Merwin

Founder of Mendeleo.

[Merwin @Merwin_Feitsma]

@ewaldeng Deze waarheid komt niet uit wijsheid, maar uit opportunisme. Alsnog een waarheid.

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Wie heeft er white noise nodig om in slaap te vallen als je ook naar het voetbalcommentaar van de NOS kunt luisteren?

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@DefensieMin Dit geslijm is gênant. De NAVO is een instrument van Washington om de Europese politiek te sturen. De VS naaien Europa en de VVD is het glijmiddel.

[Merwin @Merwin_Feitsma]

@ministerBZ Sancties werken helemaal niet. Nooit gedaan ook. Het schaadt de Europese en Russische bevolking. Houd ermee op.

[Merwin @Merwin_Feitsma]

Iran and the US are doing a staring contest and Israel is throwing some pepper around. My guess: the US will blink first and might create a distraction (Cuba?) when they back off.

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Fantastisch nieuws.

[TW.nl @TWdigitaal]

In Eindhoven wordt een nieuwe kernreactor getest die gesmolten zout gebruikt en in de toekomst stroom kan leveren voor 250.000 huishoudens. De technologie moet kernenergie veiliger en efficiënter maken.
https://t.co/WRl28mrX43

[Merwin @Merwin_Feitsma]

@geenstijl Ons ministerie van Defensie is helemaal de weg kwijt. Letterlijk. Blijf lekker bij de Waddeneilanden of desnoods de Caribische eilanden.

[Merwin @Merwin_Feitsma]

@MyLordBebo We took last Monday off.

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De nieuwste banger van Piter Wilkens komt geheid in het rijtje klassiekers van de Liwwadder Blues en De Oudste Stapper: https://t.co/nXHlw8Q1gx

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Na de economie maakt onze oorlogszucht ook onze natuur kapot vanwege een zelfgemaakte dreiging vanuit Rusland.

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@MinPres Prima intenties, maar enkele punten uit de huidige koers moeten drastisch herzien worden om rampspoed te voorkomen.

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@MinPres Meer geld, meer wapens, meer verwoesting, meer doden. Europeanen betalen en Oekraïners sterven.

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@NUnl Een slag tegen Europa, want die vangt de klap op.

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@Rob_Roos @SecGenNATO Niet Rutte, maar Washington. Rutte is slechts daddy's loopjongen.

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@ADnl Gaan we spijt van krijgen

[Merwin @Merwin_Feitsma]

'Huge, if true' was rarely more applicable. Not surprising though.

[Sulaiman Ahmed @ShaykhSulaiman]

CEASEFIRE UPDATE: IRAN-U.S DRAFT PROPOSAL

✅ Iran agrees to a 15-year enrichment suspension, with the exception of research reactors for medical isotopes.

✅ Iran’s stockpile of 60% and 20% uranium would be partially converted to reactor fuel, and partially ‘downblended’ to a lower enrichment level. However, it won’t leave Iran.

✅ Full IAEA supervison on Iran’s nuclear sites.

✅ Opening the Strait of Hormuz, with the possibility of collecting tolls.

✅ The U.S. will offer Iran phased sanctions relief

✅ The U.S. will unfreeze all Iranian assets currently frozen abroad, amounting to $20 Billion or more.

✅ The U.S. will commit to a non-aggression pact with Iran that is ensured through a UN National Security Council resolution and a treaty ratified by Congress.

✅ The U.S. will withdraw all its military forces from the Persian Gulf.

Source: Amit Segal Israel Channel 12

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

We are told that security in the Middle East requires defeating Iran, security in East Asia requires defeating China, and security in Europe requires defeating Russia. We never discuss security in terms of how to learn to live together by harmonising interests and managing competition. This is by design. This is hegemonic peace, in which security depends on defeating rivals rather than managing a balance of power.

Subsequently, security relies solely on deterrence rather than reassurance; diplomacy is dismissed as appeasement; peace agreements are temporary and deceptive; and war is peace. Our rivals do not have legitimate security concerns, as their policies are allegedly always motivated by aggressive, irrational, or expansionist behaviour.

We have convinced ourselves that our liberal hegemony is a force for good, and that our opponents oppose our dominance because they reject our benign values of freedom. Discussing the security concerns of adversaries is believed to “legitimise” their policies, which is treasonous. The world is divided into good guys (liberal democracies) and bad guys (autocracies). We should not ask how defeating Russia, as the world's largest nuclear power, is a rational security strategy, or why our governments refuse to even speak with Moscow to discuss the European security architecture and end the war. Our governments have relabelled nuclear deterrence as nuclear blackmail to signal that there can be no more constraints.

All empires can become irrational during decline. Leaders take greater risks to avoid decline, legitimacy crises at home must be distracted with enemies abroad, outdated strategies from a bygone era of strength are still embraced, and there is a tendency to double down on narratives of being indispensable, representing universal values, and dismissing all opposition as illegitimate and dangerous. Are we the fanatics?

[Merwin @Merwin_Feitsma]

@theepicmap That would have been way more difficult: the waters are deeper and the currents are very strong.

[Merwin @Merwin_Feitsma]

@SebasToutt @theepicmap They didn't care about that back in the day. The Afsluitdijk wiped out one of the five species of herring in the world.

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Goh, wat een verrassing. De wekenlange droneterreur, die plotseling ophield, bleek in België propaganda te zijn. Gelukkig zijn de Nederlandse media daar destijds niet ingetrapt.

[Ewald Engelen @ewaldeng]

Belgische defensieminister in opspraak na Pano-onthullingen over ‘spookdrones’ https://t.co/tKez4zzs6h via @dronewatchnl
Er waren geen drones, er waren geen russen, er was alleen maar angstzaaien