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Opa Wouter

@opawouter.bsky.social
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Europe unite and stand strong for true democracy, protected human rights and a safe, healthy and sustainable world to live in. Nederlandstalige Europeaan, gelukkig getrouwd, trotse (groot)vader, bescheiden creatief, atheist, humanist.

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Sophie in't Veld @sophieintveld.bsky.social · 1h
Barbarism. Pure and undiluted. Europe cannot remain silence and pretend this falls within the “shared values”. If any other country did this, the EU would issue a public condemnation.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23h
The Russians are barbarians and should be treated as such, not as people to negotiate new business deals with to benefit corrupt oligarchs in the US.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 13h
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Isa Yusibov @isayusibov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Fully agreed. NATO needs to step up against Putin before it is too late. www.foreignaffairs.com/russia/russi...
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Russia’s Hybrid War Has Entered a Dangerous New Phase
Julianne Smith, who represented the United States at NATO during the Biden administration, argues that Russian hybrid warfare in Europe is escalating quickly, and NATO is not doing enough to deter it....
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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The war in Ukraine isn't ending, and Russia's threat won't disappear. European countries must buy more cruise missiles, ballistic missiles, drones, and interceptors for themselves and Ukraine. We must stop thinking short-term and place massive long-term defense orders
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Bart Groothuis @bartgroothuis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Het Chinese leger krijgt direct de macht over alle data, technologie en software van Chinese bedrijven: dat zegt de nieuwe wet die Peking afgelopen donderdag aannam. Chinese bedrijven horen dus niet in onze kritieke infrastructuur! Ingediende motie kreeg volle steun vandaag
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Isa Yusibov @isayusibov.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
NAVO moet de komende weken veel meer aan afschrikking doen wil de alliantie Poetins invasie voorkomen. www.ft.com/content/0293...
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Estonia shifts troops closer to Russia in ‘active defence’ push
Baltic state prepares to carry out deep strikes inside its neighbour if it is attacked
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Marike Stellinga @marikestellinga.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...
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Vrijwel heel Europa leent voor de defensie-uitgaven, maar Nederland blijft bij het mantra van Heinen: ‘Elke euro betaald aan rente krijg je nooit meer terug’
Herbewapening: Vergeleken met elf andere Europese landen blijkt Nederland als een van de weinige niet de staatsschuld extra te laten oplopen om defensie-uitgaven te financieren. En maar heel weinig an...
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Opa Wouter @opawouter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
South Korea will probably demand apologies for bringing this news...
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Bart Aafjes @bartaafjes68.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Russian woman in Moscow telling it like it is. Those in charge treat the people worse than cattle. Sending them to their deaths for the little Çzar in theKremlin and the billionaire oligarchs Totally expendable, like the people of Ukraine, and they know it...
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Opa Wouter @opawouter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Russian aggression must be stopped and the aggressors must face trial. The difficult question is how, given that Europe isn't strong enough and the corrupt US Administration is on Putin's side. Great respect for Ukraine!
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24Hours Ukraine @24hoursukraine.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
🇷🇺An approved Communist Party rally in central Moscow did not go as planned. Protesters chanted “Fair elections,” “We want freedom,” “Freedom for political prisoners” and “Down with the Tsar” — referring to Putin. Police detained around 60 people.
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Caring Farmers @caringfarmers.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Als @progressiefned.bsky.social dinsdag vóór #mestvergisting stemt gaan er wéér honderden miljoenen euro's naar het in stand houden van de intensieve veehouderij en de uitstoot daarvan. Geld dat ook besteed kan worden aan échte oplossingen zoals extensivering en eiwittransitie..... #StemTegen!
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Dobropillia. Over 28 thousand people used to live here. They worked, loved, built homes, dreamed, raised children... Now it's all gone. It's just another Ukrainian town Russia erased.
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
New: Trump’s abrupt announcement to send $90 payments to seniors by dipping into a Medicare fund has rattled Capitol Hill. One GOP aide told WaPo that lawmakers had planned to use the money to offset funding for community health centers, diabetes programs and other initiatives.
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Trump announces plan to send $90 payments to millions of seniors
The White House said the one-time payments would be drawn from a fund set up to improve Medicare.
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Rep. Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.house.gov · 02/10/2026
This corruption must be investigated.
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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I'm with Carl Sagan on this:
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten: "Russia poses a rapidly increasing threat to the NATO Alliance: in the Baltic States, where Moscow has cast its long shadows for many years. In the North Sea, where the shadow fleet operates with increasing impunity.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 30/09/2026
Pete Hegseth appoints Elon Musk to US taskforce on future of warfare
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Pete Hegseth appoints Elon Musk to US taskforce on future of warfare
A year after his explosive tenure at Doge, the SpaceX CEO is back in the Trump administration’s good graces Pete Hegseth announced on Wednesday that Elon Musk will co-lead a government project to study the future of warfare, marking the SpaceX CEO’s first return to government since he ran the chaotic, so -called “department of government efficiency”, or Doge. Musk will be joined by Palmer Luckey, CEO of the defense tech company Anduril, and Newt Gingrich, the former Republican speaker of the House. A defense department press release on the effort, called Project Meridian, described its goal as “identifying the capabilities required to achieve absolute technological dominance on the next-generation battlefield”. The project will run for 120 days and culminate in an unclassified public report of its recommendations. Continue reading...
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Hans de Vreij @vreij.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
'The Kaliningrad Non-Paper: Decoding Moscow’s Latest Warning to NATO' www.kyivpost.com/post/85697
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Why Moscow Is Raising the Nuclear Stakes Over Kaliningrad
Moscow threatened its “entire arsenal” over Kaliningrad as NATO condemned the nuclear rhetoric and vowed continued support for Ukraine.
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Opa Wouter @opawouter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The actual message from Russia is not about actively isolating Kaliningrad by NATO, but about defending the Baltic states against Russian aggression. Russia wil claim these states to reunite their country.
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Isa Yusibov @isayusibov.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Rusland heeft een document naar de NAVO gestuurd waarin het bondgenootschap wordt beschuldigd van het opvoeren van militaire activiteiten en het ondernemen van provocerende acties rond Kaliningrad.
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Opa Wouter @opawouter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The warning mentions "should NATO countries undertake any attempt aimed at isolating the Kaliningrad Region from the ​rest of the country". This is a tempting, defensive move indeed, but not the way to stop Russia's agression. We have to break their war machine and their alliances. But we just wait.
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Isa Yusibov @isayusibov.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Poetin heeft per 28 september 2026 de toegestane omvang van de Russische strijdkrachten verhoogd naar 2.441.630, waaronder 1.550.500 militairen. Dat is 15.500 militairen meer dan onder de vorige vastgestelde sterkte van juli 2026. Stop de oorlogskoorts... in Rusland. Toch, folks? :)
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@Marcel @elsschot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🎯 #oorlogskoorts @volkskrant.nl
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Opa Wouter @opawouter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Stop the evil Russian regime and it's war machine NOW! It won't stop itself. Neither will Trump.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Joe Walsh Is Right......
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Opa Wouter @opawouter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ik gebruik ChatGPT en Google AI steeds vaker en met veel plezier. Het begon met plaatjes genereren, omdat (analoog en digitaal) tekenen altijd al mijn hobby is. Nu vraag ik ook steeds meer achtergrondinformatie bij boeken die ik lees en films die ik zie. Fijn, zo'n intelligente veelkunner!
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Opa Wouter @opawouter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Not sure that Russia sabotaged Dutch railway tracks. Could be other activists.
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Jessica Berlin @berlinbridge.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Drones over Lithuania, flares fired at Danish aircraft, the Polish border strike. These attacks are a direct result of Europe’s weak response to Leipzig & all other provocations. It’s past time. The EU must ban Russian tourists. NATO must help defend western Ukrainian airspace.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Ukraine’s survival is more important than the Midterms. If Trump wants something that big out of Ukraine, he should at least give PAC interceptors in exchange
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Opa Wouter @opawouter.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I keep a little hope that the US will slowly recover after Trump. So for now I prefer in coma over dead. Let's strongly build our alternatives and see what gets next.
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Opa Wouter @opawouter.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Mijn AI visualisatie van de slotscene uit The Fountainhead van Ayn Rand met architect Howard Roark en zijn vrouw Dominique Francon. Gemaakt met behulp van ChatGPT.
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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This is why we should not expect any constructive proposals from this meeting. Not because Witkoff/Kushner are incompetent (although they are) but because they don't have a mandate to secure concessions from Pu. Their mandate is to collect Ru's demands and then try to force Ukraine into folding.
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Chris Aalberts @chrisaalberts.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Wijze woorden. Wie schaft de onderwijsvrijheid af? Het is er hoog tijd voor. www.volkskrant.nl/columns-van-...
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De onderwijsvrijheid een liberale kernwaarde? Dat is een nationale mythe
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Laurens Dassen @laurensdassen.voltnederland.org · 01/09/2026
De verschrikkelijke Russische agressie neemt steeds verder toe. Elke avond vliegen raketten richting Oekraïne, die onschuldige mensen doden. Met de winter in aantocht, is extra steun cruciaal voor Oekraïne. De ambassadeur vraagt NL om 2 miljard naar voren te halen: kabinet doe dat!
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Isa Yusibov @isayusibov.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Kremlin: "Rusland heeft geen enkele reden, geen enkel plan en geen enkele noodzaak om NAVO-landen aan te vallen." Dit zeiden ze ook mbt Oekraine 3 dagen voor de invasie. Buckle up, NATO.
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Opa Wouter @opawouter.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
'Gevoeligheden en talenten'.
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The Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
🇺🇦🇺🇸 Zelensky: My team and I are preparing for a new communication with representatives of the President of America. There will be more details tomorrow. We are doing everything to ensure that war does not remain the only option for further events. We are working actively - without days off.
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Opa Wouter @opawouter.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
*koppelwerkwoord
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Opa Wouter @opawouter.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
De gegeven zin is wel correct. "de lastige kinderen" is het onderwerp en bepaalt de meervoudsvorm van het koppelweekwoord "zijn". "Het probleem" is geen lijdend voorwerp, maar het naamwoordelijk deel van het gezegde. Dat is hier terecht enkelvoud. Ook een lijdend voorwerp kan in getal afwijken.
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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Russia is failing to reach its strategic goals in Ukraine and will escalate both there and in the EU. Instead of ending the war, it chooses escalation, raising threats for its neighbors. We must transfer frozen Russian assets to Ukraine to free up our money for our defense
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Bart Aafjes @bartaafjes68.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Het blijken er ruim 620.000 te zijn.. Zogenaamd toeristenvisa, vooral Frankrijk, Italië en Spanje verlenen heel veel Russen toegang tot Europa. Gaan we daar nog iets aan doen @ec.europa.eu ?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Food companies wanted deregulation. Now there are dozens of recalls across the country. Mining companies wanted deregulation. Now the black lung rate is at a 45-year high. Financial companies wanted deregulation. Now financial losses to fraud are the highest on record. Noticing a pattern?
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The Analyst @militaryanalyst.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
SWEDEN TO FORWARD BASE ITS ARMY AND AIR FORCE IN FINLAND Sweden operating under NATO auspices is transferring several combat ready units to Finland to act as a deterrent against any potential Russian aggression, the first time in modern history this has been done. Its another reminder to everyone
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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
1/5 France's 2027 Election: The Kremlin's Path into the EU
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
🇺🇦❗️Zelensky: Ukraine will launch 1,000+ drones per day on Russia. I've set that goal. Currently, we launch an average of 300+ drones. Russia, for the first time in history, imports gasoline and spends budget funds actually supporting oil companies. And there will be more such losses for them…
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Opa Wouter @opawouter.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Prachtig om te zien. Bedankt voor het vastleggen en delen!
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