The Pandemic's Reach: A Dutch Party's Role

The story of the Dutch populist party Forum for Democracy (FvD) is not a straightforward political tale. It is a complex, multi-layered narrative that weaves together the worlds of high finance, a public health crisis that foreshadowed a pandemic, and a web of geopolitical conspiracy theories. It is a story of how a small, Dutch political party saw a global pandemic not as a crisis to be solved, but as an opportunity for strategic gain.