Le moment de renvoyer les ambassadeurs américains en masse... C'est pas comme s'ils allaient nous faire un seul cadeau sur le dossier Ukrainien...

Europe has to show teeth @kajakallas.bsky.social ... Trump does not like losers, neither does Putin. Authoritarians do not value diplomacy and nice words, we have to punch back rethorically and politically with confidence, or risk being sidelined and laughed at

That guy has no moral clarity I am afraid. He is one of the most flawed pseudo-intellectual france has to offer.
Just another case of a broken clock still giving you the right hour twice a day.

Let's see, the pressure will be huge in the arizona coalition. Including from our neighbours so let's see.
On your last point, I am fully with you, I hope the street will put enough pressure to make the coalition collapse. The MR has started to lean far right and deserves to be classified as such

Honestly it's a wee more complex than that considering that Prevot the foreign minister from les Engagés is also on that line. Once the EU and all member states act the mutualisation of the financial risk, then yes I'll agree with you

I mean the Netherlands does not have the 140 billions frozen on its banking system.

Yes Rutte was much more prone to help on weapon provision, belgian has been weak but our army was weak and out of equipment due to stupid decisions in the past. They had to balance ukraine help with own rearmement

He has, belgian has for quite a while put risk sharing conditions for the assets to be seized but the no other member state have committed to do so... So it's an unfair statement imo, the biggest problem is the weakness of Germany & France on that front to set the tone and accept the risk

Would not be surprised if Bart would sign it off. There's not much I agree with him, but I cannot say the NVA and this gov is soft on defence or pro-Russian.

Internally, the country did a lot of shit. The whole story of the leopard 1 sale to a private company for peanuts stinks of corruption.

The interest of the assets are given to Ukraine. That has been the mechanism that Belgium has favored so far because it does not expose us to a financial risk.

We are a small country, 140 billion is larger than our state budget. All our politicians are against if the EU does not mutualise the risk

I have to say I really dislike his politics. But I also have to say that if Europe wants to do this, they have to agree to mutualise the risk for our country and they are not ready to do so.

It's easy to blame Belgium, but we could bankrupt our country ... And we need guarantees from the EU states

Takes into consideration the scientific consensus by throwing it in the bin and going against it ? 😅 We are talking about protected areas ...

Your party should just merge with the greens, in a green-left alliance. No point having two parties fighting for the same space