The pledge comes on top of an earlier promise to send Ukraine 18 fighters.

The Dutch government today said it would send Ukraine six additional F-16 fighter jets after cancelling the planned sale of the aircraft to a private contractor, said Defense Minister Kajsa Ollongren.

      • Akasazh@feddit.nlEnglish
        31·
        9 months ago

        Just to translate for my countryman /u/omgarm:

        ‘I won’t tolerate this. I’ll see you after school behind the bicycle parking… or else.’

        Being a quintessentially Dutch high school type of inviting you to fisticuffs. And also our most severe declaration of war since the trema/umlaut war with Germany.

          • Akasazh@feddit.nlEnglish
            2·
            9 months ago

            Horrible language still tho ;)

            Yeah not the most aesthetically pleasing, for sure, however it has its good sides, just like Swahili.

            It’s main point is to confuse English speakers who try to learn German and to provoke the German extreme right by using guttural sounds that are only common in Hebrew.

            However we’re the most prolific communicators in foreign languages because of our communal minority complex, so we’ve got that going for us.

            • JustUseMint@lemmy.worldEnglish
              4·
              9 months ago

              How’s the old saying?

              You speak English because it’s all you know

              I speak English because it’s all you know

              Haha