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Comment by gabagaul | Hacker News Reader

Time to spread some liberty and freedom in the Netherlands.

The US is not far from doing that. See the Hague Invasion Act.

Also I've been wondering why our Prime Minister has been so enthusiastically following US foreign policy lately. Turns out he's eyeing the NATO boss seat, and the US has the most important vote.

Remember de avondshow met lubach over "America first, Thr Netherlands second" https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ELD2AwFN9Nc

There is some truth in parody ;-)

Also that's what we do since WW2. We are a close ally of the US, use US weapons, usually follow them in foreign policy. So not very surprising imo.

This sounds more like a vassal than an ally. You "usually follow them in foreign policy"? Does that imply that sometimes the US follows you?

You're not the first to have that criticism, still our political class seems to think it's best to follow them.

I think we do have slightly more influence on the US than our size would merit.

Well there are various degrees of enthusiasm. Netherlands also claims to be a fighter for human rights, yet it immediately dropped UNRWA funding after unproven allegations about a handful of people (out of thousands) and thus letting civilians starve to death...

Human rights? Not true. (Oops did I say that out loud?).

I think Europe would do well not to repeat the Russian mistake with China.

Is there any need? We licensed them specifically the tech because it would have been unreasonable to have given it to the established players and because they bought SVGI.

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