COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN RUSSIA INSIDER
"Abominably,
European government officials are willing to risk plunging millions of citizens
into a war with Russia based on lies and warped, self-serving
prejudices."
Halbe Zijlstra quit in
shame on Monday as the country’s foreign minister after admitting that a story
he had peddled about personally hearing Putin plotting to create a “greater
Russia” was false.
The Dutch are a supreme disappointment these days.
They have always been one of my more admired people.
A great epic history. Fantastic industry and invention. And
simply wonderful painting. All from a small country whose land is about a third
recovered from the sea.
But now that they are so constrained by America's imperial
grip, they do shameful thing after shameful thing - at an official level.
This terrible lie by the Dutch Foreign Minister at such a
troubled time. Yes, he's gone, but I’m sure he did a lot of damage.
The Dutch air crash investigators looking into MH-17 have
utterly shamed themselves with shady statements, half-truths, and incomplete
efforts.
