DodoZmore

Follows 🇳🇱, 🇪🇺 and 🇺🇸 politics and sports.

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@USMNT Peak USA on display. All fired up and arrogant before the match, 'defy reality', Star Spangled Banner out of tune, badly timed flyover. In the end Germany scores within two minutes and the remaining audience starts arguing on the color of shirt numbers.

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@DavidLochhead1 @MikeBales Surely a reasonable assumption.

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@FabrizioRomano Burnlee-hee

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@implausibleblog Almost had his punchline ruined by the desk xD

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@MartaFountain @telegraaf Hahahaha Trump gaat gruwelijk de fout in en zelfs dat is weer de schuld van links 🫣

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@WesterveldArjan @apjvalk @palpeet Hij is de tennisbal denk ik?

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@MKSportsCards77 @cspan Dutch royals and the prime minister are over for dinner.

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@DrEggPricing @EuropeElects But more importantly, can you even find Hungary on a map?

[Owen Sparks @OwenSparks]

An incredibly touching moment on board Orion as the Artemis II crew calls down an unnamed crater that they have observed on the Moon, asking to name it 'Carroll', after Carroll Wiseman, Commander Reid Wiseman's wife who tragically passed away in 2020. ❤️

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@stefanstandurk @riooljournalist @noorlanderarjan @liekcornelissen @Nieuwsuur Je hebt door dat je tegen een parodie-account aan het praten bent?

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@pepsi Pepilepsi

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@HKatzwinkel @ministerBZ @SecGenNATO @NATO Jij denkt dat de minister zelf zijn Twitter beheert?

[Jason Cherniak @Cherniak]

If you want to understand Mark Carney, you have to put aside all of your preconceived notions. He is not a heartless banker or a champagne socialist. He is not a bleeding-heart Liberal or a hard-nosed realist. He is not an environmentalist or an oil baron. He is not following the United States, Europe or China. He is not antisemitic or always supportive of Israel. He does not oppose international law or rely on it in all circumstances. Mark Carney can only be described as a pragmatic realist.

Many people misinterpreted Mark Carney’s speech at Davos. When he spoke of removing the sign from the window, he was not just talking about the United States and Donald Trump (although that was the main context). He was talking about the world at large. He never said that only the United States breaks the rules when it suits that country. He said great powers do it - all of them. This refers not only to the United States’ trade policies, but also China’s trade policies and threats against Taiwan, as well as Russia’s energy policies, attack on Ukraine and threats against Eastern Europe. He may have even been referring to the United Nations itself.

If you think about it that way, then Carney‘s recognition of a Palestinian State and response to today’s attack on Iran make more sense. He recognized Palestine not because he believed that it would be a successful state in its present form, but because he believed that failure to do so would leave Netanyahu to tighten a Gordian knot, where the allegations of apartheid that have been untrue to date might one day become true.

That did not, however, mean that he opposes Israel or Zionism. Last summer he said any future Palestinian state needs to be Zionist! As we saw today, Carney continues to support Israel’s right to defend itself and he continues to view Iran as the main source of instability in the Middle East. It is Netanyahu‘s treatment of Palestinians with which he correctly disagrees.

When Israel tries to take over the West Bank, it is wrong. When Iran surrounds Israel with terrorist proxies, it is also wrong. Carney has not said it, but I suspect he would agree that when the United Nations puts the Iranian regime on a human rights council and claims that attacking the country is what is causing instability, it is wrong. Carney is not trying to take sides. He is trying to take principled positions on specific topics that he believes will lead to real world results.

That does not mean that Carney would have advised Trump and Netanyahu to attack Iran. Neither does it mean that he will send over Canadian resources. What it means is that the attack happened, he has analyzed the positives and negatives and he has decided that he is going to highlight the positives. I tend to take the same view. If an attack on the Iranian regime is inevitable, then I hope it succeeds. I hope that success leads to a world where the potential for war between Iran and Israel no longer exists.

We can both take action based on the world as it is and hope that it results in the world that we want to see. I suppose that is where I disagree with what Carney said at Davos; it is not necessary to pick one or the other. I suspect if he had thought about it more, he might have phrased it differently himself. #cdnpoli

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@25YearsAgoLive Wondering how this will turn out in, let's say, 25 years.

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@uit_ZeeVla @DutchKafir @albertheijn Als bijzonder verstokte randstedeling herken ik dit beeld nochtans alleen maar uit hartje Amsterdam. Verder is het natuurlijk helemaal niet waar wat je zegt.

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@uit_ZeeVla @DutchKafir @albertheijn Amsterdam is niet de hele Randstad hè.

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@gewoonzim Oh no I am shocked beyond compare how did I not see this coming at all 😐

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@ernstvingerhoe1 @geertwilderspvv Maar PVV heeft zeven weglopers in de kamer? Zelfs de PvdA is groter nu...

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@usambnl They absolutely did.

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@Fuzybny @bana_devsa7 @GovTimWalz Another 5 shots after the man lied flat on his back?