Mastodawn

Internationally, the US is sanctioning individuals they disagree with. This includes judges in The Hague, and here the UN special rapporteur to Gaza, who can no longer access her own bank account, because the Trump regime is abusing their power ower international monetary systems to keep her in The Dark Ages.

No indictments. No trials. All these people are just shut out, because Trump feels like it.

https://youtube.com/shorts/E0JCNSTUN8c?si=Ouen1QRvhQsm3lwm

'It's brutal': life under U.S. sanctions

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juristi Feb 26

@randahl

What bothers me even more is that @EUCommission seems to be doing absolutely nothing to help its own citizens targeted by the sanctions. No pressure to the banks or companies to end the blockade. No anything.

Just a few offhanded remarks about the issue, which in practice means accepting the measures and aligning themselves with Trump against EU citizens.

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yazomie (she/her)Feb 28

@juristi @randahl @EUCommission They're trying with the Digital Euro initiative or how it's called, but that effort might come to public fruition too late. EU are gambling that the US won't try sanction all of us before the EU is ready to be fairly sovereign digitally, because there are certain high interests to buy time and at once try profiting from the state of things...

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juristi

@Zzyzx @EUCommission @randahl

Digital Euro is a significant step. Hopefully it will become reality and people really start to use it. There is also Wero/EuroPA collaboration, but with the current (at least on Vipps) 4% fee + requirement to still have debit/credit card to send money abroad it is hard to see it become very relevant.

The gamble for more sovereignty is pretty much the only option to take at the moment. I can understand the buying of time, but at the same time EU should do at least something else than give empty words in this kind of cases of blatant disregard of union laws. Trump, like Putin, respects power. Instead, Ursula VdL and other european leaders behave like US vassals and make EU weaker than it really is.