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[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 86 points 2 months ago (6 children)
[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 45 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Koen967@feddit.nl 30 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Didn't realize Portugal was Eastern European

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 38 points 2 months ago
[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 months ago

Who knows what that's revenge for.

[–] sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yea what the hell, why us?

[–] UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months 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 months ago (1 children)
[–] jagermo@feddit.org 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I mean, austria has no isssues working 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 months 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 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Also Mexico? The Phillipines? Greenland?

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[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 44 points 2 months ago

Oh, it's the map they always use

[–] K4mpfie@feddit.org 43 points 2 months ago

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

[–] agitated_judge@sh.itjust.works 42 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 months ago

Both them and China try very hard not to.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 39 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

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

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 35 points 2 months 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 months 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 months 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?

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[–] nom_nom@lemmy.ml 21 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] KnightOfOldEmpire@lemmy.ml 19 points 2 months 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.

[–] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] kurcatovium@lemm.ee 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 2 months ago

In a completely useless way because of the single market.

[–] Diva@lemmy.ml 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] merde@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 months ago

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

[–] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] kaprap@leminal.space 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Not_mikey@slrpnk.net 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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 months ago

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

[–] PanArab@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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 months ago (2 children)

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 months ago (1 children)

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 months ago

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

[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 months ago

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

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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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[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 months ago

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

[–] dogsoahC@lemm.ee 10 points 2 months 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."

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What's up with Switzerland and Austria?

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago

Politically unreliable

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 months ago

Ah, the cracker index

[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 months ago
[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 months ago

The more you buy, the more you save!

[–] andrewth09@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

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

[–] ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Are those chips actually made in US? Or just designed?

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