Dutchman who lived and worked for 40+ years in UK. English wife and I escaped Brexit to sunny France. Elsewhere as [email protected]
Eymet, France
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Rien van Keulen - EU citizen in France #FBPE #NAFO retweeted
Did you hear? Zelenskyy is now officially accusing the United States under Trump of helping Russia in the war against Ukraine, stating, this betrayal will never be forgotten.
I stand with Ukraine. 🇺🇦
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The wounded are being evacuated from Dnipro railway station to hospitals.
My account on X appears to be throttled, so please share this. People need to see this blatant attack on civilians.
I’m heading down there shortly.
Rien van Keulen - EU citizen in France #FBPE #NAFO retweeted
These motherfuckers didn’t just screw over a Pope with cancer. The whole Oleshky story is a Putin information operation designed to save that old orange ass from electoral defeat.
Guys, this needs to become an atomic bomb for the bastards in the White House. If you haven’t written about it yet, share this post. As many people as possible need to know this story.
What I had previously only suspected on instinct has now been confirmed.
It turns out that the absurd “Melania Trump ceasefire” in Oleshky was literally Putin’s idea. He personally “very much wanted” Melania to act as mediator, her senior adviser Mark Beckman told the Kyiv Independent.
Well, you could have guessed that, and I did immediately. A person who can barely string two words together was hardly going to organize something like this better than the Pope.
More than that, Putin sent her a special letter saying that Russia officially recognized Melania as its “exclusive intermediary.”
Do you understand what that means?
Russia has occupied Oleshky for four and a half years, blocked the city, prevented humanitarian aid from getting in, and driven the remaining residents into an acute shortage of food and medicine.
And then Putin picks Trump’s wife as the person who will be allowed to “solve” the problem.
And he does it right before the elections, when Trump’s collapsing ratings desperately need saving. Trump, the politician who is now effectively helping Putin force Ukraine into capitulation.
The White House has already announced that it was Melania who “secured the ceasefire,” while four journalists from Newsmax, Trump’s pet TV network, have been sent to Oleshky as “neutral observers” to present the entire operation to an American audience in exactly the right light.
You can bet your ass they won’t just advertise the orange ape as the greatest humanitarian genius in human history. They’ll advertise Putin right alongside him.
John Foreman, the former British defense attaché in Moscow and Kyiv, is calling this exactly what it is: a deliberate Kremlin operation. “They know exactly what they’re doing.” According to him, allowing Melania to take credit for the ceasefire gives Russia a way to present the Trumps to the MAGA audience as peacemakers immediately before the midterms.
In other words, Moscow first creates a humanitarian catastrophe, then allows the family of the U.S. president to stage a spectacular “rescue” of that catastrophe in order to save themselves from political disaster.
Fuck, I genuinely don’t have enough words to express how unbelievably vile and disgusting this is. I’m choking on the hatred of it.
They have turned one of the largest man-made humanitarian catastrophes of the 21st century into a fucking medal pinned to an orange ass.
Rien van Keulen - EU citizen in France #FBPE #NAFO retweeted
🇺🇦💥🇷🇺 UKRAJINA VYHNALA RUSKÉ VOJÁKY Z PLYNOVODU. PŘES 30 ZAJATCŮ PŘI OPERACI VELES U KUPJANSKU!
Ruští vojáci vylézali z plynovodu poblíž Kupjansku. Uniformy měli pokryté špínou a vzdávali se ukrajinským jednotkám.
Ukrajinský sbor Chartija během operace Veles zajal více než 30 ruských vojáků.
Operace zahrnovala odvážný podzemní postup dlouhý přes 15 kilometrů.
Ruské síly používaly plynovody k přesunu vojáků a zásob mimo dohled ukrajinských dronů. Ukrajina však tuto skrytou trasu obrátila proti nim.
Podle výpovědí zajatců strávili ruští vojáci přibližně šest týdnů uvěznění v zablokované části potrubí, než jim došlo jídlo, voda a munice.
Stísněný prostor, omezená viditelnost a žádná úniková cesta.
👇 Jak dlouho ještě obstojí ruská podzemní taktika proti ukrajinským protiopatřením?
🇺🇦 Sláva Ukrajině!
Rien van Keulen - EU citizen in France #FBPE #NAFO retweeted
You know, I've been racking my brain trying to remember when else in history a great military power launched a war of aggression against a neighboring country, failed to defeat it on the battlefield for years -- and then the leadership of another great power (which the aggressor had regarded as its archenemy until just yesterday!!) engaged in petty, sordid collusion with the aggressor, made a complete 180-degree turn, and began actively working to force its undefeated victim into capitulation and extinction as a nation.
I'm honestly trying to think of historical precedents -- but it seems that never before in the history of this world under the heavens has there been such a spectacular display of deranged idiocy.
Rien van Keulen - EU citizen in France #FBPE #NAFO retweeted
Zelenskyy is now officially accusing the U.S. under Trump of helping Russia in the war against Ukraine—This betrayal will never be forgotten.
I stand with Ukraine.
Rien van Keulen - EU citizen in France #FBPE #NAFO retweeted
I’ll take a shot at answering one of these good questions. These poor young people are not dying for "no reason". They’re dying because Vladimir Putin's Russia invaded Ukraine and Ukrainians don’t want to be murdered. I hope this helps.
Rien van Keulen - EU citizen in France #FBPE #NAFO retweeted
Ik zal het in Jip-en-Janneketaal uitleggen:
Er was eens een land, mensen noemen het Oekraïne, en de mensen daar waren vrij en gelukkig.
Ze gingen naar school, naar de kerk, naar de winkels. Ze gingen ook dansen en bordspelletjes doen. De mensen daar waren vrij.
Maar op een dag zei een boze buurman: “dit pik ik niet!”
En toen ging die buurman met tanks en bommen en granaten naar de lieve Oekraïners toe.
Hij wilde de Oekraïners in 3 dagen allemaal doodmaken. De schoft!
In het dorpje Bucha gingen de vrienden van de boze meneer allemaal mensen doodmaken en martelen en verkrachten. En toen ging hij de kinderen ontvoeren naar zijn eigen land.
De baas van Oekraïne geloofde zijn ogen niet en gaf de indringers die naar zijn hoofdstad kwamen van jetje.
De baas van Oekraïne belde ook zijn vrienden en die gingen hem helpen.
Toen werd de baas van Rusland nog bozer. Hij ging met raketten schieten op ziekenhuizen en kerken en scholen en supermarkten om zoveel mogelijk onschuldige mensen dood te maken.
Twee van de vriendjes van Oekraïne vonden dat na verloop van tijd vet stoer van de grote boze Poetin.
Ze gingen de boze meneer helpen. Ze zorgden ervoor dat als de boze buurman raketten op de lieve Oekraïeners afvuurde, dat ze dan lekker niets gingen zeggen.
Het hielp echt. De nieuwe vriendjes van Poetin: Musk en Trump gingen feest vieren en taart eten omdat ze een baby in een kinderwagen én haar moeder helemaal dood hadden gemaakt in een speeltuintje. Ze kraaiden van geluk.
De vriend van de boze buurman, Trump, had de smaak te pakken en ging ook andere mensen doodmaken. In Iran. Gewoon, omdat hij het kon. Hij ging met al zijn allervetste raketten schieten op die mensen.
Maar de mensen in Iran vonden dat asociaal en zeiden tegen de meneer dat hij dan mooi geen olie meer kreeg.
Lekker puh. Zeiden ze.
De mensen in Amerika waar de grote oranje meneer de baas van was vonden dat helemaal niet leuk. Ze moesten opeens heel veel centjes betalen om te tanken.
Toen bedacht de baas van Amerika een slimme list. Hij zei dat alles duur was geworden door de baas van Oekraïne.
Niemand geloofde de boze gemene Trump op een paar mensen na. Een heel apart volkje. Het waren rare mensen met heel weinig tanden en die gingen kindjes maken met hun broertjes en zusjes en een speciaal drankje ‘moosnshine’ maken om te drinken in hun trailer.
Als ze de moonshine hadden gedronken werd de vader van het gezin, die vaak ‘Trevor’ heette, ziedend.
Hij ging dan altijd de moeder van het gezin met een bowlingbal in haar gezicht slaan. Daarna ging hij dan tevreden en voldaan naar zijn truck om er allerlei politieke statements op te plakken. En een Amerikaanse vlag.
De baas van Oekraïne vond dat nogal afwijkend gedrag. Hij vond er echt wat van. Je zou kunnen zeggen dat hij er afstand van nam.
Hij had nog maar een paar vrienden over die allemaal in Europa wonen. Hij was ook heel erg moe en teleurgesteld.
De mensen in Europa beloofden hem te gaan helpen. Dat was wel aardig, maar niemand weet of hij daarmee kan winnen van de boze buurman.
Als hij verliest dan zijn zijn vrienden aan de beurt. Daarom vecht de baas van Oekraïne uit alle macht tegen de boze buurman. Om zijn mensen en zijn vrienden in Europa te beschermen.
Rien van Keulen - EU citizen in France #FBPE #NAFO retweeted
My last 8 posts barely getting 500 views each, I have nearly 70,000 followers
Go figure….
I’m being “Starlinked”
Rien van Keulen - EU citizen in France #FBPE #NAFO retweeted
Trump raped a 13 year old girl.
Pass it on.
Rien van Keulen - EU citizen in France #FBPE #NAFO retweeted
Can we get this shared 10,000 times?
"War crimes don't hide sex crimes!"
Rien van Keulen - EU citizen in France #FBPE #NAFO retweeted
BREAKING: A reporter asked Mike Johnson today, “Should we bother asking you a question about Jared Kushner treasonously manipulating US foreign policy behind Marco Rubio’s back with billions in laundered bribes sitting in secret bank accounts, or have you not heard about it yet?"
Rien van Keulen - EU citizen in France #FBPE #NAFO retweeted
Absolutely cooked this BBC propagandist. More of this 👏
Rien van Keulen - EU citizen in France #FBPE #NAFO retweeted
🇺🇦 “I’m not used to talking much. My job is to work and deliver results.”
— Max, commander of the training grounds’ logistics unit
💙💛 Fellas,
Please take a minute to listen to Max.
His unit’s work is crucial: they build training grounds where soldiers can receive additional training right on the front lines.
This training gives Ukrainian defenders a better chance of surviving and returning home to their families.
Thanks to you, we’ve already raised $4,000, and Max’s unit has received many of the tools on their list!
We’re just $1,100 away from fully equipping these guys for the job.
Please enter our raffle and help save the lives of Ukrainian soldiers.
Entry: $5
Details below.
Please share 🙏
Thank you,
Natalka
🇺🇦 My Dearest Fellas,
Please Help Train Ukrainian Defenders: Enter the Raffle to Support the AFU Training Ground Logistics Unit!
This is my friend Max. I've known him for most of my life. Max is in charge of a newly formed unit that sets up training grounds.
I don't need to explain to you the importance of training for soldiers — it literally saves lives.
However, training hundreds of soldiers daily requires reliable logistics, specialized equipment, and tools.
Max and his unit will soon start operating in eastern Ukraine along the front lines.
This means that dugouts will need to be built as quickly as possible, and everything will have to be set up for the instructors in the minimum amount of time.
Unfortunately, their unit lacks the tools needed to operate quickly and efficiently (see the list in the thread below).
I want to help Max's unit get what they need because it wouldn't just mean helping one soldier or one unit — it'll boost the combat readiness and survival rate of countless units.
As the first prize, I’m offering something very special to me — my “Ukraine Loves NAFO” painting. The 2nd and 3rd place winners will get “Ukraine” signed 20×20 posters.
Entry: $5
Please participate and please share!
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Rien van Keulen - EU citizen in France #FBPE #NAFO retweeted
I’ve decided that I will continue sharing this picture.
Too many people have told me that sharing their faces will ruin their future.
I keep responding the same way:
Sweetie, that’s what I’m counting on.
Rien van Keulen - EU citizen in France #FBPE #NAFO retweeted
This is Angelina. She was 1 year old.
She was murdered today when Russian strikes purposely targeted a children’s playground in Kharkiv. Ukraine.
Angelina’s mother was also killed along with an 11 year old girl and 3 other people.
The Russians are a cancer on this earth.
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy is the most respected political leader in the world, and rightfully so.
Donald Trump is the most despised political leader in the world, and rightfully so.
Rien van Keulen - EU citizen in France #FBPE #NAFO retweeted
An important study that deserves to be shared as widely as possible within the English-speaking world.
Last night, our friends at the *Militarnyi* portal published an English-language article containing a technical analysis of the onboard computer from a Russian jet-powered drone—the "Geran-4."
Of the 105 components identified, 80 come from American companies; Texas Instruments alone (including components from National Semiconductor, which was acquired by TI in 2011) accounts for 58.1% of the total.
In short: this points to a systemic reliance on Western electronics in this Russian attack drone.
For this reason, we have created a separate English-language "quote tweet" with commentary, in which we have tagged @TXInstruments directly.
We would appreciate it if you could share this post. 😉
Please tag journalists, American politicians, experts, and organizations involved in sanctions and export controls in the comments.
Our experience in disseminating such investigations shows that it is crucial to bring these findings to light beyond the Ukrainian "information bubble." They need to be seen by the manufacturers themselves, as well as by journalists, analysts, sanctions experts, American policymakers, and export control specialists.
Regardless of the current policy of the White House, the United States is much more than just a single administration or a single president. They include Congress, the media, industry experts, manufacturers, and government institutions—all of whom can raise the question of how American electronics end up in Russian attack drones on such a large scale. Therefore, such revelations must continue.
@informnapalm teapaw.org/InformNapalm/status/21…
Russia calls this “domestic production.”
Yet in the Geran-4 flight controller examined by Ukrainian specialists, no Russian-made electronics were found at all. Of 105 identified components, 80 came from 🇺🇸 U.S. companies — with @TXInstruments, including components from National Semiconductor acquired by TI in 2011, accounting for 58.1%.
#Russia #US #ExportControls
