Premier De Wever pleit op VN-top, in tegenstelling tot Trump, voor “wederzijds respect” | VRT NWS: nieuws

by atrocious_cleva82

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  1. Great speech, he represented us well. I’m always surprised how much my views on where society should go align with De Wever, we just have completely different views on how to get there.

  2. >This is the first time Prime Minister De Wever has spoken at the UN General Assembly, so he briefly introduces himself. “I’m 54 years old. That means I was a teenager in the 1980s when Ronald Reagan was president of this country. A man I admired and still admire,” the Prime Minister begins.

    Ronald Reagan, maximum exponent of the cold war military escalation, the neoliberalism, advocating against black people right to vote, cutting down public services, reducing taxes and creating exceptions, and even with all those measures, never controlling deficit and making public debt triple…

    >With Reagan, the deficits were exacerbated by the early 1980s recession, which cut into federal revenue.[235] The national debt tripled between the fiscal years of 1980 and 1989, and the national debt as a percentage of the gross domestic product rose from 33 percent in 1981 to 53 percent by 1989. During his time in office, Reagan never fulfilled his 1980 campaign promise of submitting a balanced budget.

    >He initially opposed the establishment of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, believing that the momentum for establishing the holiday was “based on an image, not reality,”

    >Reagan opposed the [Voting Rights Act of 1965](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_Rights_Act_of_1965),

    [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan#Presidency_(1981%E2%80%931989)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan#Presidency_(1981%E2%80%931989))

    Not speaking about Reagan funding the mujahideen in Afghanistan, that later became the Taliban. Indeed Reagan a lot to admire, mr BDW…

    https://preview.redd.it/0k8yxmm0qgrf1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9edcb0f5c58b655a20ebda7041af20be9c9d6894

  4. Respect for a man who implicitly threatened to nuke the entire world?

    That’s not respect, that’s fear. Beware the individual who tells you to respect the person threatening violence against you.

  6. BDW simping for Ronald Reagan in his first ever UN speech was, weirdly, on my bingo card for 2025

  7. O waauw hoe oprecht! Geef hem ook maar de Nobelprijs dan. 🙄

  8. Admiring Ronald Reagan is not the flex you think it is…

    Also: I do not see anything from his speech being reflected in the way the country is currently being run?

  9. ‘Free speech’ is rich coming from the guy who filed a police report against a fellow politician due to ‘anti-semitism’ for expressing his distaste for BDW’s simping for Israel.

    Granted, the way he worded the letter was hatespeech (‘retarded jews’) but still.

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