collapse in public finances in Ingolstadt is because corporate tax revenues are dwindling, and Ingolstadt is a car city.

Germany losing 50% of its net car exports to China is the culprit, not “the green economic wonder” or some such.
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The pro-EU Party of Action & Solidarity has crushed the pro-Russia Patriotic Electoral Bloc in the Moldovan election.

It won 51 seats - an outright majority.

Moldova is now on a trajectory towards EU membership.

A very bad night for Putin, who targeted Moldova with a wave of election propaganda.
Lets not forget that sucking up should never become the long term strategy.
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This chart from Rush Doshi is one of the most important in the world - from his great NYT oped.

Too bad the US president does not get it.
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Well done Germany.
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Excellent!

“Counting U.S.-led buys on the list … the total comes to about €6.8 billion, around 8 percent of Berlin’s plan, with the rest overwhelmingly going to European industry.”

www.politico.eu/article/germ...
Germany’s €80B rearmament plan sidelines US weapons
A procurement plan obtained by POLITICO shows Berlin’s rearmament spree will overwhelmingly benefit European industry.
www.politico.eu
Wat zou in dit geval een logische volgende escalatie zijn van Rusland? Zou dit beperkt worden tot verdere uitbreiding van de sabotage etc. Of een directe militaire aanval op een Navo doel? Heeft Europa de middelen om op die escalatie weer te reageren?
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"Inmiddels zijn we bijna drie decennia verder [sinds Fortuyns beweringen] en het aantal moslims in Nederland schommelt al sinds 2000 rond de 5 procent. Je gaat je zo langzamerhand toch afvragen wanneer we nou eindelijk die islamisering eens krijgen, die ons al dertig jaar wordt beloofd."
Lezersbrieven: Waar blijft die beloofde islamisering van Nederland?
Lezersbrieven: Waar blijft die beloofde islamisering van Nederland?
www.volkskrant.nl
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Danish (maritime) pilots have warned the Danish authorities, that the shadow fleet “carry extra crew in military fatigues, present on the bridge and are vey actively photographing (among other things, passage under bridges)”.

Great reporting by @danwatch.dk @jakobbohr.bsky.social
Der har været flere episoder herhjemme, hvor uniformeret personel på den russiske skyggeflåde har udspioneret på kritisk infrastruktur. Det afslører en intern mail fra den statslige lodsvirksomhed DanPilot. Læs 👉 https://danwatch.dk/?p=40570
Of als het waterpeil omlaag moet…
“De overheid moet van mn erf blijven.” Tenzij ze die kruiwagens vol subsidies komen brengen zeker?
Humanity is just stuck in an endless loops of trying to find solutions to complex problems caused by the solutions to the previous (often less complex) problems.
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"DELVIKA" - false flagged Malawi 🇲🇼🏴‍☠️

Passing under the Great Belt Bridge, loaded with Crude in Ust-Luga.

Embarrassed to have lost track of how many false flagged ships we have failed to stop, after @lars-loekke.bsky.social gathered the European leaders to agree to do so.

sketchy.boats/9402471
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Dag 1244 van de oorlog. En we denken nog steeds dat sancties wel zullen werken…
Zeker negentig olietankers bevaren de wereldzeeën onder valse vlaggen van Sint Maarten, Aruba of Curaçao. Zo kunnen ze ongezien olie vervoeren uit Iran en Rusland, en internationale sancties ontwijken. Elke lading is tientallen miljoenen waard. www.ftm.nl/artikelen/sc...
Caribisch Nederland dient als thuishaven voor tankers met olie uit Rusland en Iran
Westerse autoriteiten slagen er niet in de olie-export van Rusland en Iran aan banden te leggen. Met een ‘schaduwvloot’ van tankers omzeilen ze het sanctieregime – en steeds vaker letterlijk onder val...
www.ftm.nl
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❗️🇺🇦Ukrainian farmers harvest grain just 13 km from the front line under 🇷🇺Russian airstrikes. Donetsk region