'Fascisme is het gevolg van politieke partijen die hun eigen gedachtegoed verloochenen, intellectuelen die nihilisme cultiveren, geldzucht van de zakenwereld en de massa media die liever buikspreker dan een spiegel zijn.' Rob Riemen - De eeuwige terugkeer van het fascisme
๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐ ๐ฒ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ฎ ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐๐ ๐ฅ๐๐๐๐ถ๐ฎ ๐๐ฎ๐ ๐ก๐ผ๐ ๐ง๐ฟ๐๐น๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ป ๐ถ๐ป ๐ง๐ต๐ถ๐ ๐ช๐ฎ๐ฟ.
๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ฒ๐ผ๐ด๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ฝ๐ต๐ ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐๐ ๐ฅ๐๐๐๐ถ๐ฎ ๐๐ฎ๐ป๐ป๐ผ๐ ๐๐ณ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฑ ๐๐ผ ๐๐ฒ๐ ๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ป ๐๐ฎ๐น๐น.
There is a narrative that Russia has stayed quiet on Iran, that it will not commit.
It is completely wrong.
Putin has said repeatedly, to Iran's foreign minister and to its president, that Russia will provide โevery form of supportโ.
To understand why he means it, you have to understand what Iran actually is to Russia. It is not โjustโ an ally of convenience. It is a matter of survival.
Russia has a permanent geographic curse. It is a giant with almost no warm water access.
Its seas freeze in winters and the exits it does have are controlled by others. Its Black Sea route runs through a strait Turkey (a NATO country) controls, then through the Mediterranean and Suez.
Over the last fifty years, it lost its naval foothold in Egypt, and more recently its ports in Syria, shrinking its reach even further.
And when Ukraine turned toward NATO, it threatened the LAST secure warm water anchor Russia had FOR ITS NAVY.
A global power that cannot reliably reach open ocean is a global power in decline. This is ONE of the most critical fears that drives Moscow these days..
Iran is the answer to THAT curse, from a different direction.
It is Russia's southern gate. Through Iran runs the International North South Transport Corridor, a 7,200 kilometer route that carries Russian goods down through the Caspian, across Iranian territory, to the Persian Gulf and onward to India, one of Russia's largest and most important markets.
It is not a theory. Russia and Iran signed the strategic partnership, Russia is financing the Rasht to Astara railway that completes it, and the whole point is to move Russian oil, gas and cargo to the world without touching a single chokepoint the West can close, Iran is entirely aligned with Russia in this regard.
This is WHY Iran is the mirror of Crimea.
Crimea secured Russia's warm water access in the south west, and Moscow annexed it because survival as a naval power demanded it.
Iran secures Russia's trade access to the south, a land route immune to Western navies, immune to sanctions on shipping, immune to Ukrainian sabotage of Russian vessels.
Lose Iran, and Russia is pushed back toward its frozen seas and its contested straits, its reach collapsing inward.
Keep Iran, and Russia has a permanent overland door to the Indian Ocean world that no blockade can shut.
So understand why Iran is not Syria.
In Syria, Russia backed a partner it could ultimately afford to let go. Iran is different.
Iran is infrastructure Russia has already paid for, a corridor it is building with its own money, the southern gate of its entire strategy to survive Western containment.
A great power does NOT walk away from the door it depends on to reach the world.
Russia will support Iran in this war, not out of loyalty alone, but because a broken Iran breaks Russia's escape from encirclement.
The West reads Russian silence as distance. It is not distance.
It is a power that has already decided, quietly, that this particular partner it cannot afford to lose.
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Onderzoek laat zien dat voor 35 van de 122 gemonitorde chemische stoffen normoverschrijdingen plaatsvinden. Voor sommige stoffen worden de normen op meer dan 90 procent van de onderzochte locaties overschreden." https://t.co/t3iLNAf0Yp
In 1988 was er een bomaanslag op het Sijthoffgebouw plaats omdat de roomblanke crimineel Eef Hoos het niet eens was met een rechtbankverslag in de Haagse Courant. In 1999 sloeg hij toe in Almere, de man stierf tevereden aan de Algarve, toevluchtsoord voor Hollandse schelmen.
Israel has killed at least 4 times the number of civilians and 25 times the number of children as Russia, as Britain continues full sanctions on Russia while refusing any meaningful sanctions on Israel.
https://t.co/FU3K0qpEzD
Here is an 'israeli' telling a Palestinian that what prevents peace is Palestinians wanting ALL of Palestine back, while simultaneously saying that 'israel' will never give ANY of Palestine back.
It's not very difficult to spot the hypocrisy and gaslighting.
Dismantle 'israel'.
Luxembourg has let its authorization for the sale of Israel Bonds expire, stripping Israel of the EU regulatory cover it needs to raise billions from European investors, money that flows into the Israeli government's budget and helps finance its military and its genocide in Gaza.
https://t.co/cBVhokCKBU
An IDF soldier is on a U.S. campus telling students that the UN is Hamas. Not a joke. Not satire
American universities are being weaponized for Israeli hasbara
Israeli prison guards beat a Palestinian prisoner to death after he asked them if there was a truce in Gaza in November 2023, according to an indictment against 12 of those involved in the man's killing https://t.co/niH3pED6PG
Elke Israรซlische militair die in de Gazastrook heeft gediend, moet worden beschouwd als verdachte van oorlogsmisdaden en genocide, zegt VN-commissaris Chris Sidoti. https://t.co/4rcYUVydoW
"...the terror attacks of Oct. 7, 2023, that saw Hamas and other Palestinian militant groups kill 1,195 Israelis and foreign nationals".
My goodness, is Hannibal denial still on? https://t.co/Ns2Juv0lxB
โElke Israรซli die diende in #Gaza, is verdachte van oorlogsmisdaden, misdaden tegen de menselijkheid en volkerenmoordโ - Chris Sidoti, commissaris van de VN-commissie die misdrijven in #Palestina onderzoekt https://t.co/mo2il5V0jY
Vanmiddag had ik een constructief gesprek met Dagmar Oudshoorn, directeur van Amnesty International Nederland. Over de hele wereld zet Amnesty International zich in voor mensenrechten. Hun acties, rapporten en brieven houden ons scherp en helpen een licht te schijnen op situaties die anders onopgemerkt konden blijven in binnen- en buitenland.
Drie onderwerpen stonden centraal in ons gesprek, waaronder de noodzaak om de internationale rechtsorde te beschermen. Daar blijft Nederland zich hard voor maken, ook als gastland van belangrijke internationale gerechtshoven. Ook de bescherming van migranten en vluchtelingen in migratiesamenwerkingen kwam aan bod, net als de stappen die het kabinet zet in aanpak van racisme en discriminatie in Nederland.
Trump has a refreshing habit of saying the quiet part out loud about U.S. pillaging of natural resourcesโwhich other U.S. leaders present as โdemocracyโ and โhuman rightsโ