You’d almost think there’s a reason nobody voted for them.
(Or not, I’ve never heard of them)
Edit: Its sarcasm. You’d think that’s obvious, but I guess.
This is really what I would call a storm in a glass of water.
Understandable, our ministers generally have no idea what their jobs entail. She likely didn’t actually know what country she was in anyway.
Her [wikipedia](https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadja_Lahbib) page underlines that she has no single shred of competence or political experience while currently heading 4 separate posts…
Vive la Belgique!
It’s almost like she was a journalist. And went there to report in a relatively objective way. almost like this person was not a politician at the time…
A journalist travels through Russia to get to Crimea to do a piece there as you can’t get there from unoccupied Ukrainian territory. That’s essentially what they are complaining about.
About her defense that she was “just” a journalist at this time… Yes, journalists go to Crimea to report there…But the way she went is NOT the way journalists go there. They have to cross by land between Ukraine and Crimea legally, with the propper accrediations. She perfectly knew that going another way (through Russia) was illegal and against international law. Not to mention the ambiguous message about who Crimea belongs too.
Journalist or not, I don’t find her any excuses. She exactly knew what she was doing.
Funny how we break down somebody for the words they have spoken a decent time ago remotely linked to the position they have gotten today
Journalists will say and do what is best to provide the least amount of possible dangerous conflict, in order to get as good of a report done as possible.. It’s the diplomatic side of the job..
She did nothing wrong here.. and it should only be looked/regarded as something she did to perform her job as efficiently as possible, and not any means of personal opinion..
It has zero to do with her current job, or her having any (pre)disposition either one way or the other..
& Peter De Roover should really not be throwing any very trollish shade at this.. considering his party are strong supporters of Israel & Saudi-Arabia.. (and a bunch of very shady international corporate lobbies)…
Peter de roover , go figure. Maybe instead of pointing fingers everywhere and act the victim do some shit eh? These nationalist morons are fond of navel gazing and blaming other people. Largest party in Flanders but can’t build a federal government, i call that failure. If you can’t communicate and compromise gtfo.
Fire her if true, no merci stupid girl
Feels much more like a “not touching this with a 10 ft pole” attitude rather than a pro-Russia one, tbh. Which is fair, for a journalist.
Politically insensitive and inappropriate to make her minister of *foreign affairs*. But hey, it’s the French side, so don’t expect anything to change about it.
Is that the only thing they can find about her?
Her respond
“En faisant le tour de mes réseaux sociaux, vous avez visiblement raté le fait que j’étais journaliste avant d’être ministre”, a déclaré l’ancienne présentatrice du JT de la RTBF. “Ce voyage faisait partie de mon travail de journaliste”
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You’d almost think there’s a reason nobody voted for them.
(Or not, I’ve never heard of them)
Edit: Its sarcasm. You’d think that’s obvious, but I guess.
This is really what I would call a storm in a glass of water.
Understandable, our ministers generally have no idea what their jobs entail. She likely didn’t actually know what country she was in anyway.
Her [wikipedia](https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadja_Lahbib) page underlines that she has no single shred of competence or political experience while currently heading 4 separate posts…
Vive la Belgique!
It’s almost like she was a journalist. And went there to report in a relatively objective way. almost like this person was not a politician at the time…
A journalist travels through Russia to get to Crimea to do a piece there as you can’t get there from unoccupied Ukrainian territory. That’s essentially what they are complaining about.
About her defense that she was “just” a journalist at this time… Yes, journalists go to Crimea to report there…But the way she went is NOT the way journalists go there. They have to cross by land between Ukraine and Crimea legally, with the propper accrediations. She perfectly knew that going another way (through Russia) was illegal and against international law. Not to mention the ambiguous message about who Crimea belongs too.
Journalist or not, I don’t find her any excuses. She exactly knew what she was doing.
Funny how we break down somebody for the words they have spoken a decent time ago remotely linked to the position they have gotten today
Journalists will say and do what is best to provide the least amount of possible dangerous conflict, in order to get as good of a report done as possible.. It’s the diplomatic side of the job..
She did nothing wrong here.. and it should only be looked/regarded as something she did to perform her job as efficiently as possible, and not any means of personal opinion..
It has zero to do with her current job, or her having any (pre)disposition either one way or the other..
& Peter De Roover should really not be throwing any very trollish shade at this.. considering his party are strong supporters of Israel & Saudi-Arabia.. (and a bunch of very shady international corporate lobbies)…
Peter de roover , go figure. Maybe instead of pointing fingers everywhere and act the victim do some shit eh? These nationalist morons are fond of navel gazing and blaming other people. Largest party in Flanders but can’t build a federal government, i call that failure. If you can’t communicate and compromise gtfo.
Fire her if true, no merci stupid girl
Feels much more like a “not touching this with a 10 ft pole” attitude rather than a pro-Russia one, tbh. Which is fair, for a journalist.
Politically insensitive and inappropriate to make her minister of *foreign affairs*. But hey, it’s the French side, so don’t expect anything to change about it.
Is that the only thing they can find about her?
Her respond
“En faisant le tour de mes réseaux sociaux, vous avez visiblement raté le fait que j’étais journaliste avant d’être ministre”, a déclaré l’ancienne présentatrice du JT de la RTBF. “Ce voyage faisait partie de mon travail de journaliste”