{"id":31040,"date":"2018-02-15T07:55:20","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T12:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=31040"},"modified":"2018-02-15T07:55:20","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T12:55:20","slug":"dutch-lies-over-putins-aggression-expose-nato-war-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=31040","title":{"rendered":"Dutch Lies Over Putin\u2019s \u2018Aggression\u2019 Expose NATO War Agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dutch Lies Over Putin\u2019s \u2018Aggression\u2019 Expose NATO War Agenda<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n

Netherlands Prime Minister Mark Rutte was this week forced to bear a parliamentary vote of no confidence after his foreign minister finally came clean over a dangerous lie he has been telling for two years concerning Russian President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n

Halbe Zijlstra quit in shame on Monday as the country\u2019s foreign minister after\u00a0admitting<\/a>\u00a0that a story he had peddled about personally hearing Putin plotting to create a \u201cgreater Russia\u201d was false. That then forced premier Rutte to endure a \u201cno confidence\u201d motion from parliamentarians. In the end, Rutte\u00a0survived<\/a>\u00a0the vote. If a majority had voted against his leadership, his coalition government may have collapsed.<\/p>\n

But the deep damage done to the Dutch authorities will not be so easily repaired by Rutte\u2019s survival as premier. What has been exposed this week is a senior member of government recklessly telling bare-faced lies in an attempt to slander Russia, poison international relations, and ratchet up already dangerous geopolitical tensions.<\/p>\n

Zijlstra had claimed two years ago, in 2016, that he had personally witnessed Russian leader Vladimir Putin boasting about creating a \u201cgreater Russia\u201d which, it is claimed, would incorporate Ukraine, the Baltic states, Belarus and Kazakhstan.<\/p>\n

The newly resigned Dutch top diplomat claimed he heard Putin making the remarks while present with others at the Russian leader\u2019s dacha (summer house) back in 2006.<\/p>\n

This week, Zijlstra finally came clean and admitted before parliament that he hadn\u2019t in fact been present at the alleged gathering. He still maintains, however, that a confidant who was among the guests at Putin\u2019s dacha informed him of the alleged \u201cgreater Russia\u201d plan. But how can we now trust the word of a self-confessed liar?<\/p>\n

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Dutch Lies Over Putin\u2019s \u2018Aggression\u2019 Expose NATO War Agenda Netherlands Prime Minister Mark Rutte was this week forced to bear a parliamentary vote of no confidence after his foreign minister finally came clean over a dangerous lie he has been telling for two years concerning Russian President Vladimir Putin. Halbe Zijlstra quit in shame on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[16113,18578,2864,18579,1426,553,1479,655,694,8203,857,18577],"class_list":["post-31040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-finian-cunningham","tag-halbe-zijlstra","tag-lies","tag-mark-rutte","tag-misinformation","tag-nato","tag-netherlands","tag-propaganda","tag-russia","tag-strategic-culture-foundation","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-war-agenda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31041,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31040\/revisions\/31041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}