>When you look what Russia is producing now in three months, it's what all of NATO is producing from Los Angeles up to Ankara in a full year, and then Russia is not bigger than the Netherlands and Belgium combined as an economy, the two of you together is the Russian economy, and they're producing in three months what the whole of NATO is producing in the year. And don't forget, when you compare Russian numbers, that what you can buy in Russia for the same money is, of course, much more because they do not have our high salaries. They don't have our bureaucracy. They can move at a higher speed, and they have basically created a war economy, and the whole industry is now on a war footing. So don't compare their 8% or 9% defence spending, 1/3 of the of the 8% or 9% of GDP, 1/3 of the whole state budget being spent on defence. When you cobble it all together, it might be less than what the European NATO is doing. But again, you can buy so much more, do so much more, and they have this urgent need to get there.

I thought this bit was interesting not in terms of politics but economics. Food for thoughts.

> I thought this bit was interesting not in terms of politics but economics. Food for thoughts.

Yes, it would be very nice, from an economics point of view, to know who pays him to make such statements. Because the majority of politicians advocating such things are paid, directly or indirectly, by the military industrial complex.

Big question is quality though and how it all is used. They are fighting against Ukraine that has at best 1/5 as many people and they are barely advancing at all. This is not sustainable and they know it.

Don't believe anything this snake says, wants, or does will lead to anything good.

During his time as prime minister he has ruined the Netherlands.

Also under his watch, hundreds - maybe thousands - of families were ruined, both financially and socially, by the Dutch IRS ("toeslagenschandaal" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_childcare_benefits_scand...)

In other words: He loves to make and see people suffer. And now he has the authority to not do that just to the Dutch, my people, but to EVERYONE.

Most of you out here despise Donald Trump. Most of the people in the Netherlands despise Mark Rutte as much as you despise Donald Trump. Hell, we probably even despise Rutte even more than you despise Trump (!).

Yes, he is that evil.