by Oui
Tue Feb 11th, 2025 at 09:25:00 AM EST
Dutch Naval ships sail through the Taiwan Straits as warning to China and its 1.4 billion inhabitants. Roughly a hundred-fold the size of the Low Country. The days of the VOC still clear in memory of the colonial power of the Dutch across Formosa, Indonesia, South Africa, Guinea, Brazil, Caribbean and New Amsterdam.
The Dutch East India Company and Its Taiwanese Legacy
Dutch Ship Ramming Spanish Galley (1617) by Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom
Dutch-American Stories: Johnny Adams goes Dutch
Navy ships meet up with Dutch frigate for rare training in South China Sea | Stars and Stripes |
A pair of U.S. Navy ships took advantage of a rare chance to train alongside a Dutch vessel this week in the South China Sea, according to U.S. 7th Fleet.
The littoral combat ship USS Mobile, the dry cargo ship USNS Wally Schirra and the Dutch frigate HNLMS Tromp focused on maneuvers, communications and "routine bilateral surface operations," fleet spokeswoman Lt. Jamie Moroney told Stars and Stripes by email Thursday.
She declined to say exactly where the training took place, citing operational security concerns.
"The Netherlands is one of our oldest, continuous bilateral relationships, stemming from the 18th century," Capt. Sean Lewis, commander of Destroyer Squadron 7, said in a 7th Fleet news release. "I look forward to any opportunity to work together with partners and allies, especially at sea."
The German Fist
Just a reconnaissance mission as in the old days of European colonialism, protecting our economic interests.
Michael, shake hands with US Congressional heroin Speaker Pelosi ...
German MP criticizes China for opposing Taiwan Strait transit plans
"A transit is not a provocation," Roth clarified. "We stand for peace and security in the Taiwan Strait and oppose any unilateral and violent changes to the status quo by China. It is a misconception to think that leniency will lead China to reconsider."
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In chat with new NATO SG Mark Rutte ...
"The Euro-Atlantic and the Indo-Pacific
are inextricably linked and on the need
for greater cooperation and understanding
between regions." -- Marco Rubio.
So Rutte got his marching orders to protect American Interests in the Western Pacific with focus on Taiwan in particular, a province claimed by the CPC.
NATO grew larger in the Afghan campaign far outside its territory for defense of Europe .... followed by the illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq, bombing and destroying Libya en route to Northern Syria to overthrow the Ba'ath regime of the Assad family.
Following the design of PNAC ...
So Russia was dared to defend its interests in Eastern Ukraine, Luhansk and Donetsk in addition to its long lease of Sevastopol Naval base on the Crimea peninsula. NATO and the European Union encroaching on the security and very existence of the Russian Federation.
Not forgetting the hot zone, Eastern Frontier with a dangerous 20th century adversary the Russian Federation ...
Proud to be a partner of European Economic Defense Zone with America ...
Who sabotaged Nord Stream pipelines? US boasts 'tremendous opportunity' to weaken Russia. CIA knew | Geopolitical Economy |
Covert acts agent MI6-CIA Radek Sikorski ... "Thank You America!"
The Most Consequential Act of Sabotage in Modern Times | The Atlantic - 13 Dec. 2024 |
