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How a French judge was digitally cut off by the USA

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

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Post by grafmax »

petcat wrote: post #24
nmridul wrote: post #6

> ..... he calls on the EU to activate an existing blocking regulation (Regulation (EC) No 2271/96) for the International Criminal Court, which prevents third countries like the USA from enforcing sanctions in the EU. EU companies would then no longer be allowed to comply with US sanctions if they violate EU interests. Companies that violate this would then be liable for damages. That is from that article..

EU is in a very tough spot right now. They're getting squeezed on all sides economically by USA and China while simultaneously facing a Russian invasion on their eastern borders. The relationship with the American administration has deteriorated badly and any action seen as "retaliation", such as this policy blockade, would almost definitely result in USA withdrawing even more support for Ukraine in the war. I think,…

From the Russia POV invading Ukraine was a response to NATO expanding there. An imminent invasion of Europe seems outside of Russia’s geopolitical goals.

But Europe’s leaders on the other hand do seem invested in escalating this conflict, a lack of finances notwithstanding.

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

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Post by peterfirefly »

mrguyorama wrote: post #335
mothballed wrote: post #216

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you unaware that the exact same justification was used to attack the Ukrainian people? Your position here is weev is an actual neo-nazi while the Ukrainian people are not. I concede you are likely correct, and it is frankly obvious I'm not making the case they are compared as both being neo-nazis. It is still relevant because the failure mode is still paralleled, an accusation of neo-nazi and then serious state a…

The difference is, when Russia and dumb US citizens say "Ukraine is a Nazis state" 1) they are outright lying and 2) Russians do not think of "Nazis" as meaning the same as what the rest of the world understands. Russians do not hate the Nazis for being genociding freaks, they hate them for being backstabbers. Weev meanwhile is just a fucking Nazi. This exact thread is about a person who is not a Nazi facing persecut…

SPLC seems to be the main source for that Wikipedia section. I don't trust them at all. They are known liars.

Secondly, where are his (justified!) rantings about the unfairness of the Treaty of Versailles?

Being nasty (or even evil) is not the same as being a Nazi. Being virulently anti-Jewish is not the same as being a Nazi. Belonging either in a mental institution (without internet access) or belonging in a prison (still without internet access) is not the same as being a Nazi.

There are so many different kinds of evil in this world. Don't pretend they are all Nazis.

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

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Post by SiempreViernes »

Lapsa wrote: post #265
immibis wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

They got paid mainly in nuclear fuel, there was some disagreement at the rate by which they got fuel in exchange for the weapons and maybe they didn't get quite all the fuel they should have, but for sure they did get paid at least partially.

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

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Post by immibis »

KK7NIL wrote: post #457
immibis wrote: post #447

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Being behind doesn't mean they're permanently stuck where they are today - but aren't our processes running into the wall of soon trying to make transistors smaller than an atom?

> Being behind doesn't mean they're permanently stuck where they are today Without EUV, they very much are. > but aren't our processes running into the wall of soon trying to make transistors smaller than an atom? No, the finest pitches are still in the low double digit nanometers in 2 nm processes. The "2 nm" nomenclature hasn't denoted a physical dimension for decades.

Not having something today doesn't mean they'll never have it.

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

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Post by TitaRusell »

The US is becoming an oligarchy run by people who style themselves a modern day Caligula.

Which is all fine and dandy- not my country. But there is a golden rule that had been established between Europe and America.

Do not interfere with internal affairs.

The US is now openly engaged in destroying liberal democracy.

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

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Post by xmcqdpt2 »

hn_acker wrote: post #283
MichaelZuo wrote: post #256

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pretty much all companies only offer accounts without any guarantees, that can be realistically closed on a whim without any mandatory notice period. The only exceptions are the high end enterprise accounts.

Companies can voluntarily close accounts for almost any reason or no reason. The US government needs a legal justification for forcing companies to close an account.

The legal justification literally is “we put this person on the sanction list because national security.” The sanction process is basically its own legal justification.

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

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Post by SSLy »

brabel wrote: post #254
RyJones wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been to Kyiv five times to deliver aid via help99.co, and I've spent many, many hours with Europeans driving trucks from Tallinn to Kyiv. The people volunteering and driving know Europe is at war. They all say nobody else where they live realizes this. It's frustrating.

We are not at war. No bombs are falling in our cities. Our children are not being drafted and coming back in coffins. No one is bombing our ships and railways, so we have plenty of food on the table. If you think we are at war you have no idea what you’re talking about.

> No one is bombing our ships and railways

Uh, nuh https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/polish-pm-says-two-resp...

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

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Post by xmcqdpt2 »

gusfoo wrote: post #307

> For example, accounts with non-US banks have also been partially closed. Transactions in US dollars or via dollar conversions are forbidden to him. So people don't think this is a new thing; when I worked in retail banking in the (very) early '90s it was made clear to us that any transaction in US dollars is subject to US regulation. The hypothetical scenario was that an Ethiopian arms dealer buys Russian product f…

I worked on anti money laundering for a Canadian bank in Canada. Our scenarios in 2020 were much stricter than stopping illegal arms trading. We were on the lookout for Iranian-Canadian dual citizens sending Canadian dollar remittances to their Iranian families, which would have invalidated the bank’s status as a money service business in the US (which all Canadian banks require due to our integrated economy!) That is, any transaction in any financial institution in any currency (including eg life insurance, mortgages, paypal, etc) is covered by American sanctions regulations if that financial institution does any business in US dollars.

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

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Post by xmcqdpt2 »

nullbyte808 wrote: post #465

Insane. Luckily he can use a family member to regain some use of these services or by using a trust company, but still.

That’s sanctions evasion and those companies will be very wary in providing services to any close family of a sanctioned person. My guess is that these people’s SOs, children and their SOs are similarly banned, and that siblings, parents and “close associates” have to provide way more documentation when opening bank accounts than you and I.

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

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Post by xmcqdpt2 »

foogazi wrote: post #177
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.

> He's being sanctioned as a result by the USA As a result of what ? What’s the trigger cause of the US sanctions ? ICC can’t issue warrants against non ICC countries?

As a result of Executive Order 14203, titled “Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_14203

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