Mattias Creffier

Serving the Belgian public since 2008 @BelgiumMFA Deputy Head of Mission @BelgiuminWarsaw, ex @BelgiumRwanda

[Bart 🌊⚓️ @BartGonnissen]

Lukaku crossing the Delaware

[Belgian Red Devils @BelRedDevils]

Overturn this. 🧏‍♂️ #USABEL

[Belgian Red Devils @BelRedDevils]

RBFA Statement on FIFA Appeal Committee Decision

https://t.co/Fh8SmNwYZe

[Sophia Cai @SophiaCai99]

FULL timeline of the campaign to bring Balogun back, according to a half dozen U.S. government & soccer officials:
- Wednesday after U.S.-Bosnia match: Andrew Giuliani alerted Trump to the red card (Trump & Giuliani had been talking multiple times/week since start of World Cup and regularly before that.)
- Wed night: Giuliani, Lutnick and U.S. Soccer officials began activating on plans to challenge red card
- That kicked off 4 days of coordinated lobbying, legal maneuvering & diplomacy that stretched from Oval Office to Zurich
- On *Thursday* Trump dialed Gianni Infantino and asked abt FIFA’s rules around the red card decision and grounds for suspension. (They’ve known each other for 8 yrs.)
- FIFA declined to confirm any specific discussions but reiterated to POLITICO that the decision to suspend the one-match ban was made by an independent disciplinary committee.
- As U.S. Soccer’s legal team formally prepared & submitted its appeal to FIFA, Giuliani + Lutnick offered to make White House attorneys available to assist
- At the same time, Giuliani and Scott Goodwin — a hedge-fund manager who had helped pay the salary of Mauricio Pochettino — zeroed in on the officiating history of referee Raphael Claus
-Articles examining previous controversies involving Claus circulated among senior gov officials as they evaluated every argument that could bolster the appeal
- On FIFA side, Emilio García, who oversees the legal affairs of FIFA, advised Infantino on the available procedural options
- García + other FIFA officials worked to determine whether the circumstances of Balogun’s tackle met the narrow standards that would allow the disciplinary decision to be revisited
- By Sunday, FIFA announced that Balogun’s one-match suspension would be suspended
- FIFA insists that the decision was an independent one made by its 18-person disciplinary committee, but it would not say whether the decision was decided through a vote, and it has not published a report on the decision.

https://t.co/eXOOUkza6N

[Belgian Red Devils @BelRedDevils]

RBFA STATEMENT UPDATE

Following its previous statement, the RBFA wishes to publicly explain the events of the past few hours. Read it here: https://t.co/uLYfwn22G4

[Bosnian Football @BosniaNTBall]

If FIFA want to stay consistent with their statutes, suspension of the United States Federation and team from the World Cup for political interference should follow! #FIFAWorldCup

[PitBackle @PitBackle]

We didn't win against Iran but at least it didn't cost us 300 billion USD. 🤷‍♂️

[Maxime PREVOT @prevotmaxime]

These allegations are false and completely unfounded. There has been no transfer of arms from Belgium to Burundi.

Unfortunately, this kind of disinformation is not new. It mainly serves the interests of those who seek to fuel tensions — whether between Belgium and Rwanda or more broadly across the region — and to undermine ongoing efforts toward dialogue and peace. I therefore urge everyone not to fall into this trap.

Belgium’s position remains clear and consistent: there is no military solution to the conflict in eastern DRC. The only viable and sustainable way forward is a political one, based on dialogue and the negotiation of an inclusive and lasting peace.

@RealMumbogo_S

[Maxime PREVOT @prevotmaxime]

🇷🇼 (EN/FR/NL)🕯️ On 7 April, we honour the memory of the victims of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.
It is our shared responsibility to ensure that such atrocities are never repeated.
🇧🇪 Belgium remains firmly committed to its duty of remembrance, and to the fight against impunity and negationism — a fight that, sadly, is never truly over.
🕊️ We also pay tribute to the ten Belgian paracommandos cowardly murdered in Kigali in 1994 while serving the cause of peace.

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🕯️Le 7 avril, nous honorons la mémoire des victimes du génocide contre les Tutsis en 1994 au Rwanda.
Notre responsabilité commune est de veiller à ce que de telles atrocités ne puissent jamais se reproduire.
🇧🇪 La Belgique demeure résolue dans le devoir de mémoire, la lutte contre l’impunité et contre le négationnisme – un combat qui n’est malheureusement jamais achevé.
🕊️ Nous rendons également hommage aux dix paracommandos belges lâchement assassinés à Kigali en 1994 alors qu’ils étaient au service de la paix.

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🕯️ Op 7 april herdenken wij de slachtoffers van de genocide op de Tutsi’s in Rwanda in 1994.
Het is onze gezamenlijke verantwoordelijkheid ervoor te zorgen dat dergelijke wreedheden zich nooit meer kunnen herhalen.
🇧🇪 België blijft vastberaden in zijn plicht tot herinnering, in de strijd tegen straffeloosheid en negationisme – een strijd die helaas nooit volledig voltooid is.
🕊️ Wij brengen ook hulde aan de tien Belgische paracommando’s die in 1994 in Kigali lafhartig werden vermoord terwijl zij hun vredesmissie vervulden.

@BelgiumMFA

[Oleksandr Yakovenko @alex_chenkov]

Dear Mr. Armin Papperger, CEO of Rheinmetall,

When you referred to Ukrainian drone manufacturers as “Ukrainian housewives with 3D printers” you revealed just how deeply the European defense establishment still fails to understand the nature of modern warfare.

This is not about emotion. It is about battlefield reality. Here are the facts your industry refuses to acknowledge:

In 2025 alone, Ukrainian drones carried out 819,737 confirmed strikes. They caused 90 percent of all Russian combat losses, more than all other weapons systems combined.

TAF alone produces up to 100к FPV drones monthly. In any given 90-day period, my company’s products alone achieve more confirmed strikes than your entire fleet of equipment has across its full combat history in every conflict. And most importantly, I built this company and achieved these results in two years, not fifty. Think about that.

Our drones generate more kinetic effect in three months than your flagship platforms have in half a century.

Why? Because the battlefield has changed, and your business model has not.
•Russian electronic warfare has made GPS-guided Western munitions such as Excalibur and GMLRS nearly ineffective.
•Expensive and complex systems designed for wars with air superiority and traditional peer-to-peer combat have become easy prey for drones costing $500, attacking them from above.
•The cost-to-effect ratio has been turned upside down: one 120 mm Rheinmetall shell or one anti-tank missile costs more than a dozen of our drones, and yet our drones still win.

This is not a “Lego game.” It is industrial Darwinism in real time. We iterate every week. We print parts in basements and ship 100к strike systems per month, while your engineers still require three to five years and hundreds of millions of euros in certification costs for even a minor upgrade.

The war in Ukraine is not a temporary anomaly. It is the first true drone-industrial war. And it has already proven that outdated European platforms, no matter how expensive or “serious” they may seem, are becoming less and less relevant unless they integrate the very technologies you mock.

So when you say, “this is not innovation,” I hear something else: “We do not want to admit that the future is being written in Ukrainian workshops, not in Düsseldorf boardrooms.”

#MadeByHousewives is trending for a reason. Because these “housewives” destroy more enemy equipment every month than entire European armies do in full campaigns. And they do it while your industry continues to sell 20th-century solutions at 21st prices.

The invitation remains open, Mr. Papperger. Stop laughing at the kitchen table. Come and learn how tomorrow’s war is actually being fought. Because the next time someone asks, “Who needs tanks in the age of drones?”, the answer may be simpler than you think: Whoever still believes in 1979 will lose to whoever is building in 2026.

With respect, but with facts,
Oleksandr Yakovenko “Ukrainian housewives”
Founder TAF

[Maxime PREVOT @prevotmaxime]

Statement of the International Contact Group for the Great Lakes (ICG) on the situation in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) https://t.co/C1oAmjPSa3

[Mattias Creffier @MCreffier]

❤️@sikorskiradek “riposte Rado”

[Mario @PawlowskiMario]

When Poland’s Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski dismantled Trumpist, anti-Ukraine
& anti-NATO “realist” John Mearsheimer on China and Canada👀

[Maxime PREVOT @prevotmaxime]

🇨🇩 Extrêmement choqué des propos tenus aujourd’hui par le porte-parole de l’armée congolaise, le Général Ekenge, ciblant la communauté Tutsi.
C’est absolument indigne de la part d’un représentant officiel.
Je les condamne avec la plus grande fermeté. Tout discours de haine doit être rejeté en toutes circonstances.
La concorde nationale ne peut se construire que dans un esprit d’inclusion de toutes les communautés.

@BelgiumMFA @BelgiqueRDCongo

[Daractenus @Daractenus]

Much like JD Vance, Elon Musk and Bob, the Nascar fan from Alabama with some really strong opinions about European integration, I too have asked myself the age old question: "what has the EU ever done for us?" and decided to have a look at some of the latest countries to join.🧵

[Mattias Creffier @MCreffier]

High five 🙌🏽
#visitRwanda 🌋🦍

High-fiving gorilla scoops first prize at Comedy Wildlife Awards | CNN https://t.co/GgBH4g5peh

[Mattias Creffier @MCreffier]

Essential fallacies field guide. ☠️

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

The 10 most dangerous Logical Fallacies:

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[Mattias Creffier @MCreffier]

@rumilyrics Peaceful

[Mattias Creffier @MCreffier]

@_BarnyO A billiard table

[Mattias Creffier @MCreffier]

🙂

[Steve Wembi @wembi_steve]

#Rwanda 🇷🇼 _ #Belgium 🇧🇪 : “Je ne me rends pas à Kigali dans un cadre d'échanges bilatéraux entre la Belgique et le Rwanda, mais pour le sommet de la francophonie. La question s'est posée de savoir s'il est pertinent de me rendre dans un pays qui a décidé unilatéralement de rompre les relations diplomatiques. Il n'y a aucune raison que la Belgique se pénalise en se mettant en marge de la dynamique francophone mondiale. Nous avons toujours des compatriotes et des entreprises présents au Rwanda. Il n'y a donc pas d'intérêt à refuser une possibilité d'échange, même informelle. Il faut toujours maintenir le dialogue et les canaux ouverts” @prevotmaxime

[Mattias Creffier @MCreffier]

@albcontact En dat je ze nog lang mag lusten!