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[-] njm1314@lemmy.world 86 points 2 years ago
[-] cygnus@lemmy.ca 44 points 2 years ago

It makes sense for all of Eastern Europe to be the same level.

[-] Koen967@feddit.nl 30 points 2 years ago

Didn't realize Portugal was Eastern European

[-] cygnus@lemmy.ca 38 points 2 years ago
[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 years ago

Who knows what that's revenge for.

[-] sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 8 points 2 years ago

Yea what the hell, why us?

[-] UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

How often did you elect a socialist government you sickos?! I am disgusted.

Where do I sign up btw? Just so, you know, I can avoid becoming Portuguese.

[-] Oneser@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago
[-] jagermo@feddit.org 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I mean, austria has no issues skirting sanctions and the incoming right wing government around the FPÖ and Kickl is very Putin friendly.

I can see why Biden might be careful. But that may change with the new government.

[-] Oneser@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

No, it's worse than that. Putin attended a wedding (in 2018, 5 months post Crimea annexation) of the then foreign minister [link].

They dissolved their government in 2019 after the then leader of the FPÖ told a journalist pretending to be a relative of an oligarch, that she could ensure positive coverage in exchange for government contracts. This might not be a direct link to a foreign enemy, but the corruption runs deep. [Link]

A senior quasi-secret service officer was discovered by the British to have been a spy for at least 7 years before he was apprehended. He was (cheaply) selling state secrets and providing information to the Russians... [link.]

You've got to love them 🇦🇹

[-] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Also Mexico? The Phillipines? Greenland?

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[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 46 points 2 years ago

Oh, it's the map they always use

[-] K4mpfie@feddit.org 44 points 2 years ago

Denmark is blue but Greenland isn't. The comedy basically writes itself

[-] agitated_judge@sh.itjust.works 42 points 2 years ago

Either that map is wrong, or the US doesn't understand how the EU works.

[-] HK65@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 years ago

Both them and China try very hard not to.

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 39 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Excluding some EU countries is a great move toward accelerating the Union’s fracturing.

[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 35 points 2 years ago

I guess letting a handful of white-collar racist IP lawyers draft your foreign policy isn't such a good idea after all.

[-] unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.ml 18 points 2 years ago

Meh. CTU means stuff comes into e.g. Rotterdam and then easily wherever it needs to go from there, and complaining about "evading sanctions" seems to me like an exercise in futility.

[-] Muffi@programming.dev 12 points 2 years ago

I'm not sure I get that part. Movement of goods within the EU is tax free, so why wouldn't another country just import it, and move it to, say, Portugal?

[-] NeuronautML@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I really doubt any sort of US action could lead to the EU fracturing.

If anything, having to deal with the US has brought us closer together. On one side there's Trump making a fool of himself and of the US. On the other side there's Musk, thinking he can take on European unions and actually win, because he thinks he's still in the US, and in the middle there's what i like to call the sheep pen of tech companies. We shear their wool for fines on privacy violations every couple of months to fund our regulatory organs.

[-] nom_nom@lemmy.ml 21 points 2 years ago
[-] KnightOfOldEmpire@lemmy.ml 19 points 2 years ago

Geopolitics. Whoever isn't on board with USA (or is suspected not to be) is getting sanctions. Austria and Swiss are neutral (on paper), that's not really going to fly with "you're with us or you're against us" attitude of the US.

My guess is they are not a member of the EU. I don't understand Portugal tho.

[-] kurcatovium@lemm.ee 25 points 2 years ago

Oh c'mon! It's not just Portugal, there's half of the EU missing...

[-] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 2 years ago

In a completely useless way because of the single market.

[-] Diva@lemmy.ml 20 points 2 years ago

Biden didn't want to provoke the Turks and so Greece is also a tier 2 country

[-] merde@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 years ago

whole east Europe is tier 2. What an influence Turkey has!

[-] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 16 points 2 years ago
[-] kaprap@leminal.space 5 points 2 years ago
[-] Not_mikey@slrpnk.net 9 points 2 years ago

That's French guiana which is part of France. Not even some weird colonial situation like Puerto Rico, it's a full department (province) with all the rights of mainland French departments.

[-] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

With that in mind, the country that France shares the most border with is Brazil.

[-] PanArab@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The world seriously needs an alternative to US technology.

Also what does Biden have against Iceland and Greenland?

[-] Not_mikey@slrpnk.net 14 points 2 years ago

Biggest shock on here is Israel isn't blue. I guess this as much of a fuck you for ruining my presidency Biden could muster on his way out.

[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 19 points 2 years ago

He's giving them $8bn in arms to kill Palestinians, so I don't think that's the case there. Obama did the same on his way out.

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[-] reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

They will just steal any tech they want anyway, like the nuke.

[-] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 years ago

I guess the US feels threatened by Greenland's prospering chip industry

[-] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 2 years ago

Regarding your Peter Griffin meme: Us Swiss and our Austrian neighbors are pretty white on average, but even beyond that, the Czech, the Polish, Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians are very white on average.

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[-] dogsoahC@lemm.ee 10 points 2 years ago

"The worldwide interest in accelerated computing for everyday applications is a tremendous opportunity for ~~the US to cultivate, promoting the economy and adding US jobs~~ imperialism."

[-] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 years ago

Occupied Palestine is tier 2? Doesnt he love their genocide?

[-] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago

Ah, the cracker index

[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago
[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 years ago

What's up with Switzerland and Austria?

[-] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

Politically unreliable

[-] andrewth09@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Wake up babe, new first/second/third world definitions just dropped.

[-] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago

The more you buy, the more you save!

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