the144thObserver

Someone that is born, that is living and who will die. Life is short, make the most of it.

[the144thObserver @144thObserver]

@FranckenTheo Le problème de cette proposition c'est qu'elle ne resoud rien. Même en fermant l'aide aux migrant, ils vont qd même venir. Et on va se retrouver avec une augmentation de la violence pcq on aura des gens désespérés en rue...

[Theo Francken @FranckenTheo]

Beste mensen,

Amai, het imam-filmpje dat ik gisteren postte en dat van @PVelleAntiJihad kwam, heeft iets in gang gezet…

Meer dan een maand ná de feiten struikelden de Brusselse politici plots over elkaar om het zingen van koranverzen van op het spreekgestoelte van het Brussels parlement in strenge bewoordingen te veroordelen. En terecht, een parlement is geen moskee.

Versies

De versies lopen nogal uiteen. Volgens de parlementsvoorzitter gebeurde dit tijdens een standaardbezoek aan het parlement ‘en zo zijn er jaarlijks duizenden’. Maar de beelden tonen een echte huldigingsceremonie. De Pakistaanse imam werd gehuldigd en kreeg een medaille waarna hij de bühne besteeg om zijn ding te doen. Totaal geen alledaags bezoek, quoi.

Nawal miste de bal

De Brusselse staatssecretaris voor gelijke kansen (PS) Nawal Ben Hamou gaf de medaille, maar haar woordvoerder stelt nu dat ze de zaal verliet toen de man koranverzen begon te prevelen. Dat lijkt me niet evident net nadat je iemand gehuldigd hebt…

Al Ahzaab

En over de religieuze boodschap valt veel te vertellen. Hij bracht verzen 41-47 van de soera ‘Al Ahzaab’, de partijscharen, een soera die specifiek gericht is op ongelovigen en Joden, en dat in het hart van de Westerse democratie.

7/10

De soera is vernoemd naar de 20e aya. De bedoelde strijd is de Slag bij de Gracht in april 627, waarbij Mekkanen de stad Medina en de uit Mekka gevluchte profeet Mohammed belegerden. Tijdens de Slag bij de Gracht versloeg het leger van Mohammed de Mekkanen en de Joodse stam Banu Qurayza. Zij hadden ondanks eerdere afspraken met de moslims toch de zijde van Mekka gekozen. De moslims beschouwden dit echter als verraad en besloten de Joden te straffen. Naar schatting 700 Joodse krijgsgevangenen werden onthoofd. En daarover gaat Al Ahzaab. De link met 7/10 is manifest.

Boodschap

Kortom, het was geen onschuldig gebeuren. Van de 114 soera’s koos de Pakistaanse imam net deze. Het was een boodschap. De boodschap van de overwinning van de islam op de ongelovigen/het Westen. En een heel heldere boodschap tegen joden.

Onschuldig?

Sommigen beweren dat verzen 41-47 op zich onschuldig zijn. Het klopt dat deze voorzichtig geformuleerd zijn in vergelijking met andere verzen in de soera ‘Al Ahzaab’. Het is geen directe aanval, maar de boodschap is duidelijk.

Wat ik me dan afvraag, wie is die imam eigenlijk juist?

Hasan fan van Erdogan

De organisator van dit alles is het Brussels PS-kopstuk Hasan Koyuncu. Deze man staat bekend als een rabiate AKP’er en fan van Erdogan. Hij is ondervoorzitter van het Brussels parlement en wist dus perfect dat dit zwaar buiten de lijnen kleurde. Hij trekt in oktober de PS-lijst in Schaarbeek.

Kir bis

Net zoals zijn collega Emir Kir in Sint-Joost leeft hij bij de gratie van zijn oerconservatieve Turkse moslimstemmen. Kir ontving de grijze wolven met open armen op zijn gemeentehuis en werd uit de PS gezwierd. Als de PS consequent is zwieren ze dit heerschap er ook stante pede uit.

Het rot aan de kop

Het Westen staat onder druk van buitenuit, maar we mogen onze democratie ook niet van binnenuit laten ondermijnen. Het rotten aan de kop moet stoppen.

Quo vadis, Magnette?

Prettige dag, deel gerust, we blijven alert, altijd,

Theo

[the144thObserver @144thObserver]

@DedonderLudivin Depuis quand le ministre de la Défense se substitue-t-il au ministre des affaires étrangères pour la publication de tels messages ?

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

DUMB THINGS RUSSIA DID IN THE UKRAINE WAR

Sometimes we do not fully realize how stupid, absurd, delusional, and surreal the Russian war in Ukraine is.

We got so used to all those idiotic Kremlin statements, to Putin regressing into childhood and being not even able to explain what this war is even about (at a current moment), to mercenary armies of suicidal convicts and Russian neo-Nazis claiming to be "liberating" Ukraine from "Nazim" and at the same time denying Ukraine's very right to exist, that we often miss it out how many insanely mind-blowing things that history textbooks will be telling about this war in the future.

Here's my impromptu list of stupid things that happened to Russia or that have been done by Russia in its full-scale invasion of Ukraine since February 24, 2022.

It's far from complete, of course, given the fact that the Kremlin never ceases to amaze at hitting rock bottom.

So, over the last 19 months of this war, Russia:

- Managed to lose a submarine to a cruise missile, for the first time in human history.
- Lost its fleet flagship (for the first time since 1905), the biggest warship sunk since 1945, to a nation that has no navy.
- Lost at least 2,300 tanks by now (including some 1,000 during the February-March 2022 blitzkrieg), which is more than all tank forces of the UK, France, Germany, and Italy combined, and is comparable to the entire U.S. Army operational tank fleet.
- Exhausted its capabilities to the point of having to de-mothball T-62 and T-54/55 tanks that were of relevance around the Cuban Missile Crisis era.
- Managed to basically exhaust the gargantuan Soviet stockpile of artillery munitions (which was considered endless) due to insane over-expenditure that reached 60,000 rounds a day in Donbas in mid-2022.
- Was seriously expecting to conquer and occupy an unfriendly 40-million nation with a 150,000-strong invasion force.
- Plunged into full-swing fascism, a mass cult of territorial grabs, and militaristic hysteria under the Z-swastika while claiming to be ancestors of WWII victors.
- Had its troops digging dugouts in the highly contaminated soil of the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone.
- Was so successful that, 6 months after the invasion day, it had to declare mobilization for the first time since 1941 and 1914.
- Failed to score air supremacy despite obvious advantage over Ukraine's air force in quality and numbers
- Simply declared a 40-million European nation "Nazi" and thus entitled itself to eradicate and occupy it in a war of aggression.
- Had a daring landing operation at a strategic airfield that was supposed to be a crushing blow upon the Ukrainian capital but nonetheless failed on day 1.
- Lost up to two battalion tactical groups (!) to Ukrainian artillery while trying to cross a river in Donbas in May 2022
- Spent a month trying to break into Kyiv and then simply left, having failed the entire war's key axis, with its most elite forces severely degraded.
- As the world's second strongest military, it became dependent on Iranian supplies of kamikaze drones (and likely ballistic missiles) and begged North Korea to provide it with artillery munitions.
- Seriously believed Putin's kin Viktor Medvedchuk, who had spent years plundering the Kremlin money and telling cool stories on how Ukrainians were just dreaming of being part of Russia again.
- Had its regular military so insanely successful that it had to hastily pump up a "private military company" led by a catering tycoon (a former street criminal) and a neo-Nazi, which recruited masses of suicidal convicts and practiced ISIS-style executions on camera.
- As the world's second strongest military power, it re-introduced the phenomenon of "meat grinder assaults" in Europe in the year 2022.
- Spent hundreds of missiles to strip a 40-million European nation of electricity and heating in the dead of winter -- and failed.
- Occupied nuclear power plants and deployed military forces at their facilities -- for the first time in human history.
- Spent a year and lost tens of thousands of men fighting for the ruins of a mid-sized provincial town of Bakhmut (which it declared the new Stalingrad), the eventual capture of which resulted in no further progress at all and was quickly forgotten.
- Had its daily acts of nuclear blackmailing so overused that everyone eventually stopped paying attention.
- Had Putin ribbon-cutting a wonder wheel in Moscow during the disastrous defeat in Kharkiv Oblast and visiting a turkey farm in Tiumen following the withdrawal from Kherson.
- Unleashed the biggest European war since WWII and, after things went south, began whining about Ukraine not willing to have a "ceasefire" and a "deal in negotiations."
- Made the West wake up and provide Ukraine with weapons ranging from artillery to tanks, air defense, missiles, and now also jet fighters.
- Faced an armed rebellion by the "private military company" which easily captured a key Russian city, a key military HQ, and then moved towards Moscow, making Putin flee and ask for a deal.
- Despite all the bravado and megalomanic plans, after 19 months of a full-scale war, Russia occupies 18% of Ukraine's territory (including Donbas and Crimea seized in 2014), and it has lost some 50% of the Ukrainian territory seized after February 24, 2022.
- Unleashed the biggest European war since WWII due to "the NATO threat" in Ukraine but couldn't care less about Finland and Sweden joining the alliance - it's all just fine.
- Saw Ukrainian drone strikes on the Kremlin and Moscow becoming a new normal.
- Had Ukrainian-backed Russian armed nationalist groups crossing the border, capturing Russian towns, killing Russian troops, and leaving unpunished.
- Annexed entire Ukrainian regions it did not even fully control by simply formally declaring them Russian regions and having a gala concert at the Red Square. And left Kherson a month later.
- After a year of the war, lost at least as many troops as the U.S. had lost within a decade in Vietnam, making this the deadliest Russian war since WWII.
- Saw Putin break his word and assassinate the "private military company's" chiefs after they had stupidly believed they could have a deal with Putin.
- Committed atrocities in Bucha, Izium, and Mariupol, with mass graves, acts of torture, and executions seen in those lands for the first time since the Nazi occupation and called this "liberation".
- Saw The Hague court issue an arrest warrant for Putin on charges of war crimes.
- Had to leave Snake Island and then relocate its Black Sea fleet from Crimea to mainland Russia due to devastating Ukrainian attacks, effectively giving up on its control over the northwest Black Sea -- to a nation that has no navy.
- Easily exchanged the Mariupol garrison leaders, including insanely demonized Azov Regiment commanders, for no one but Viktor Medvedchuk -- and continued listening to his cool stories about Ukraine.
- Triggered the worst man-made disaster since the Chornobyl blast, the Kakhovka dam destruction, leaving swathes of Ukrainian land flooded, including Russia's own military facilities on the Dnipro River banks.
- Had its strategic bombers and transport aircraft destroyed on the ground by Ukraine at airfields hundreds of kilometers deep inside Russian territory.
- Prior to the 2022 invasion, Russia got Ukraine semi-surrounded with the largest military force seen in the region since the peak of the Cold War -- and then declared that Ukraine SUDDENLY decided to attack Russia and "the Russian people in Donbas." What a coincidence!
- Saw its much-advertised winter 2023 offensive (for the sake of which it had launched a large-scale mobilization) fail without any substantial progress.
- Made its online bootlickers act as if it's actually Ukraine that has failed with its 20-month blitzkrieg into Russia -- not kinda the other way around.
- Had this insanely hyped-up General Armageddon, the hammer of the Ukrainian doomsday who ended up only ceding Kherson, being discharged two months after and exiled following the Wagner coup.
- Still struggles to choose a certain end goal for its "special military operation" -- be it "de-militarization and de-Nazification of Ukraine," or "the fight against Satanism and the collective West," or "the protection of the people of Donbas," or "saving Russia and its civilization from losing its sovereignty and collapsing."
- During the disastrous withdrawal from Kharkiv, abandoned for Ukraine an amount of munitions and military hardware comparable to the entire Western supply by that moment.
- Rendered Donbas largely uninhabitable.
- Ruined the region's once-gigantic industrial base.
- Made millions flee in terror.
- Slaughtered tens of thousands of able-bodied Donbas males forcibly mobilized and then used as cannon fodder in meat grinder assaults.
- Leveled entire cities to ashes, with those cities very unlikely to be ever revived due to astronomical amounts of resources required and due to almost complete depopulation.
- And then proudly installed its flag over the lifeless ruins and called this "de-Nazification."

P.S. Those who knowingly endorse all those things that Russia did to Ukraine should quit calling themselves sane human beings.

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[the144thObserver @144thObserver]

@JasperPillen Il y a moyen de faire plus bourine que ça sur la photo? Quel manque de classe! On dirait "boma met de sakoche"

[Vincent Flibustier 👽 @vinceflibustier]

COUP DE GUEULE
À propos du nouveau cours d'éducation à la sexualité en 🇧🇪
#EVRAS

[the144thObserver @144thObserver]

@AlexSofamous Putain,le troll pro-ruscof...

[OpexNews @OpexNews]

🇫🇷 "Le #renseignement est l’arme du XXIe siècle."

Retour sur l'audition à huis clos du directeur de la #DGSE @BernardEmie sur le projet de #LPM 2024-30 devant la commission de la défense.

THREAD ⬇️

[Bram Spoor @EP_Spoor]

Got to kick-off the new master program Intelligence in War and Conflict by @BasRietjens at @ISGA_Hague The program is a great mix of theory and talks by practitioners. Met some eager students with good questions!

[Dave Troy @davetroy]

1/Putting this on record so that when we finally start talking about this seriously in 2032 or so, it will have been said:

The only way to halt or reverse America’s collapse is to institute national service as a norm.

Here’s why.

[the144thObserver @144thObserver]

@janneman_online @JasperPillen Blijven navelstaren en steeds verwijzen naar problemen van meer dan een eeuw geleden, gaan,in het licht van de globalisering, geen oplossingen bieden voor de uitdagingen die te wachten staan voor Vlaanderen. Nationalisme is passé, Brussel tweetalige regio. Eendracht maakt macht

[the144thObserver @144thObserver]

@PhilippeBoucke En espérant l'arrivée d'un autre cadre législatif et fiscal, et d'une structure de gestion efficace. Devoir prendre congé sans solde pour toucher à peine de quoi rembourser le carburant et attendre des mois pour le payement, le temps que qqun trouve le bon bouton sur HRM...

[Thomas C. Theiner @noclador]

All this doom mongering about how "difficult" it will be for Ukraine to breach the russian trenches in the South... people need to man up and do some military service before running their mouths like that.

A thread about offensive operations 🧵:
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[ChrisO_wiki @ChrisO_wiki]

1/ Many videos have been posted by mobilised Russians in the past month, complaining about the conditions they face in Russia's current offensive. Here's a deeper look at their complaints and a major new factor – the role of the Donetsk and Luhansk 'People's Republics'. ⬇️

[the144thObserver @144thObserver]

@clamantis_vox @Belgium_Sdt1986 @BelgiumDefence Ideeën, energie en veranderingen komen ter sluiten toch van de "ge auditeerde" firma.

[the144thObserver @144thObserver]

@clamantis_vox @Belgium_Sdt1986 @BelgiumDefence Een externe kijk op de zaken is nooit een slecht idee. Jammer genoeg , blijkt uit mijn ervaring dat "consultancy" bureaus vlug veel geld kosten (meerdere 100.000 EUR) voor vaak weinig impact. 1/x

[the144thObserver @144thObserver]

@Jerrav1966 @Belgium_Sdt1986 B2 is de basis vorming. Telt niet mee.

[the144thObserver @144thObserver]

@TheClepsydre @Belgium_Sdt1986 FYI, la limite d'âge pour l'inscription à l'ERM est de 34 ans. Mais il est vrai que pour, comme vous dites, gravir tous les échelons, ce sera difficile. Mais il y a quand même moyen de terminer au moins LCL. Pas si mal que ça il me semble...

[the144thObserver @144thObserver]

@Belgium_Sdt1986 @clamantis_vox @BelgiumDefence Ik vind het zeer jammer dat er zo simplistische theorien rondlopen over hoe een publieke administratie wel of niet zou moeten werken. Zou het juiste model en de oplossing bestaan, zou deze al lang geïmplementeerd zijn. Stop met denken dat iedereen behalve u idioten zijn...

[the144thObserver @144thObserver]

@Belgium_Sdt1986 @clamantis_vox @BelgiumDefence En wie zelf geen antwoord vind , begind zich te profileren als slachtoffer om de antwoorden te vermijden.