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Time to protect EU citizens from US human rights abuses. Require EU banks to ignore foreign sanctions and call the US bluff.
by crest 9mo ago
Time to protect EU citizens from US human rights abuses. Require EU banks to ignore foreign sanctions and call the US bluff.
- jeltz 9mo agoYeah, the EU should just call the bluff. The US is not going to do anything other than shake their fist angrily.
- GordonS 9mo agoThe problem there is that the EU has started copying the USA, and has just recently sanctioned multiple journalists for telling stories that don't align with their narrative on Russia/Ukraine.
- watwut 9mo agoRussia invaded Ukraine in its quest to enlarge the imperium. Russia is an aggressor seeking to expand even more.
- GordonS 9mo agoRegardless, should we really sanction our own citizens simply for reporting, in good faith, something that goes against the state-sponsored narrative (true or otherwise)? This is legit the kind of stuff we used to use as examples as why "Russia is bad".
- watwut 9mo agoThere is no equivalency bettween what Russia actually does here these days ... or between what was going on in Russia as Putin cemented his power, ressurected Stalins mythology about Stalin as a great leader and how communist Russia operated. These false equivalencies amd attempts to hint that Ukraine war is anything else then a territorial expansion are not just "regardless". They are the core issue.
- GordonS 9mo agoYou've side-stepped my question entirely - should we really be sanctioning journalists? Is that really a sign of healthy democracy and free speech?
- watwut 9mo agoFor me, the really i.portsnt point is to not imply whatever conspira y theory about Ukraine deserving it could be implied. And likewise, the importsnt part for me was to negate the false equivalency. I am ok with sanctioning Russia as such, as much as possible. Sadly they have powerful allies in US now ... but for now, Russia and US are the greatest threats to freedom in Europe.
- GordonS 9mo agoWe're not discussing conspiracy theories, or sanctioning of Russia for that matter - this is about EU journalists being sanctioned for reporting in good faith.
- shard972 9mo ago[dead]
- emilfihlman 9mo agoTime to protect citizens from EU human right and political abuses, too.