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[Gᴇʀʀɪᴛ A. Sᴍɪᴛ 🍋𝒂.𝒌.𝒂. 𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒕 @GerritASmit]

@buitengebieden Trumpdog

[BonkDaCarnivore @BonkDaCarnivore]

What's amazing to me is that, 10 years apart, there are the exact same clouds in the exact same positions.

DC truly is a magical place

[Rohoza (Дев'ятий) Mykhailo 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇨🇦 @Oct7NeverForget]

If Satan has a residence on Earth, it is in Russia: the story of former Kherson mayor Volodymyr Mykolayenko, who survived Russian captivity.

After seeing Russia from the inside, he described it as a moral void, completely incompatible with Ukraine.

In captivity, he survived purely through willpower—holding on by sheer determination. When he finally returned home on August 24, 2025, it felt as though he had grown wings.

What struck him most was the way Ukrainians welcomed the released prisoners. From the Belarusian border all the way to Chernihiv, crowds stood along the roads waving Ukrainian flags. For the first time in a long while, he felt genuine respect and love.

Mykolayenko neither hid nor fled, even though he had the opportunity. He joined the Territorial Defense Forces because he asked himself a simple question: who else would protect his family?

He was given an assault rifle, but quickly realized that rifles alone cannot stop tanks.

The Russians lured him to a meeting under false pretenses, threw him into a car trunk, and took him away.

In captivity, he was beaten almost daily and suffered a broken rib. The occupiers offered him the position of head of the occupation administration, but he refused.

They demanded that he publicly condemn Roman Shukhevych, yet Mykolayenko instead called him a Hero of Ukraine.

Later, he was transferred between detention facilities—first to occupied Crimea, then to Russia’s Voronezh region, where the beatings became even more severe.

He never received a single letter from his family. He even refused prisoner exchanges, insisting that wounded young soldiers should be released in his place.

In his view, this war did not happen because of abstract mistakes. It happened because of geography and irresponsibility.

Russians chose Putin twenty-five years ago, and many continue to support him today. At the same time, too many members of Ukraine’s elite behave as if they have a “backup country”—Paris, Prague, New York—places they can escape to while blaming the people who were left behind.

But most Ukrainians have no alternative. There is no second homeland. There is only Ukraine.

According to Mykolayenko, the true strength of the country lies in its people—those who have survived occupation, torture, and loss, yet continue to fight.

Victory rests on two pillars: the soldiers who destroy the occupiers every day, and the civilians who do everything they can each day to ensure that the army can keep fighting.

He himself endured for the sake of his family and his faith in victory. He is proud of his daughter, who has been fighting since the first day of the war, and hopes that his grandchildren will one day be proud of both him and their country.

[Gᴇʀʀɪᴛ A. Sᴍɪᴛ 🍋𝒂.𝒌.𝒂. 𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒕 @GerritASmit]

@MJ14NUN @wol @TonElias Ja, en?

[Gᴇʀʀɪᴛ A. Sᴍɪᴛ 🍋𝒂.𝒌.𝒂. 𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒕 @GerritASmit]

@HelmaLodders De laatste zin had volstaan, lobbyist.

[Ingwar Perowanowitsch @Perowinger94]

Das deutsche Rechtssystem in a nutshell:

Autofahrer rast mit 512 PS Mercedes AMG mit 98km/h durch Berlin, tötet einen Fußgänger, bepöpelt Zeugen und begeht Fahrerflucht.

Urteil: 22 Monate auf Bewährung.

Ein 65 jähriger Klimaaktivist blockiert wiederholt für 30 min. eine Straße, um die Gesellschaft für die Dringlichkeit der Klimakrise aufzurütteln.

Urteil: 22 Monate Knast ohne Bewährung

Autos blockieren wird in 🇩🇪 also härter bestraft als mit Autos Menschen töten. Absicht hin oder her. Niemand kann mir erzählen, egal ob links oder rechts, dass das in irgendeiner Form gerecht ist! Dieses System gehört grundlegend reformiert!

[Ruud Hendriks @RPJ_Hendriks]

En die zich een dode Jood wenst, want Natascha van Weezel past niet in haar wereldbeeld.

[Speelman @speelmens]

Vergeet niet dat collaborateurs Dilan Yesilgöz en Ruben Brekelmans #VVD de vorige keer, toen de PVV de grootste was, omvolkers ministersposten gaven om mee te kunnen regeren. En dat ze een omvolker tot voorzitter van de Tweede Kamer kozen.

[Enis آنسون @EnisOdaci]

Het moet gezegd worden... mijn lezersbrief in Trouw.

[Wahlrecht.de @Wahlrecht_de]

Sonntagsfrage zur Bundestagswahl • Forschungsgruppe Wahlen / ZDF (Projektion): AfD 27 % | CDU/CSU 25 % | GRÜNE 14 % | SPD 12 % | DIE LINKE 11 % | FDP 3 % | Sonstige 8 %
➤ Übersicht: https://t.co/Gzilw3J3L9
➤ Verlauf: https://t.co/SY5Z5QPt63

[neyi kaybettiğini hatırla @neyikaybettik]

Hussam Ebu Safieh, "İsrail'in rehineler için ölüm cezası" ile öldürülecek olan Filistinli doktorlardan biridir (diğer 95 doktor arasında).

Onu öldürmelerine izin verme.
Bunu yeniden yayınlayın.

[Yasmina @yasminalombaert]

This is putin casually admitting to what can only be described as a textbook war crime, and he’s doing it with a smug smile on his face.

He literally brags about using Ukraine as a human testing ground.

He openly admits that they didn't fire their "Oreshnik" missile at a military test range. Instead, they fired it at populated areas in Ukraine just because it was "convenient to watch”.

Think about that for a second. He sent explosive warheads into communities, and then sent drones in right after just to count the bodies and measure the craters "down to the millimeter" like it’s some kind of science fair project.

But the scariest part is how he ends it. He casually drops that they are collecting this data so they can figure out how to better use these massive missiles in "urban areas”. That is political speak for densely populated cities filled with civilians, apartment buildings, and schools.
It’s pure, calculated terror.

putin: “After all, we... we used to test such systems at testing ranges. But 'Oreshnik' wasn't tested that way. And this wasn't a combat application. In fact, we haven't had a single combat application of 'Oreshnik' over the territory of Ukraine in the full, so to speak, sense of the word.
And the last one—to be completely honest, I will reveal a major, major state military secret to you. We simply struck a location where it was convenient to observe the results. Well, this concerns Bila Tserkva, and it especially concerns... concerns the DPR [so-called Donetsk People's Republic] area within the perimeter of the main fortified area.
Afterward, our drones flew into that area—the target area we had struck—and simply looked at how the multiple reentry vehicles had landed. They calculated everything down to the millimeter, exactly where everything hit.
For us, this is important in order to make future decisions regarding the full-scale deployment of 'Oreshnik' against designated targets. Including within urban areas.”

[Gᴇʀʀɪᴛ A. Sᴍɪᴛ 🍋𝒂.𝒌.𝒂. 𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒕 @GerritASmit]

@Onair58 @chris_stoffer Bleef het maar bij geloofsgenoten.

[joop witteveen @joopwitteveen]

@DilanYesilgoz Goh, waarom zou de minister van Defensie zoiets posten?

[Gᴇʀʀɪᴛ A. Sᴍɪᴛ 🍋𝒂.𝒌.𝒂. 𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒕 @GerritASmit]

@JeroenvanH @BraakBert Eén is meer dan genoeg.

[Gᴇʀʀɪᴛ A. Sᴍɪᴛ 🍋𝒂.𝒌.𝒂. 𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒕 @GerritASmit]

@RiemeHofman @NikStantz @obk @Eurostar Twee maal per dag rechtstreeks met inOui bij @Treinreiswinkel, wel begin juli ...

[Gᴇʀʀɪᴛ A. Sᴍɪᴛ 🍋𝒂.𝒌.𝒂. 𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒕 @GerritASmit]

@GooglePlay You expect me to give *positive* feedback on Apps. Even on bad Apps. This is contempt of your users.

[Gᴇʀʀɪᴛ A. Sᴍɪᴛ 🍋𝒂.𝒌.𝒂. 𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒕 @GerritASmit]

@de_rekenmeester Ach, #Arib.
Eerst in no time de vlucht naar voren, en nu natrappen naar de ambtelijke top.

[Kathleen Ferrier @KGFerrier]

Lees deze column aub. @trouw