sea wind and herring

Russische politiek journalist. Vluchteling in Nederlands. counterculture takes, my thoughts

[sea wind and herring @PSeellberg]

@ChurchillPath Красивая женщина. А почему она не представляет итальянских женщин?

[sea wind and herring @PSeellberg]

@Dutchfan33 Wat is erg? Ik begrijp het erg was in Brussel. Maar wat is erg met deze vieren in Javabuurt? Lieve en positieve mensen, zonder enkele agressie.
Dit is Brussel bijvoorbeeld:

[Amir D @starks_arq]

This picture means something to an entire generation of Dutch people.

I'm one of them.

My parents came to Holland as Moroccan immigrants.
I was born there.

Dutch passport.
Dutch better than my Arabic.
The first 18 years of my life, Holland fed me, schooled me, raised me.

The Moroccans helped rebuild Holland.
Holland gave them roads, schools, a future in return.

Fair trade.

But we never really integrated.

That's not on one side.
That's on everyone.

We learned to speak for our grandparents, because they never got to learn the language.
We brought our food.
We brought our culture. Mosques. Books and humor.

We had fun.
We hung out.
We went to each other's weddings and loved the mix of it.

And still.
We never really became one.

The politicians made sure to categorize us.
They needed us to be outsiders, while we were busy acting like insiders.

So a wall went up between neighbors.

Then yesterday a silly game with a ball put two teams on the same grass.
Two continents.
Two cultures.

Except they're not two teams.

They're teams stitched together by the same life.

The Dutch know the Moroccans. Intimately.
The Moroccans know the Dutch. Intimately.

The Moroccans in Morocco spend every summer selling to the Moroccans from Holland.

The Dutch spend every day next to Moroccans. In School. At The local butcher. The streets.

The Moroccan team is full of Moroccans carrying Dutch passports.

The Dutch team is full of their actual friends, neighbors, and colleagues.

Such a simple game.
Such a complicated story.

When I look at this image I don't see football.

I see high school.
I see pride.
I see distance.
I don't see compassion.
I see resentment.

And that's exactly how we lived in beautiful Holland.

Together. Happily.
And quietly, unconsciously, apart.

I left when I was 18.
I went back to Morocco.

I resented Holland.
For years it was me vs them.

Now I understand what I actually have.

I can read two cultures from the inside.

And I get to choose.
What I carry with me.
What I leave behind.

Because every culture has its gold.
And every culture has its rot.

The trick is knowing which is which.

Love. Be kind to each other.

[sea wind and herring @PSeellberg]

If Ukrainian men lose protection in the EU simply because they are of military age, it raises a disturbing question: are they seen as holders of individual rights, or merely as state property that should be returned to its owner?

[sea wind and herring @PSeellberg]

Friends, is anyone bothered by the fact that in just the last few days, in different parts of the world, there was a powerful volcanic eruption in Indonesia, then an earthquake in Crimea, last night an earthquake in Venezuela, and now another one – this time in Japan.
Doesn't it feel like the Mother Earth is shaking beneath us?

[sea wind and herring @PSeellberg]

@agribussiness1 @mkainerugaba Are you communist?

[sea wind and herring @PSeellberg]

@willpower243 @kalu_rose20004 @grok @Grok add him pictures of train from DRC. I don’t know if Congo really has trains, they actually using river Congo, maybe here river trains?

[sea wind and herring @PSeellberg]

@kiraincongress Just Poland starting demand denazification from Ukraine.

[sea wind and herring @PSeellberg]

Hotels doing it for houskeeping. They are working shifts between 11-15 and should clean up all rooms in this short period. Then new guest can get a room at 15:00. If you want room till 15:00 you should pay for another night. Because room will stay dirty till next day. Take it or leave it, it’s how it works.

[sea wind and herring @PSeellberg]

@Jeffert43818241 Deze opvang voor vluchtelingen in Libya

[sea wind and herring @PSeellberg]

I know two types of racists.

The first type ranks people by the color of their skin because they believe other races are inferior, less intelligent, or somehow lesser than their own.

The second type is racist in a supposedly “good” way. They do the same thing - they categorize and judge people based on skin color, but to signal things like: “I’m a white savior,” “I’m here to help you,” “I’m on your side,” “I’m progressive,” or “I support people of your race.”

The motivation may be different, but the underlying behavior is the same: viewing people primarily through the lens of race.

Anyone who sorts, judges, or categorizes people based on skin color, regardless of their motivation, is engaging in racism.

People are people. We are all equal human beings.

[Tulsi Gabbard 🌺 @TulsiGabbard]

Yesterday was my final day as Director of National Intelligence. I declassified and released never-before-seen documents exposing the truth about Fauci directing millions of US taxpayer dollars to fund dangerous gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab, worked with the Intelligence Community to suppress the truth about his actions and hide the virus’ lab-leak origins, and lied to Congress while under oath in 2024. It’s time you know the truth. Go to https://t.co/tVwWp0TxZ4 to see for yourself.

[sea wind and herring @PSeellberg]

How it still works in nowadays: These mines are controlled by M23, FDRL and other proxy militias backed by Rwanda and Uganda, they are laundering conflict minerals onto the global market. China pays, Europe pays, the US pays. Two dictators friends- Kagame and Musaveni causing this war for minerals in Eastern Congo for the past 27 years. With millions killed, raped, enslaved, slaughtered.

[sea wind and herring @PSeellberg]

Only facts about current affairs in the world.
Slavery still exists. For example, in the mines of Eastern Congo, where tens of thousands of children extract coltan and cobalt at gunpoint. Without which the entire global production of electronics that all of you use would come to a halt. Including iPhones.

[sea wind and herring @PSeellberg]

@mkainerugaba Seems you seeking for love and attention.

[sea wind and herring @PSeellberg]

@visegrad24 Here a lot of haram on this video, this guys seems very westernized.

[sea wind and herring @PSeellberg]

Anyone who entered this game accepted the rules Putin established. He has stained Europe and the wider world with Russian and Ukrainian blood alike. That may have been the true objective all along.

Europe is sacrificing its own values in this conflict. The First World is now openly debating whether to strip Ukrainian men of legal protection abroad and return them to the kill zone. This is not a policy discussion. It is an open admission that human beings can be ranked, that rights are not, in fact, universal.

In the developed world, human rights are protected. In poorer parts of the world, men can apparently be rounded up like livestock and sent into hell against their will.

Europe publicly opened its arms to Ukraine and spoke of welcoming it into the European family. Yet in practice, Ukrainian citizens are not treated as equals. They are denied the right to flee, denied the right to choose life. They have become a resource. A tool. Expendable material.
That, ultimately, may be Putin’s greatest victory, regardless of how the war ends.
He has stained everyone. And no one will be able to wash it away.

[sea wind and herring @PSeellberg]

A Few Uncomfortable Questions About the War in Ukraine.

Putin is waging a war that seems almost unimaginable in the 21st century. He has brought back something every developed democracy has tried to avoid at all costs since World War II: a war of attrition, a human meat grinder.

A war in which human lives are worth literally nothing. A war where torture, violence, and coercion are used to push more people into the kill zone. There are countless videos documenting this brutality, people broken psychologically and physically, forced toward almost certain death.

At the same time, Ukraine has accepted the rules of this game. It is achieving results through similar methods and at times, through measures that many would consider even harsher toward its own citizens, including the mass manhunting on own citizens on the streets.

There is also a crystallized divide. Call it the First World - the part of the world Putin does not bombard with missiles. This world speaks constantly about human rights and humanitarian values, yet seems unable or unwilling to see the bloody sacrifice being carried out by both sides. The existential threat to Europe lies precisely in this kind of industrial-scale slaughter. The underlying logic of Western support can be reduced to one objective: Ukrainians are expected to preserve for Europe the possibility of never having to fight such a war themselves.

If that is true, then blood is on everyone’s hands.

On the hands of everyone who insists this war still serves some higher geopolitical or existential purpose - purposes that may have ceased to exist long ago.
Putin claims that capturing the remaining major cities of Donbas - Sloviansk, Kramatorsk, and Kostiantynivka is essential. This is nonsense. What will remain there are ruins, purchased with hundreds of thousands of lives on both sides. There is no grand idea in that outcome. Nor is there any meaningful future in those ruins.

Putin could choose not to capture them. Ukraine could choose to surrender them in order to save hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian lives. The question is simply one of human value. For Putin, human life is clearly not a priority. But what about for everyone else?

At the beginning of the war, there was at least an intelligible objective. Putin sought to destroy Ukrainian statehood. He failed. Ukraine’s survival as a state was secured in 2022 through extraordinary courage and sacrifice - a fact acknowledged even by Moscow itself. During the Istanbul negotiations in the spring of 2022, Russia was already prepared to discuss peace terms that recognized Ukraine’s continued existence as a sovereign state.

Today is 2026. Putin is now wagering hundreds of thousands more lives, and whether those people live or die depends largely on the choices made by his opponents. That fact alone undermines the very foundation of European values.

When Hitler bombed Rotterdam in May 1940 and threatened to destroy Utrecht and Amsterdam unless the Netherlands surrendered, the Dutch chose occupation over the further destruction of their cities and the deaths of countless civilians. Now consider a different scenario: suppose France had offered the Netherlands vast sums of money and weapons on the condition that the Dutch fight Germany at any cost - including hunting down every able-bodied man and forcing him into uniform. The objective would not have been saving the Netherlands. It would have been buying time and buffer, while France continued to live normally.

The underlying logic today seems remarkably similar.

The honest choice facing Europe and the United States existed at the very beginning: were they willing to make real sacrifices, send their own troops, and demonstrate that they truly stood with Ukraine? Or were their own lives simply too valuable, while Ukrainian lives were cheap enough to purchase?

Putin’s disgrace of human life is well known. The harder question is why no one asks the same of everyone else involved.

[sea wind and herring @PSeellberg]

Europe is sacrificing its values in this conflict. The First World today is seriously discussing the need to strip Ukrainian men of protection in Europe and send them into the meat grinder in the Kill Zone. This is an open admission that people can be ranked, that values and rights are not the same for everyone.

In other words, on paper EU opened their arms wide to Ukraine to accept it into the European family, but in reality its citizens are denied the right to flee, the right to life - they are expendable material, a tool, a resource.
This is blood on the hands.

[sea wind and herring @PSeellberg]

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