Now you all know how us dutchies felt. The weird thing is: it’s kind of his job, and he’s a silicon boy that does his job, leaves no papertrail and “doesn’t have an active memory” of important stuff… but he does do his job (as slippery and slimy as he needs to be)
He has to represent the interests of all NATO states, not just the US’. He may not have to criticise US’ stance on things, but he neither has to embody them. I can’t remember Stoltenberg doing any of this, and being accused of not doing his job.
Also, Dutch media have been pushing a frame that Rutte is carved out for this job so hard, that when he finally became SG they kept defending the despicable things he has said. All those slimey words do not even seem to be effective, as Trump keeps threatening Greenland and abandoning NATO.
This fucking rat
Independent’s owners: Evgeny Lebedev (41%), Sultan Muhammad Abuljadayel (30%)
What’s happening there?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evgeny_Lebedev
His full title is Baron Lebedev, of Hampton in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames and of Siberia in the Russian Federation.
Is there a shadow Russian imperial court?
His father was KGB. Would the British crown give a title to a Russian agent?
The third owner runs the food rescue organisation for London. How does that make enough money to buy a newspaper?
His father was KGB. Would the British crown give a title to a Russian agent?
The Tories can be bought and the crown basicaly does what the government says.
Unless you can substantiate that there is some kind of editorial line being pushed, this comment is just FUD playing on xenophobia (foreign sounding names scaaaaaary). Is there a Bari Weiss kind of character running the Independent?
More interesting would be to link to the MBFC page: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-independent/
Evgeny Lebedev is the son of a Russian oligarch former KGB spy and Sultan Muhammad Abuljadayel is a member of the Saudi royal family.
If your objection is to rich fucks owning media, I’m with you.
If your objection is to non western rich fucks owning western media, my reaction is a shrug.
All rich fucks became rich fucks by having some kind of fucked up backstory. Non western rich fucks exist. They are in not inherently worse than western rich fucks. All rich fucks should have no editorial say in media. Boo to any rich fuck who does get an editorial say, from Musk and Bezos on downwards.
