Three bombs go off on an average night in the Netherlands, blowing out windows and sometimes causing injury or death.
the blasts, usually caused by illegal fireworks with the strength of a grenade, have created a sense of unease.
The explosions have shaken communities across the Netherlands: In the first half of this year, the authorities recorded nearly 700 such bombings. The explosions cause fear, damage homes and livelihoods, and have occasionally led to deaths or injuries.
This is last year’s news, no idea why the New York Times is reporting on it now. At least I’ve hardly read about this since last year.
One of these bombs, which are often used to intimidate (one particularly bad case is mentioned in the article), even targeted a house near mine in Rotterdam. I didn’t notice a thing, though.
No, it’s not. This happened this year (Dutch source).
Still, the article is fearmongering as 500 explosions include a whole bunch of idiots with illegal fireworks closely after the start of the new year. They are annoying, but fuck off quickly enough.
I mean this being something that’s widely reported on. It still happens, obviously.
Right wing fear mongering propaganda.
The corporate US wants absolute power and still have control of the far right enough to accomplish it.
The last thing they want is a populist left wing uprising, and by painting left wing bastions of Europe as chaotic and “under siege” they hope to prevent it from happening again.
I have a feeling left(ish) media in the US are trying to gain more right(ish) leaders / the whole US media landscape is moving right. Could also be that more Trump-aligned media is looking for international ‘news’ to deflect from national news. Both are speculations obviously i don’t know either.
Meanwhile GB News in Britain https://feddit.org/post/17133650