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NEWS > EVERYONE ELSE > HARDLY ANYONE NOTICES AS DUTCH GOVERNMENT COLLAPSES
HARDLY ANYONE NOTICES AS DUTCH GOVERNMENT COLLAPSES
February 20 2010
Amsterdam, The Netherlands – Nations rise and fall. This is a simple truth of the world that few can truly come to terms with. No nation, no matter how great, has ever maintained its hold on power for lengthy periods of time and more often than
not, great civilizations become relegated to history. The Phoenicians, the Mesopotamians, the Iberians, the Nubians, the Mayans, the Aztecs, the Khmer are all examples of great peoples who helped to bring about society, but who have also all fallen into the long record of history with little or no presence in the modern world.
Those civilizations are not just merely examples of fallen peoples, they are signposts to a future where inevitably many of the great nations of today will also be relegated to the past. Already we have seen those falls in the people of Greece and Mongolia, collapses which inevitably will only further erode those nations going forward. Even today with countries such as Portugal, Spain, France, and the United Kingdom possessing just fractions of their former power we can see the future being played out through our historical examples. 
One such nation that has fallen far from her heights is The Netherlands, a nation which fairly recently was one of the few that truly changed the modern world. Now though the country has become an also ran, a haven for travelling University students and the centre of drug culture rather than the global mover and shaker of times past. Now with the collapse of the Dutch government, and the related indifference by the public and neighbouring nations, that descent into history seems almost complete.
“A plan was agreed when our soldiers went to Afghanistan. Our partners in the government didn't want to stick to that plan, and on the basis of their refusal we have decided to resign from this government,” said the leader of the Labour party, Wouter Bos. “We cannot effectively lead a government that has become so fractured over these issues, where no resolution can be made, and where the lives of our troops and the stability of other nations are in peril. We are left with no other option but to resign the government.”
Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende, who tendered his resignation to Queen Beatrix, had been weighing a request by NATO to extend troop deployment in Afghanistan. A recent poll indicated that most Dutch citizens weren’t even aware that their country had a military force.
“it’s hardly surprising that many in the Netherlands are so indifferent to the collapse of their government. I mean, it is the Netherlands after all. Half the country is permanently baked so it’s entirely possible that they didn’t even realize the government existed in the first place,” said Scrape TV International analyst Gustav Hander. “The indifference from the rest of the world however is something else entirely. I mean the country isn’t strategically important and it’s likely to be mostly under water in the next couple of decades but it’s still a western nation in the centre of Europe so you would have thought someone would have cared, but obviously not.”
Because of the hobbies of so much of the country’s population it is believed unlikely that the nation will descend into violence.
“Countries collapse all the time, but often the great nations go out with a bang and then the various pieces just trail off. There has nothing like that here, it’s just been a slow slide into irrelevance which is really quite sad,” continued Hander. “However I think people will start to notice when the country inevitably starts to fall into decay with government workers not being paid and social structure starts to break down. That’s going to make good weed really hard to find and really expensive.”
Marijuana quality and prices are controlled by the country’s constitution, protection which is now in peril.
Emil Uliya, International Correspondent
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