Machiel
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Machiel
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Dad, nerd, citizen. Stiekem fan van Lady Gaga en andere pop. Luistert doorgaans folk en LoFi
Washington reportedly proposed Russia end the killing and maximalist demands, Russia said it will fight ‘to the last Ukrainian’.
🇺🇸🇷🇺 US envoy Steve Witkoff heads to Moscow today to discuss a potential peace deal with Putin, after talks in Florida. Washington reportedly proposed Ukrainian withdrawal from Donbas, Ukraine rejected it. As of now, no final agreement exists. Discussions covered various subjects.
December 1, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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🇨🇳⚔️ Chinese businessman helps Russians kill Ukrainians - FT

Businessman Wang Dinghua is listed as the owner of 5% of the shares of the company "Rustakt". The company is the manufacturer of the FPV drone VT-40.
December 1, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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Gevoelige gegevens van het ministerie van Justitie, het Openbaar Ministerie en de rechtspraak vallen binnenkort mogelijk in Amerikaanse handen. Dit komt door de aanstaande overname van de IT-dienstverlener achter DigiD. En dat zou onze digitale veiligheid flink in gevaar kunnen brengen.
Niet alleen DigiD: ook geheime info rechtspraak en Justitie in geding bij overname IT-leverancier
Er is onrust ontstaan over de aangekondigde overname van IT-dienstverlener Solvinity – leverancier van DigiD – door een Amerikaans bedrijf. Door de systemen van Solvinity lopen uiterst gevoelige data ...
www.ftm.nl
December 1, 2025 at 7:54 AM
No diplomat would ever put “US gets 50% of reconstruction profits” in a peace agreement. It’s grotesque. It reveals the entire frame: this is a transaction, not a settlement. Ukraine is the distressed asset being divided between buyers.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ #ukraine
November 30, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Op bezoek in #spaceExpo in Noordwijk. Dramatisch om te zien hoezeer Europa en Rusland innige samenwerking hadden met ISS.
November 30, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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“For 4 years, Ukraine has been fighting for the whole of Europe. NATO was created to fight one war … to save free Europe from Russian aggression. Ukraine is the only country that is fighting this war, and we are still discussing should we include them or not.”

- Garry Kasparov
November 29, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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The reason the top 10% of income earners pay more than half of all tax revenue is NOT because they are taxed more than ever.

Their tax rate has been cut FIVE times in the last 25 years.

They are paying more because their INCOME has increased astronomically, where the income of the bottom half has
November 29, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Things that were declared woke in 2025:
- democracy
- rule of law
- constitutions
- peace preserving traditions
- fighting for national sovereignty
- diplomacy
- turkey
November 29, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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This is the war he wants for oil, and to cancel the midterms…. 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
November 28, 2025 at 2:21 AM
There are 2 peace shows competing for ratings coming out of the White House. This infighting is a known pattern in Trump management style. #ukraine
November 29, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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I think this decision is wrong.

Hundreds of Ukrainian athletes will never be able to compete because they gave their lives defending Ukraine against Russia's war of aggression.
Source: ijf.org/news/show/spor…
November 28, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Ukraine doesn’t need this ‘peace show’ it needs courage and supplies.
November 28, 2025 at 3:03 PM
The insistence on land recognition when it solves nothing is the tell that this isn’t a negotiation - it’s either theater or a humiliation ritual.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ #ukraine #russia
November 27, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Oekraïne vecht niet alleen voor haar eigen vrijheid, maar voor de vrijheid van ons allemaal.
En Oekraïne heeft daarom onze steun nodig. Nu, maar ook volgend jaar.
Daarom dienen wij een motie in om ervoor te zorgen dat Oekraïne zich kan blijven verdedigen tegen de Russische agressie.
November 26, 2025 at 2:48 PM
The 'rumours' about progress and one side accepting already are all fake news trying to portray the other side of being the problem (Russia). No serious negotiation would leak information mid-process. abcnews.go.com/Politics/us-...
US official says Ukrainian delegation has agreed with US on terms of potential peace deal
The U.S. has held secret talks in Abu Dhabi with a Russian delegation to discuss a Ukraine peace proposal.
abcnews.go.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Budapester Memorandum 1994
Die Ukraine gibt ihre Atomwaffen zugunsten der Sicherheitsgarantien der USA auf
#Trump is a traitor
#Ukraine
November 22, 2025 at 11:44 AM
De EU wordt vaak verweten niet met 1 mond te spreken. De VS kan zelfs niet 1 lijn trekken binnen het Witte Huis www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
White House claims ‘tremendous progress’ made in Ukraine-Russia peace plan but says more talks needed - Europe live
Spokesperson says sensitive issues still need to be discussed between Ukraine, Russia and the US
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The #Ukraine so called peace-plan is a first step towards breaking the will of Ukraine. Having to adopt Russian as a state language, handing over long rage weapons and never joining NATO is pure psychological game to make Ukraine vulnerable and isolated.
November 23, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Ik snap niet dat er niet meer Joden zijn die hun hand opsteken bij deze term. Het antisemitisme in Nederland was een eeuw geleden en daarvoor endemisch.
Theoloog hier. Er is niet zoiets als een joods-christelijke cultuur. Die term is bedacht als propaganda om Amerikanen te motiveren om ook in Europa te vechten in WO2. Tegenwoordig is het ook propaganda, maar dan anti-islamitisch. Ik zal dit blijven herhalen.
Ik begrijp niet waarom Segers met Duk in discussie wil. In de regel steun ik het idee dat je in een democratie met iedereen in discussie moet gaan, juist met mensen waar je het mee oneens bent. Echter, actoren die desinformatie en haat in het publieke debat pompen, diskwalificeren zichzelf.
November 23, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Design your first products as throw-away.
Let’s talk about “Move fast and break things.” First of all, Facebook itself changed its motto to “Move fast with stable infrastructure” in 2014. So much for breaking things, at least if you’re a soulless corporate behemoth.
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November 23, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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I stand by Zelenskyy like never before
November 23, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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The Moscow Times: „The very emergence of such a U.S. initiative signals, in Putin’s view, that Washington is capitulating. And capitulating not because it has suffered losses — it has lost neither tanks nor aircraft nor soldiers — but because it is tired,frightened and eager to avoid involvement.“
November 22, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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3/3 Intussen is de enorme milieuschade als gevolg van de mestfraude kennelijk gewoon doorgegaan. Waterschappen investeren vele miljoenen in betere waterkwaliteit. Maar dit is natuurlijk dweilen met de kraan open.

Nog wat meer bezuinigen op toezicht. Want ja, toezicht vinden ondernemers niet fijn.
November 21, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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We have a US administration trying to bully Ukrainians into accepting Russia’s proposal that their sovereignty be undone. Aside from the naked injustice of this, there are five basic practical reasons why it would make the world far more dangerous.
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snyder.substack.com/p/the-putin-...
The Putin-Witkoff Plan Worsens the War
Five Reasons the US should not help Russia subjugate Ukraine
snyder.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Completely agree.
The fates of Ukraine and Europe are linked.
European security system will be destroyed without Ukraine.
November 21, 2025 at 5:09 PM