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Re: How a French judge was digitally cut off by the USA

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Post by tokai » Fri, Nov 21, 2025, 5:59 PM UTC

dmix wrote: post #194

PeterStuer wrote: post #161

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a European I can agree with the US and China stuff. But a Russian Invasion? Seriously?

As poor of a state that is Europe's various armies, I'd be very surprised if EU couldn't take on Russia even without the US (who FWIW recently reiterated their commitment to the defense of Europe). Russia's advanced SAMs, radars, and Navy have seriously deteriorated. Their main capability left is submarines and mass Shahed drones whose range can't reach much of Europe. If Russia's jets can't operate over Ukraine they…

Russia's advanced SAMs and radars are getting clapped by one of the poorest nations in Europe. We're at almost four years of full scale war and the worlds no. 2 military has not been able to get air superiority over a small airforce of cold war left overs. Just the airforces of the Nordic countries alone would run rings around the russian airforce and their air defence.

Re: How a French judge was digitally cut off by the USA

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Post by thenaturalist » Fri, Nov 21, 2025, 6:01 PM UTC

dariosalvi78 wrote: post #52

Same is happening to Francesca Albanese, UN rapporteur on Palestinian Territories, Italian citizen. The US is pure mafia.

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Re: How a French judge was digitally cut off by the USA

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Post by arresin » Fri, Nov 21, 2025, 6:01 PM UTC

Why is the president of the United States protecting a blood soaked war criminal? It’s weird. I mean what even does he get in return for this extraordinary service for someone so undeserving? I can’t even see how it’s valuable for him. Can someone explain it?

Re: How a French judge was digitally cut off by the USA

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Post by HappyPanacea » Fri, Nov 21, 2025, 6:01 PM UTC

mongol wrote: post #43

prasadjoglekar wrote: post #11

TLDR: he's a member of the ICC. Issues warrants against Israeli political leaders. Neither Israel nor the USA (nor China, Russia, India) are parties to the international conventions that formed the ICC. He's being sanctioned as a result by the USA, which flowed down to US companies who must follow US law.

Palestine is party to it and Gaza is part of Palestine

And yet Palestine didn't arrest Yahya Sinwar with accordance to ICC arrest warrant for “extermination, murder, taking of hostages, rape and sexual assault in detention”. De jure and De facto are very different things.

Re: How a French judge was digitally cut off by the USA

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Post by Lapsa » Fri, Nov 21, 2025, 6:02 PM UTC

immibis wrote: post #117

sfifs wrote: post #113

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I'm very surprised the US doesn't seem to be taking the risk of Ukraine becoming a Nuclear Weapons state seriously. By now, they surely would have had time to develop get to the brink of weaponization as a backup plan - they've after all always had a nuclear industry. If they do so and offer cover to their neighbors who realize NATO may not be sufficient, we are in for interesting times.

Ukraine WAS a nuclear weapons state, until the US agreed to protect them from Russia with the US's nuclear weapons, if they gave up their own.

afaik Ukraine never got paid for nuclear disarmament as initially agreed - about $200 billions

Re: How a French judge was digitally cut off by the USA

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Post by brabel » Fri, Nov 21, 2025, 6:04 PM UTC

wat10000 wrote: post #180

NoMoreNicksLeft wrote: post #162

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The ideal scenario would have been if Ukraine had secretly retained 30-100 warheads. Everyone likes to prattle on about how they couldn't even have used them: those people are mentally retarded. A sophisticated government with nuclear and aerospace scientists could have easily dismantled interlocks and installed their own. Maybe not in a hurry, but they had 3 decades more or less. And if they didn't have the expertis…

The war might end in Ukraine being flattened by Russian nuclear weapons if that happened. Putin would be backed into a corner. End the invasion after suffering a nuclear strike (or just the threat of one) and he'll risk being deposed and meet a gruesome end. Retaliate overwhelmingly and risk escalation from other nuclear powers. It's not clear to me that the second risk would be worse, and definitely not clear to me…

I agree with most of what you said but there’s zero possibility Russia will take over all of Ukraine. Even Putin never claimed they would, this seems like a fantasy some people like to propagate to instigate fear in Europe or something. They spent three years on a gruesome fight to take less than a fifth of the territory and the rest is much harder as the further West you go, the more nationalist Ukrainians are. Check the maps of political opinion on Russia before the war started. Looks pretty close to the current frontline where the divide between pro and against Russia lies. Attacking a NATO country would mean the end for Russia and both sides know it perfectly well even if they may say otherwise publicly to either scare people into supporting their militarism or to gain political points.

Re: How a French judge was digitally cut off by the USA

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Post by nwellnhof » Fri, Nov 21, 2025, 6:05 PM UTC

Tuna-Fish wrote: post #227

throw-the-towel wrote: post #127

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Those were Soviet nukes, physically located in Ukraine but not controlled by it, same as any French/US nukes stationed in Germany would not make it a nuclear state. The ones in Ukraine got moved into Russia, in exchange for Ukraine receiving money and security guarantees.

> Those were Soviet nukes, physically located in Ukraine but not controlled by it, same as any French/US nukes stationed in Germany would not make it a nuclear state. This is not an accurate comparison. It's not that Russia had nukes in Ukraine and withdrew them. Many of the Soviet soldiers manning them were Ukrainians and stayed behind. Much of the infrastructure for maintaining the Soviet arsenal was also in Ukrain…

> It's not that Russia had nukes in Ukraine and withdrew them.

Russia is the single legal successor of the USSR, so all Soviet nukes became Russian nukes, regardless where they were located. So after the USSR broke up, Russia did have nukes in Ukraine and withdrew them.

Re: How a French judge was digitally cut off by the USA

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Post by forty » Fri, Nov 21, 2025, 6:06 PM UTC

arresin wrote: post #263

Why is the president of the United States protecting a blood soaked war criminal? It’s weird. I mean what even does he get in return for this extraordinary service for someone so undeserving? I can’t even see how it’s valuable for him. Can someone explain it?

My understanding is that Christian extremists, who are voting for Trump, have some belief that some territories needs to be occupied by Jews so that something happens (I don't remember what, but I guess something good to them), so they are happy with the genocide and Trump is happy to collaborate with Israeli government to make his electors happy.

Re: How a French judge was digitally cut off by the USA

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Post by hn_acker » Fri, Nov 21, 2025, 6:07 PM UTC

vkou wrote: post #252

vincvinc wrote: post #241

"All his accounts with US companies such as Amazon, Airbnb, or PayPal were immediately closed by the providers. Online bookings, such as through Expedia, are immediately canceled, even if they concern hotels in France." How is this legal / OK?

A US company is free to cut off service to whatever foreigner it wants, just like a foreign country is free to ban whatever US firm it wants from operating in it.

The US government is not free to use frivolous sanctions to indirectly make payment processors stop serving a foreigner.

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Post by op00to » Fri, Nov 21, 2025, 6:08 PM UTC

forty wrote: post #268

arresin wrote: post #263

Why is the president of the United States protecting a blood soaked war criminal? It’s weird. I mean what even does he get in return for this extraordinary service for someone so undeserving? I can’t even see how it’s valuable for him. Can someone explain it?

My understanding is that Christian extremists, who are voting for Trump, have some belief that some territories needs to be occupied by Jews so that something happens (I don't remember what, but I guess something good to them), so they are happy with the genocide and Trump is happy to collaborate with Israeli government to make his electors happy.

They think that Jews must be in Israel to enable the return of Jesus and eventually the rapture. I'd love a rapture. Think of the improvement to traffic!