Niels van de Geest

Live your life on your own terms!

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

For years, Canada sent 70 cents of every defence dollar straight to the United States. Mark Carney just told Parliament that stops now. The room gave him a standing ovation.

It is a striking thing to get a standing ovation for announcing that your country will stop subsidising someone else’s arms industry. But that is where Canada is in 2025.

Carney’s case is blunt: the United States is “beginning to monetize its hegemony, charging for access to its markets and reducing its relative contributions to collective security.” 

And MAGA is celebrating. Winning. Always winning. USA, USA. Somewhere a man in a red hat is pumping his fist.

Let me explain what is actually happening, because clearly no one has bothered.

In ten months, the United States has torched eighty years of alliance architecture that its own soldiers, diplomats and taxpayers built from the rubble of the Second World War. Eighty years. Gone. Detonated, with a smile, by people who genuinely believe this is genius.

Canada is not drifting away. Canada is leaving. Europe is not hedging. Europe is building a defence industry specifically designed to cut Washington out. Allies are not quietly grumbling over dinner. They are signing contracts with other people.
And the MAGA faithful are cheering every single step of it, because someone told them this is what dominance looks like.

It is not dominance. It is a man burning down his own house and whooping at the flames. The saddest part is not that America is losing its allies. The saddest part is that half the country thinks that is the point.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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[John Rain @johnthenoticer]

Germany has 39,000 Japanese citizens; only two of them were suspected of violent crimes in 2023.

By contrast, out of 25,000 Algerians, 1,729 were suspected of committing a violent crime in 2023.

[Megatron @Megatron_ron]

NEW:

🇩🇪🇨🇳 German Chancellor Merz says Germans need to work more in order to match China:

“We are simply no longer productive enough. Each individual may say, “I already do quite a lot.” And that may be true.

But when you return from China, ladies and gentlemen, you see things more clearly.

With work-life balance and a four-day week, long-term prosperity in our country cannot be maintained. We will simply have to do a bit more.”

[Wu Tang is for the Children @WUTangKids]

7 minute explanation by @SkyNews on why Trump wants Venezuelan oil so badly…..apparently we’re drilling a lot of it here but not the kind that our refineries are built for and since we currently have a tariff war with Canada….Venezuela is next best thing

[Niels van de Geest @NvdGeest]

@WilliamDoort Nog praatjes hebben ook op Twitter. Mooi dit.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

😬

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Women being allowed in bars, Australia, 1974

[Niels van de Geest @NvdGeest]

@VraagFeyenoord Ahh, dacht dat het uitverkocht was. Excuses

[Niels van de Geest @NvdGeest]

@VraagFeyenoord
Ik ben woonachtig in Hong Kong. Hier opzoek naar een keeper shirt voor een andere Feyenoorder hier in HK. Kan helaas niet online bestellen via Feyenoord. Wat nu?

[Plakplaat @Plakplaat63]

Alles wat die ajacieden nu meemaken, hebben wij 5x erger meegemaakt... incasseringsvermogen van een fruitvlieg hebben ze daar.

#Klassieker

[Feyenoord Rotterdam @Feyenoord]

𝐒𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐀𝐆⚽️⚽️

#ajafey

[𝓡𝓨𝓐𝓝 @HotspurRyan]

Now that Lucas Moura has left Spurs, here is a thread of the crazy things that he owns 🧵:

[Feyenoord Rotterdam @Feyenoord]

Het is dat ene woord, die ene club…

𝐀𝐃𝐄𝐌 𝐈𝐍, 𝐀𝐃𝐄𝐌 𝐙𝐔𝐈𝐃 | 2023

#TheBestMemories

[Feyenoord Rotterdam @Feyenoord]

Kijk. Luister. Geniet. ♥️

[Niels van de Geest @NvdGeest]

@arjanpanda Echt alles is te koop.

Niet te bevatten.

[peter @heuvel_p]

19-03-2023 16.15u…….Just a week ago !!!

[Aaron Busch @tripperhead]

The "new normal" for peaceful protest in Hong Kong.

More police than participants.

[Niels van de Geest @NvdGeest]

@CathyYuanZhang @YuanTalks Off the back of Myanmar's suffering… 🤫