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Nicolas Guillou, French ICC judge sanctioned by the US: 'You are effectively blacklisted by much of the world's banking system'
Being sanctioned by USA nowadays means getting banned from 90% of commercial internet. This is a clear example that being careful is not paranoia but valid precaution.

https://archive.ph/d8NmT#selection-1899.0-1899.127

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Hexadecimalkink
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Hexadecimalkink
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Europe hasn't been sovereign since the end of WW2 🤷‍♂️
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eldavi
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eldavi
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he called on European authorities to activate a mechanism that could limit the impact of US restrictions.

Europe needs greater sovereignty, especially in digital and banking matters. That is the only way to reduce the impact of sanctions and, indirectly, protect the victims of international crimes. Today, there is no room for naivety. Without sovereignty – military, health, financial and digital – we can no longer guarantee the rule of law. Some European lawmakers have become aware of these issues. Still, this awareness must grow among national governments and the European Commission, because behind the sanctions against the ICC lies the entire question of the rule of law.


it feels like he doesn't know that the europeans are vassal states to the us empire and that even the most powerful members of the icc aligned countries are following the empire's orders instead of the icc/icj's orders.

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FauxLiving
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Until Trump let Elon erase decades of soft power gains with his trashy chainsaw and then imposed unilateral tariffs on our trading partners and threatening to invade allies.

Every EU country has taken initiative to move away from the US, ignoring banking sanctions and fining American tech companies for violation of EU laws are not unlikely.

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eldavi
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he definitely did some damage to american soft power, but i suspect his goal was to concentrate it from several agencies into a single one.

that plus very clear indicators like von der leyen's capitulation to trumps trade demands; macron's & starmer's refusal to comply w the arrests warrant for netanyahu; germany and the uk criminalizing support for the palestinians; and the spanish, greek & irish government's public theater supporting the global sumud flotilla only to betray it at the last second suggests that europe is still doing what the united states wants it to do.

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utopiah
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It's a small thing but between that and recent CloudFlare/AWS/Azure outages self-hosting feels a lot more like a necessity than something nice to have.
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