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[–] njm1314 89 points 1 week ago (6 children)
[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Didn't realize Portugal was Eastern European

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

Who knows what that's revenge for.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yea what the hell, why us?

[–] UnfortunateShort 4 points 1 week 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week 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 🇦🇹

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Also Mexico? The Phillipines? Greenland?

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Both them and China try very hard not to.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 week ago

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

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 week ago

Oh, it's the map they always use

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week 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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week 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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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week 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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

In a completely useless way because of the single market.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week 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.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week 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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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week 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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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week 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."

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What's up with Switzerland and Austria?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Politically unreliable

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Ah, the cracker index

[–] andrewth09 8 points 1 week ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

The more you buy, the more you save!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I'm not sure what tier 2 loses in terms of access.

This obviously continues the Chinese need to "delete America" and capitalize competition to Nvidia, where they are not horribly behind H100 if that is the tier 2 standard. Tier 2 is now automatically motivated to help China to help themselves. Nvidia buying Trump is an easy path to get their oligarchy prioritized over bad arguments against capturing smaller global market that reduces innovation.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

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

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