Russia and Ukraine flashpoint

[S.Peelman]

Bofferbrauer2 said:

S.Peelman said:

As a Dutchman I can probably safely say that pretty much every one in my very European country thinks Putin is a war criminal, and should be in The Hague to answer for his idiocy sooner rather than later, mr. Amnesia.

Same here in Luxembourg, where he's often ridiculed as Vlad Putain (same meaning as in French) and increasingly compared to Bokassa.

Our right-wing party, ADR, dropped from ~12% to 7% in polls practically overnight simply because they don't want to hurt Putin or support Ukraine.

Here most rightwing parties have actually grown, according to polls, in the last few years, though Prime Minister Rutte's VVD has lost considerably. They have however actually mostly condemned Putin's actions and supported sanctions. Even Geert Wilders's party PVV, though he has been indifferent about sanctions saying they hurt us instead while not doing much against Russia. The only real supporter of Putin here is Thierry Baudet, the leader of the extreme-right party FvD, who recently even said that "Putin is a fantastic guy" and that "NATO and the 'American Empire' should fall". Needless to say indeed his party has lost a lot of support according to the polls this past year going from 5 seats of 150 (3%) at the last elections in 2021 to 3 (so 2%) in the last polls. Ironically though he could have been huge, he was at 28 seats (about 19%) at one point in polls some years ago, before the previous elections, until he started to become.. well, mentally insane really. I guess we dodged a bullet there as a country.

Last edited by S.Peelman - on 16 January 2023