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Stage Four Clown World: "EU agrees new sanctions on Iran over human rights abuses." (lemmy.nz)

submitted 5 months ago by powerstruggle@sh.itjust.works to c/stupidpol@sh.itjust.works

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So Europe is just like, over, right guys? Like, this whole thing that has been their 'reaction' to such a blatantly criminal war, this is it yeah? They don't return from this, from the last several years frankly, as anything other than the most depressing joke--and one that doesn't even realize its got clown makeup on.

It's incredible to me just reflecting on it, reflecting on how Europe seemed so much more put together to my dumbass American eyes growing up, how they seemed to be an example for better Western leadership, ha ha.

The illusions they've wrapped themselves in, the air of superiority, so on, it's all come down and shown itself for the façade it is just like the West itself can now be seen plainly for the genocidal farce it is. Like Yanis has been saying for years, Europe is finished.

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[–] passenger@sopuli.xyz 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

Someone forgot the protesters Iran shot and decades of abuse.

Iran regime can be bad and Trumps war cam be bad simultaneously

[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Why there us no sanctions on israel who do the same to palestinians?

[–] passenger@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It is a legitimate question. Why are you asking me though?

[–] mrdown@lemmy.world -1 points 5 months ago

because you claim that the sanctions are really about human right abuses when we all know it is because Iran refuse to become another puppet state to the west imperialist interests

[–] NecroParagon@midwest.social 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Because the US and Israel are buddies. Doesn't mean Iran shouldn't be sanctioned by Europe.

[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Europe is complicit in the genocide in Gaza. When are they going to sanctions themsrlees, israel and the united snakes?

Thosr sanctions hurt the regular iranians not the regime

[–] Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

Yeah but US just killed the Iranian leadership so at this point sanctions are just hurting the innocent. The leaders are all hiding in bunkers.

[–] Keeponstalin@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

A new study published in the British medical journal The Lancet Global Health finds that unilateral economic sanctions lead to about 564,000 excess deaths around the world each year.

https://cepr.net/newsroom/new-study-estimates-over-half-a-million-people-die-each-year-due-to-unilateral-economic-sanctions/

The point of sanctions on enemies is to harm the general population

[–] Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

Yeah the EU is just 20 years behind the US descent to fascism. Thiel and Murdoch just started in the US first, now they're also all in in bringing EU politicians..

[–] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

Holy fuck we suck. :(

[–] ulterno@programming.dev -1 points 5 months ago

Because seeing that in fiction somehow didn't make me fed up enough, now it has to happen IRL, by whole nations, nonetheless.

[–] CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works -2 points 5 months ago

This after the EU has had to deal with Trump sanctioning individual judges and staffers