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1913 || Niets is geheel waar, en zelfs dat niet.

[Yasmina @yasminalombaert]

Garry Kasparov unleashes the truth: putin’s war is pure survival, not strategy.

Garry Kasparov nails it: putin isn't some rational leader. He's a dictator obsessed with staying in power for 25 years and counting. This war? It's his life support, infecting every part of Russia. Forget ideology, he is a one-man mafia boss, desperate to project strength. He won't stop until he declares 'victory,' which he can't get, so he'll just keep expanding the war. He literally couldn't care less about how many Russians die as long as he controls Moscow and St. Petersburg.

Trump even offered him an 'out' twice, and putin rejected it because it would make him look weak - and weakness means the whole flock turns on him. He's even eyeing a test of NATO's Article 5 and hoping his far-right buddies take over Europe.
The West's slow reaction and constant reliance on America has just emboldened him.
Kasparov is right, the only thing that changes Russia is a Ukrainian victory, and fast.

Garry Kasparov: I hate starting to talk with criticism but this time I have to point out that your question basically repeated the same mistake in evaluation because you tried to analyze putin’s actions from the position of the responsible national leader.
Everything you said is absolutely correct.
vladimir's putin’s rule is devastating for Russia and I believe it will end to the collapse of the Russian Empire which is long overdue.
But vladimir putin’s calculations are not based on this rational thinking. His view is very different. He is in power for 25 years and counting. That’s all that matters for him. He’s a dictator and he works for one thing: only survival.

He’s still there. And the war has become the only way to keep him in power. War now is in every layer of Russian society, from the very top of the government to industries all the way down to kindergartens. It’s infected by the war virus and that's how putin stays in power.

Interviewer: So that makes him different from let's say Soviet leaders or or even some of the tsar’s right?

Again you should look at Soviet leaders based on the political momentum, just obviously Soviet leaders that we remember, you and me, so like Brezhnev, they had different calculations. But also don't forget the Soviet leaders after Stalin. They were ruling the country that had strong ideology and communist party.
I'm not here to advocate for the communist party or for any kind of ideology but there's a fundamental difference between the party rule which is a mafia structure and the one man dictatorship.
putin shifted Russia to a one man dictatorship where everything depends on an individual who is on the top of power, who becomes at certain time a spine of the whole system. And this system depends on his survival, demonstrating his strengths is to be a macho, to be an alpha, surrounded by other mafia bosses.
And that's why, you know, his current position today is, you may call it desperate, but I don't think he he sees it the same way.
He will continue the war as long as he has the resources. And this is something that the free world is just getting to understand. That was my main criticism to the west.

vladimir putin, for a long time was at open war, those were hybrid at the time with the free world.
And the free world, and especially Europe, was not willing to hear the messages, to see the messages and to respond accordingly.
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[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.

My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:

Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?

[Derk @DerkC7]

@Hvdn83 Dat heet in de volksmond ook wel een oude krant.

[Derk @DerkC7]

@RikElfrink Wel altijd heel veel aandacht voor deze gemiddeld jong speler geweest.

[Derk @DerkC7]

@hugologtenberg @nrc Sleets onderwerp - niets nieuws. We hadden en hebben wappies.

[Derk @DerkC7]

@noclador Nobody whines about murdered Hamas warriors. The world does for starved children, women, elderly people.
This kind of messages undermine your just takes on Ukraine. Love for your work on that matter.

[Derk @DerkC7]

@PWeert En wat gaan ze dan doen? Maken ze dat ook een beetje concreet. Iedereen ziet het scenario aankomen, maar hebben ze ook doorgerekende scenario's met oplossingen?

[Derk @DerkC7]

@PWeert En wat is het operationele verlies zonder CL maar met EL?

Kunnen we dat twee jaar volhouden?

Succes komt vaak in blokjes. Nu zit het bij ons weer 2 en hopelijk 3 of 4jaar mee. Maar dan zal Ajax en/of Feyenoord weer 2/3 jaar hebben. Met pech dus 4 jaar geen CL (geld).

[Derk @DerkC7]

@PWeert Gaf men ook een doorkijkje wat en hoe ze mogelijk mislopen CL gaan managen? En/of als we die tweede CL plek kwijtraken? Want dan wordt 2x CL per 3 jaar wel te onrealistisch om op te begroten.

[Derk @DerkC7]

@pietheinpeeters @OpaToivonen Een jong speler omdat er altijd ook één geblesseerd op de tribune zit ;)

[Derk @DerkC7]

@Niels_Sande @RikElfrink In welk universum zijn wij in staat om voor 20 miljoen gokjes voor de toekomst te kopen?
Je absolute topaankoop moet direct kunnen spelen én een meerwaarde zijn op het hoogsteniveau.
Bajraktarevic voor 3m kan een gokje voor de toekomst zijn en even beginnen in jong ofzo.

[Derk @DerkC7]

@Niels_Sande @RikElfrink Hij is onze absolute topaankoop. Geen speler voor jong voor er bij voor de toekomst. Meer schuld/fout Stewart dan van die jongen zelf natuurlijk.

[Derk @DerkC7]

@OpaToivonen Die eerste 20 minuten was pec gewoon beter ook.

Vol 1 op 1 over het hele veld, dan zijn we kwetsbaar. Pec kon het gelukkig niet blijven belopen.

[Derk @DerkC7]

@VI_nl @marcotimmer Arne Slot?

[Derk @DerkC7]

@Steven_S13 Nee hij is deze week niet helemaal fit gearriveerd.

[Derk @DerkC7]

@hcimtaa Wie?

[Derk @DerkC7]

@Steven_S13 @RoelofsMitchell Hij is wel fit, maar nog niet helemaal wedstrijdfit. Dat is pas na de kerst.

[Derk @DerkC7]

@RikElfrink 'Maar hij had wel doorgekund, ik besloot hem zelf uit voorzorg te wisselen' = kruisband weer weg en komt nooit meer terug op niveau.

[Derk @DerkC7]

@WesseiinhoV2 Niemand kan een man uitspelen