BREAKING: The Netherlands just CANCELLED cooperation with the US, and BLASTED Trump for his crimes. Enjoy every word:
This was not a quiet policy tweak. It was an unprecedented public rebuke of Trump and his administration's crimes.
Defense Minister Ruben Brekelmans made it clear that Dutch forces will only operate inside their own territorial waters and will no longer join U.S. high-seas missions tied to Operation Southern Spear.
His words were BRUTAL.
“We have worked together with the Americans on counter-narcotics for many years, but in a different way,” Brekelmans said. “When we see drug smuggling, we try to arrest and prosecute those responsible. Not by shooting ships.”
Brekelmans went further, saying the Netherlands will not provide ships, helicopters, facilities, or support if Washington asks for help with Southern Spear. “The method and the operation the United States is carrying out now, they are really doing that themselves,” he said. “We are not participating in that.”
Dutch officials confirmed their naval station ship is now being used only for monitoring regional security, not for U.S.-led drug missions. Any counter-drug support will be limited strictly to Dutch territorial waters.
This public break comes as outrage grows over Trump’s decision to use military force to seize Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro, an escalation condemned internationally as a violation of sovereignty and international law. Brekelmans warned that rising tensions threaten regional stability, airspace, and security even if there is no immediate military threat to the Dutch Caribbean.
Every Western nation is finding a way to abandon Trump. Even the UK reportedly suspended intelligence sharing after the U.S. began launching lethal strikes on boats in the Caribbean.
This is what Trump’s authoritarian foreign policy looks like in practice: allies refusing to participate, democratic governments drawing lines in public, and the United States isolated because its president prefers violence over law.
he Netherlands didn’t whisper this. They said it out loud. And Trump has never looked weaker.
THANK YOU to The Netherlands, for standing up to our pathetic thug president.
7 comments:
Like most things it is impossible to get accurate news and your blanket statement is not correct.
A spokesperson for the Dutch defense ministry told POLITICO that cooperation with the United States has not been completely discontinued, noting that the Netherlands “has been working with the United States and other partners for many years”.
THIS IS ALSO FROM POLITICO:
January 6, 2026 4:07 pm CET
By Chris Lunday
"The Netherlands is scaling back its participation in U.S.-led counter-drug missions in the Caribbean, a reaction to the rising death toll from American military attacks on vessels suspected of being used to smuggle narcotics.
Speaking Monday evening in Aruba, Defense Minister Ruben Brekelmans said Dutch forces would continue drug interdiction within Dutch territorial waters, but would not use its naval “station ship” for interdictions on the high seas linked to the U.S. Operation Southern Spear.
The operation, launched in September, has killed more than 100 people in over 20 attacks on boats that the U.S. says were ferrying drugs."
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"A spokesperson for the Dutch defense ministry told POLITICO that cooperation with the United States has not been completely discontinued, noting that the Netherlands “has been working with the United States and other partners for many years” through Joint Interagency Task Force South.
What has changed, the spokesperson said, is the role of the Dutch station ship, which is currently being deployed for monitoring the regional security situation rather than being used for drug missions.
“Where necessary, it supports the Caribbean Coast Guard in counter-drug operations in the territorial waters of the Caribbean part of the Kingdom,” the spokesperson said.
Brekelmans made clear the Netherlands would not provide facilities, helicopters or other support if requested for Southern Spear, Washington's operation to target alleged drug vessels north of the Venezuelan coast."
Skud,
Have you seen the accurate news yet on the 2020 election?
You haven't answered my question. Do you believe Trump's Big Lie, too?
I'll take your silence as admitting you believe Trump.
Skud,
Are you joining Trump in blaming the victim murdered by an ICE agent?
"The woman screaming was, obviously, a professional agitator, and the woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer, who seems to have shot her in self defense. "
"BREAKING: The Netherlands just CANCELLED cooperation with the US"
As I posted, difficult to get accurate news and your lost above was not factual.
I didn't see much protest from you or anyone on the left when the previous president caused the murder of 13 American Soldiers, gave an enemy billions in arms to use against us and left people behind to deal with the US abandoning them.
skud, again, you didn't read my comment which quote the SAME POLITICAL ARTICLE FROM WHICH YOU GOT YOUR INFORMATION! I even posted what you quoted from the Political article:
"A spokesperson for the Dutch defense ministry told POLITICO that cooperation with the United States has not been completely discontinued, noting that the Netherlands “has been working with the United States and other partners for many years” through Joint Interagency Task Force South."
The Netherlands has not, as you wrote in you comment, completely discontinued with the U.S., but it has scaled back from what it did cooperate on with the U.S.
My post is accurate because I got the information from the same source as you did. Do you not read anything but comment anyway?
PS. What Biden did is not comparable to Trump invading a sovereign country, kidnapping its president and first lady, and then telling the world he would "run the country." And then proclaim that the next takeover would be another sovereign territory belonging to Denmark.
They're NOT the same things at all even if you try more whataboutisms. It doesn't work that way.
Skud, get a job with ICE. Right up your alley. Keep ya busy, ya know?
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