PG Kroeger
@pgkroegerbb.bsky.social
historicus, penvoerder, dagvoorzitter, jurysecretaris, podcaster 'Betrouwbare Bronnen' en nu 'cultheld' [dixit Trouw] en 'geheim wapen' [dixit Volkskrant]
Sublieme tekening van Le Canard Enchainé
January 8, 2026 at 5:48 PM
Sublieme tekening van Le Canard Enchainé
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Trump posted on his social network that without his involvement, Russia would now own all of Ukraine.
And it seems he’s still bitter about not being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
And it seems he’s still bitter about not being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
January 7, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Trump posted on his social network that without his involvement, Russia would now own all of Ukraine.
And it seems he’s still bitter about not being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
And it seems he’s still bitter about not being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
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The Minister of Defense noted that Lithuania would certainly contribute to security guarantees for Ukraine and therefore, in the event of peace, could send several hundred soldiers.
January 8, 2026 at 9:57 AM
The Minister of Defense noted that Lithuania would certainly contribute to security guarantees for Ukraine and therefore, in the event of peace, could send several hundred soldiers.
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In Lithuania, the possibility was raised of deploying several hundred troops to Ukraine in the event of a ceasefire.
www.lrt.lt/pl/wiadomosc...
www.lrt.lt/pl/wiadomosc...
January 8, 2026 at 9:57 AM
In Lithuania, the possibility was raised of deploying several hundred troops to Ukraine in the event of a ceasefire.
www.lrt.lt/pl/wiadomosc...
www.lrt.lt/pl/wiadomosc...
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These Russians thought they could go to Ukraine, kill people, and make money at the same time. But somewhere along the way, they miscalculated.
January 8, 2026 at 3:13 PM
These Russians thought they could go to Ukraine, kill people, and make money at the same time. But somewhere along the way, they miscalculated.
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De pensioenpopulist zat er ook nog eens erg naast. Geen verrassing want Henk Vermeer vond haar heel slim en dat is een garantie dat je het bij het verkeerde eind hebt.
January 8, 2026 at 4:47 PM
De pensioenpopulist zat er ook nog eens erg naast. Geen verrassing want Henk Vermeer vond haar heel slim en dat is een garantie dat je het bij het verkeerde eind hebt.
Met Wyoming, de Dakota's en West Virginia gaat de GOP komende verkiezingen niet winnen.....
January 8, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Met Wyoming, de Dakota's en West Virginia gaat de GOP komende verkiezingen niet winnen.....
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Note that once approval ratings start going down, they trend basically never reverses. Trump will remain politically weak and likely become politically weaker. There is no political downside to opposing authoritarianism.
January 7, 2026 at 1:23 PM
Note that once approval ratings start going down, they trend basically never reverses. Trump will remain politically weak and likely become politically weaker. There is no political downside to opposing authoritarianism.
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I always thought the term "cosplaying" was overused until ICE/CBP started showing up everywhere. Look at this guy, does he think it's Fallujah? (It's a high school in Minneapolis).
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
January 8, 2026 at 3:33 PM
I always thought the term "cosplaying" was overused until ICE/CBP started showing up everywhere. Look at this guy, does he think it's Fallujah? (It's a high school in Minneapolis).
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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Ah well. Can't disagree here really. Americans did vote for masked agents of the state to kill innocent people, whether they understood that at the time or not. Too bad they didn't listen to anyone who tried to explain it to them bsky.app/profile/atru...
January 8, 2026 at 4:07 PM
Ah well. Can't disagree here really. Americans did vote for masked agents of the state to kill innocent people, whether they understood that at the time or not. Too bad they didn't listen to anyone who tried to explain it to them bsky.app/profile/atru...
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🇪🇺🇯🇴 Our partnership is stronger than ever.
Today’s first EU–Jordan Summit marked one year of our Strategic and Comprehensive Partnership.
From deeper cooperation to reform and investment, we’re turning commitments into action for stability, resilience and shared prosperity ↓
link.europa.eu/tf8Gb4
Today’s first EU–Jordan Summit marked one year of our Strategic and Comprehensive Partnership.
From deeper cooperation to reform and investment, we’re turning commitments into action for stability, resilience and shared prosperity ↓
link.europa.eu/tf8Gb4
January 8, 2026 at 4:05 PM
🇪🇺🇯🇴 Our partnership is stronger than ever.
Today’s first EU–Jordan Summit marked one year of our Strategic and Comprehensive Partnership.
From deeper cooperation to reform and investment, we’re turning commitments into action for stability, resilience and shared prosperity ↓
link.europa.eu/tf8Gb4
Today’s first EU–Jordan Summit marked one year of our Strategic and Comprehensive Partnership.
From deeper cooperation to reform and investment, we’re turning commitments into action for stability, resilience and shared prosperity ↓
link.europa.eu/tf8Gb4
Russian military has stopped forming divisions based on pre-2022 templates. Instead, it is now focused on creating assault infantry-heavy formations that rely on light vehicles, with minimal air defense, artillery, and logistics components. euromaidanpress.com/2026/01/08/i...
ISW: Russia unlikely to rebuild battlefield losses and create strategic reserves at the same time - Euromaidan Press
Only a fraction of Moscow’s planned new units were actually formed, and those divisions appear undermanned and under-equipped.
euromaidanpress.com
January 8, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Russian military has stopped forming divisions based on pre-2022 templates. Instead, it is now focused on creating assault infantry-heavy formations that rely on light vehicles, with minimal air defense, artillery, and logistics components. euromaidanpress.com/2026/01/08/i...
Kannibalisme, separatisme en sociaal darwinisme kloppen aan bij huize Wierd Duk uit de hoek van de Baudetfans en Putinversteher. Koekjes van eigen deeg.
En Lidewij erkent haar gebrek aan gezag in die kringen.
En Lidewij erkent haar gebrek aan gezag in die kringen.
January 8, 2026 at 3:23 PM
Kannibalisme, separatisme en sociaal darwinisme kloppen aan bij huize Wierd Duk uit de hoek van de Baudetfans en Putinversteher. Koekjes van eigen deeg.
En Lidewij erkent haar gebrek aan gezag in die kringen.
En Lidewij erkent haar gebrek aan gezag in die kringen.
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Raymond Mens is de Victor Vlam onder de Maarten van Rossems
January 8, 2026 at 3:07 PM
Raymond Mens is de Victor Vlam onder de Maarten van Rossems
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“Amerika deskundige”
Raymond Mens beweert dat het regime-Maduro 20 miljoen vluchtelingen heeft veroorzaakt. Een hele prestatie als je land maar 28 miljoen inwoners telt.
January 8, 2026 at 1:03 PM
“Amerika deskundige”
Horen we verder ooit nog iets van dat zeldzame, ongelooflijk deskundige genie uit @partijnsc.bsky.social NSC, dat overliep naar @boerburgerbeweging.bsky.social BBB?
January 8, 2026 at 2:50 PM
Horen we verder ooit nog iets van dat zeldzame, ongelooflijk deskundige genie uit @partijnsc.bsky.social NSC, dat overliep naar @boerburgerbeweging.bsky.social BBB?
Trumps NAVO-ambassadeur gelooft blijkbaar nadrukkelijk wél in klimaatverandering en probeert daar nu alvast geopolitieke consequenties aan te verbinden.
NATO Ambassador Whitaker on Greenland: "As the ice recedes and we do have some thawing and passageways open up in the arctic, obviously the approaches to the US in North America are more dangerous." (So global warming isn't a hoax apparently ... )
January 8, 2026 at 2:11 PM
Trumps NAVO-ambassadeur gelooft blijkbaar nadrukkelijk wél in klimaatverandering en probeert daar nu alvast geopolitieke consequenties aan te verbinden.
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Energy Secretary Wright: "Trump sent the message to our allies in the Middle East & around the world that we want a better energized world as opposed to chasing some climate change demon, which just made everything more expensive and by the way did nothing about global greenhouse gas emissions."
January 8, 2026 at 1:56 PM
Energy Secretary Wright: "Trump sent the message to our allies in the Middle East & around the world that we want a better energized world as opposed to chasing some climate change demon, which just made everything more expensive and by the way did nothing about global greenhouse gas emissions."
Nationaal kabinet van de drie grote 'families' in tijden van geopolitieke troebelen. Christendemocraten, sociaaldemocraten en liberalen samen en in alliantie met de andere constructieve groepen. Partijen die de anti-EU-defensie motie-Eerdmans steunden horen daar dan niet bij: PVV, BBB, NSC.
January 8, 2026 at 1:10 PM
Nationaal kabinet van de drie grote 'families' in tijden van geopolitieke troebelen. Christendemocraten, sociaaldemocraten en liberalen samen en in alliantie met de andere constructieve groepen. Partijen die de anti-EU-defensie motie-Eerdmans steunden horen daar dan niet bij: PVV, BBB, NSC.
Hoe de EU zich geopolitiek allengs verder profileert. Jordanië zoekt bondgenoten en plechtankers.
Thank you, Your Majesty King Abdullah II, for your hospitality and warm welcome in Amman at our first-ever summit.
Jordan is a long standing partner of Europe in the Middle East. And a cornerstone of regional stability.
Jordan is a long standing partner of Europe in the Middle East. And a cornerstone of regional stability.
January 8, 2026 at 12:24 PM
Hoe de EU zich geopolitiek allengs verder profileert. Jordanië zoekt bondgenoten en plechtankers.
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Today, we published the results of the DMA review consultation.
450+ contributions show broad support and indicate the DMA has already brought benefits, with calls to strengthen interoperability, data access and SME support.
The review report will be presented in May 2026 ↓
link.europa.eu/H3pY7c
450+ contributions show broad support and indicate the DMA has already brought benefits, with calls to strengthen interoperability, data access and SME support.
The review report will be presented in May 2026 ↓
link.europa.eu/H3pY7c
January 8, 2026 at 12:01 PM
Today, we published the results of the DMA review consultation.
450+ contributions show broad support and indicate the DMA has already brought benefits, with calls to strengthen interoperability, data access and SME support.
The review report will be presented in May 2026 ↓
link.europa.eu/H3pY7c
450+ contributions show broad support and indicate the DMA has already brought benefits, with calls to strengthen interoperability, data access and SME support.
The review report will be presented in May 2026 ↓
link.europa.eu/H3pY7c
Hopelijk lang genoeg voor het onvermijdelijk uiteenvallen van een opportunistisch samenraapsel uit FvD, NSC, PVV en LPF.
January 8, 2026 at 12:13 PM
Hopelijk lang genoeg voor het onvermijdelijk uiteenvallen van een opportunistisch samenraapsel uit FvD, NSC, PVV en LPF.
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PZC:"Hoe lang zit JA21 nog in de wacht".
Toch bizar dat een verliezende partij, met rampzalig trackrecord, het land opnieuw kan gijzelen. Waarom wordt de VVD die positie gegund? Het moet, na alles wat we meemaakten toch voor iedereen helder zijn dat we dat soort avonturen niet meer moeten doen.
Toch bizar dat een verliezende partij, met rampzalig trackrecord, het land opnieuw kan gijzelen. Waarom wordt de VVD die positie gegund? Het moet, na alles wat we meemaakten toch voor iedereen helder zijn dat we dat soort avonturen niet meer moeten doen.
January 8, 2026 at 12:05 PM
PZC:"Hoe lang zit JA21 nog in de wacht".
Toch bizar dat een verliezende partij, met rampzalig trackrecord, het land opnieuw kan gijzelen. Waarom wordt de VVD die positie gegund? Het moet, na alles wat we meemaakten toch voor iedereen helder zijn dat we dat soort avonturen niet meer moeten doen.
Toch bizar dat een verliezende partij, met rampzalig trackrecord, het land opnieuw kan gijzelen. Waarom wordt de VVD die positie gegund? Het moet, na alles wat we meemaakten toch voor iedereen helder zijn dat we dat soort avonturen niet meer moeten doen.
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This is why, in his Discourses on the First Ten Books of Titus Livy, Machiavelli calls the method of violent conquest “quite useless”. He even called it “the Athenian method”, referring specifically to their failed strategy of scorning allies and using brute force to impose its will.
People who fancy quoting the Melian Dialogue ("the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must") ignore the fact that Thucydides was clearly portraying this as the kind of hubris that squandered Athens' primacy and paved the way for a devastating peer war that it ultimately lost.
January 8, 2026 at 12:06 PM
This is why, in his Discourses on the First Ten Books of Titus Livy, Machiavelli calls the method of violent conquest “quite useless”. He even called it “the Athenian method”, referring specifically to their failed strategy of scorning allies and using brute force to impose its will.
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"Dit gedrag ondermijnt de missie van de universiteit,” waarschuwt UvA examencommissie-voorzitter @saskiabonjour.bsky.social over de UGent-rector Petra De Sutter, die volgende week een eredoctoraat op de UvA krijgt. De Sutter heeft Albert Einstein geciteerd met uitspraken die hij nooit heeft gedaan.
Krijgt Vlaamse rector die AI-fouten maakte alsnog eredoctoraat van de UvA? - ScienceGuide
“Dit gedrag ondermijnt de missie van de universiteit,” waarschuwt UvA examencommissie-voorzitter Saskia Bonjour over de UGent-rector Petra De Sutter, die volgende week een eredoctoraat krijgt van de U...
www.scienceguide.nl
January 8, 2026 at 11:26 AM
"Dit gedrag ondermijnt de missie van de universiteit,” waarschuwt UvA examencommissie-voorzitter @saskiabonjour.bsky.social over de UGent-rector Petra De Sutter, die volgende week een eredoctoraat op de UvA krijgt. De Sutter heeft Albert Einstein geciteerd met uitspraken die hij nooit heeft gedaan.