I certainly hope the EU can put the same sanctions on the US for attacking Venezuela as they did on Russia for attacking Ukraine. This is indefensible.
pigs will evolve to grow wings and fly before that ever happens, as always rules for thee not ourselves. More like it will be how to form an alliance - "in the name of to stop a dictator or war on drugs" - definitely not for own corporations to have a chance of getting even a tiny piece of the pie afterwards...
The EU's top diplomat said the bloc would only recognize "complete and independently verifiable" election results, which the Venezuelan government has not yet provided.
We won't, the US is our biggest commercial partner and ally. The best we can hope from EU is silence, but more probably it will be excuses on why we will actually support them.
then the EU would learn what it means to not only have everything in US "clouds", but also realize that even where we don't, people access everything through the OS of the american Microsoft, american Apple or american Google...
Having said that, the day the EU becomes strong enough to do this is the day they will have achieved real freedom and independence. The current EU leaders won't do this, because they are lapdogs for America. EU may vocally complain about US action, but they still ultimately serve US interests.
Argentina has reached an agreement to pay U.S. hedge funds that have sought for 14 years to profit off the countryβs debt. The hedge funds bought up Argentinaβs debt for bargain prices after its financial crisis, then demanded full repayment.
fuck, Iβm not usually someone who tries to avoid paying taxes (I believe itβs a required part of living in society), but man I really want to figure out how to not have to pay my US taxes this year (I live in France now) so that my money doesnβt keep going to funding shit like this.
Every European that wants to be less tied to US hegemony should do everything in their power to reduce their personal resource footprint and to vote at every opportunity for degrowth
The EU are America's vassals. USA controls the currency you trade in and control cyber. USA just sanctioned ICC judges for making an unfavorable ruling and functionally deleted them from modern life. EU needs independence from USA before they can take serious political action.
@Martin_de_Zavala Again, that is the name of the award. Awards typically don't have needs and wants as they are not sentient. You're referring to the laureate.
This is Trump playing big-boy dictator. He thinks this makes him look strong to his daddy, Putin, but he just looks pathetic and heβs only ultimately helping China. The freefall of America is in full swing now. Former allies will be trampling each other to form tighter relationships with China. Who knew making America great would be such a boon for China?? (everyone did)
You do realize that Russia is bombing Ukrainian cities for almost 4 years since large-scale war started and many years before, do you? Iβm not saying there shouldnβt be consequences for US for what they did. Iβm just saying that comparison is ridiculous and gives nothing but few more excuses for Russian propaganda to continue doing what theyβve been doing
Russia's invasion of Ukraine also started with a supposed "military operation". It is the same playbook. Do you want me to wait until more Venezuelans are dead before condemning the act of international aggression?
what in my response made you think so? Iβm just saying that comparison of two things is wrong
Nobody should die because of someoneβs political or economic benefit. All the inter-state interventions and military operations must stop and never happen again
I'm the last person to approve current actions of the US administration, but deeply disappointed with such a rage-bait take.
It is inhumane to compare suffering of millions of Ukrainians protecting their democratic country, with millions dead or injured, and tens of millions displaced, that endures everyday bombardment of critical infrastructure in the middle of the winter with targeted attack on military objects by US in Venezuela, a country that was already under EU sanction list
Artme is correct. You can't compare Ukrania with Venezuela. The former one was a functional country before the invasion, the latter one has been a dictatorship for the last 25 years. This current Trump proposal is far from the ideal solution (I'm not a Trump sympathizer), but it's better than the status quo. Sign, a Venezuelan.
This is an #invasion of another #sovereign country by #MAGAmerica which falls foul of #international #law. Unconscionable, no matter how bad the Venezuelan government is. #UN and #EU sanctions definitely called for. #tRump the international #criminal. π€¦ββοΈπ€¦ββοΈπ€¦ββοΈ
can Europe please take Trump and Putin to the Hague : Putin for genocide and Trump for any of the thousands of crimes he gets away with in the US including pedophilia, rape, fascism, corruption, war-crimes, treason, insurrection, voter-fraud, destroying democracy ...
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Let's see now, Zelensky won an election that everybody agrees about was honest, whereas Maduro is a dictator holding thousands of people without trial who came to power in elections nobody claims were honest. You can't lump both invasions together as the same thing. That is an insult to the Ukraine, and to Zelensky. I'm sure Putin loves to hear it.
@edgeofeurope This is a wild take. How does it matter who won which elections? It is an invasion of a sovereign country. Who elected the US to enforce foreign elections? Do you understand the US just wants to claim Venezuelan oil and is following Putin's playbook to a letter?
foreign interference is always about ensuring compliance not democracy, despite the PR. we're fine with friendly dictatorships and always claim that there was corruption in the electoral system of any democracy that opposes US interests.
but sanctions, like war, should be decided at the UN.
one can hope, but give the absolute dependency that the EU still has towards the US, that will not happen. We need to first: - bring back Digital sovereignty to EU (Linux and FOSS pretty much only option) - economic sovereignty (ECB are doing good work on this with digital EUR, etc - but they need more support) - energy sovereignty: we need to urgently transition to renewables - military sovereignty (unfortunatly still needed. Not sure how long it will take even with the significant increases in spending that we're seeing now)
How the mighty have fallen! Russia invades Ukraine, USA invades Venezuela⦠How long will it take China to invade Taiwan, now that the example has been set?
... This two Situation are not the same and not comparable in that simplicity. So let's simply not do it this way.
I'm not backing up Trump or his reigin by saying this, but simplifying situations like this will certainly only fuel the devide of the extremes in our societies.
The #EU is way too dependent on the #USA for this to happen. But letting this slide further erodes the Western moral standpoint against the invasion of #Ukraine and a future invasion of #Taiwan.
How many EU leaders condemned the attack on Venezuela so far?
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Actually I was wondering about the impact this intervention may have on the war in Ukraine, if it may weaken Russia.
"These ships are used primarily for trading oil, but not exclusively. EL PAΓS has detected the use of these cargo ships to smuggle stolen grain from occupied Ukraine or transport scrap metal from war zones." english.elpais.com/internationβ¦
The US-led battle against cargo ships off the coast of Venezuela, and Ukraineβs attacks on Russian vessels have brought to light an illegal industry of βshadowβ ships
Sanctions against Russia (a terrorist country) are very weak. And Russia's circumvention of sanctions is ignored. If you want the same for the United States, that's strange
I don't want to be cut off from the rest of the world, personally, the way Russian creators have been. But also don't want any more money going through the US to Putin's invasions or (to the destruction of Gaza). Sanctions seem appropriate.
As an American, I regretfully agree with this. The actions of the US government with regards to Venezuela are illegal and extreme. Every member of the US government that participated needs to be sanctioned, and the US itself should be properly punished by the rest of the world for this... travesty.
The Epstein Files war on Venezuela - started by the orange stain - cannot be allowed to go unanswered.
i get the feeling but they are clapping for Israel televising a genocide; you think they're gonna give a single solitary fuck for south America? Nah, Europe will be celebrating the continuation of their work
The scale is a bit different. Genocide, torture, and large scale killing is absent.
But no wonder you, with ruzzian origin, would support dividing EU and USA π€£ Are you hurt because moscovia cannot do much β except divide & conquer Europe with active measuresπ
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •EU did not recognize 2024 elections and Maduro's "win":
dw.com/en/eu-extremely-concernβ¦
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EU 'extremely concerned' over Venezuela election
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •These are the American oligarchs who want to loot the natural resources of nations.
Ukraine
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Nigeria, Venezuela, Greenland, Canada are targets.
Sanction these oligarchs first.
1. Elon Musk $291,482,587
2. Timothy Mellon $197,047,200
3. Miriam Adelson $148,304,900
4. Richard Uihlein $143,498,936
5. Ken Griffin $108,402,284
6. Jeff Yass $101,128,680
7. Paul E. Singer $66,800,800
8. Marc Andreessen $42,365,113
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Trumpβs Ukraine βMinerals Dealβ Is About Fossil Fuels
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Sanctions do not achieve desired results.
Having said that, the day the EU becomes strong enough to do this is the day they will have achieved real freedom and independence. The current EU leaders won't do this, because they are lapdogs for America. EU may vocally complain about US action, but they still ultimately serve US interests.
The Digital Coolie π π΅πΈ
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Americans now: "Are we the baddies?"
Always have been... π«
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Sanctions were placed on Russian oligarchs in the wake of the war in Ukraine.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20β¦
Place sanctions on American oligarchs.
Paul Singer won the Citgo lawsuit. It's not the 1st time this vulture capitalist seized ships & bankrupted a nation.
democracynow.org/2016/3/11/theβ¦
He's Trump's 7th largest donor. Elliott Management is the 9th largest corporate donor to the GOP.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20β¦
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The Vulture: How Billionaire Rubio Backer Paul Singer Made Billions off Argentina Debt Crisis
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Jonathan Schofield
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Europe consumes ~5x more oil than it produces.
We have voted for the growth that has led us here: mastodon.social/@urlyman/11571β¦ So politicians will follow that course.
Every European that wants to be less tied to US hegemony should do everything in their power to reduce their personal resource footprint and to vote at every opportunity for degrowth
Jonathan Schofield (@urlyman@mastodon.social)
Jonathan Schofield (Mastodon)doubledealer
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The winner of the 2025 nobel peace price supported the US strikes on Venezuela.
mamot.fr/@joosteto/11583073578β¦
joosteto
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joosteto
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Had to look it up, but indeed, MarΓa Corina Machado, the 2025 Nobel Peace Price winner, did suport US strikes on Venezuela.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%Aβ¦
Venezuelan politician and activist (born 1967)
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Neo-imperialismβ¦ and unacceptable.
Wagging the dog.
Alex Gordienko
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in reply to Alex Gordienko • • •Alex Gordienko
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •not your words per se, the fact that things are compared and looked at as they are they same
I hope I didnβt offend you. My point is that these things are not equal. However, they both are horrible and require prosecution
Fuck Putin. Fuck Trump. Fuck dictatorship and falsification. Fuck war
Eugen Rochko
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •what in my response made you think so? Iβm just saying that comparison of two things is wrong
Nobody should die because of someoneβs political or economic benefit. All the inter-state interventions and military operations must stop and never happen again
People lives matter the most
ppw
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •I'm the last person to approve current actions of the US administration, but deeply disappointed with such a rage-bait take.
It is inhumane to compare suffering of millions of Ukrainians protecting their democratic country, with millions dead or injured, and tens of millions displaced, that endures everyday bombardment of critical infrastructure in the middle of the winter with targeted attack on military objects by US in Venezuela, a country that was already under EU sanction list
Eugen Rochko
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •won't happen when this is what the High Representative posted
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •First Russia, then Israel, and now U.S.A.
for sure π
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •#tRump the international #criminal. π€¦ββοΈπ€¦ββοΈπ€¦ββοΈ
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •of course you'd ask yourself that question how could you possibly know, being an obviously long-term victim of russian propaganda.
The actual question should be: Why the fuck haven't the US decapitated fucking Russia from Putin?
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •This aggression will expose the hypocrisy of all EU nations, they all are colony of USA. They cant oppose USA as they oppose Russia.
Fking monsters
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •You can't lump both invasions together as the same thing. That is an insult to the Ukraine, and to Zelensky. I'm sure Putin loves to hear it.
Eugen Rochko
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •foreign interference is always about ensuring compliance not democracy, despite the PR. we're fine with friendly dictatorships and always claim that there was corruption in the electoral system of any democracy that opposes US interests.
but sanctions, like war, should be decided at the UN.
Felix Denbratt
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •- bring back Digital sovereignty to EU (Linux and FOSS pretty much only option)
- economic sovereignty (ECB are doing good work on this with digital EUR, etc - but they need more support)
- energy sovereignty: we need to urgently transition to renewables
- military sovereignty (unfortunatly still needed. Not sure how long it will take even with the significant increases in spending that we're seeing now)
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •They won't. Even when the US takes Greenland, EU will stay subservient.
It's sickening.
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •... This two Situation are not the same and not comparable in that simplicity. So let's simply not do it this way.
I'm not backing up Trump or his reigin by saying this, but simplifying situations like this will certainly only fuel the devide of the extremes in our societies.
vepΕ jako pepΕ
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Asterix
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •The #EU is way too dependent on the #USA for this to happen. But letting this slide further erodes the Western moral standpoint against the invasion of #Ukraine and a future invasion of #Taiwan.
How many EU leaders condemned the attack on Venezuela so far?
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Actually I was wondering about the impact this intervention may have on the war in Ukraine, if it may weaken Russia.
"These ships are used primarily for trading oil, but not exclusively. EL PAΓS has detected the use of these cargo ships to smuggle stolen grain from occupied Ukraine or transport scrap metal from war zones."
english.elpais.com/internationβ¦
The open war against the oil βphantom fleetβ
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Why wait for a response βfrom aboveβ?
We have it in our own hands to #boycott!
With: #unplugtrump and #unplugbigtech.
With:
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With:
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With:
european-alternatives.eu/
With:
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The change of era does not only refer to the fail of major power nations.
It also means that every single person helps to shape it.
Bottom up instead of top down! π
Buy European
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I don't want to be cut off from the rest of the world, personally, the way Russian creators have been. But also don't want any more money going through the US to Putin's invasions or (to the destruction of Gaza). Sanctions seem appropriate.
Ken M Sweeney
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •I think they should use the exact same sanctions as the ones they put on the Israeli military regime....
Ohh wait...
Court Cantrell does not comply
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •As an American, I regretfully agree with this. The actions of the US government with regards to Venezuela are illegal and extreme. Every member of the US government that participated needs to be sanctioned, and the US itself should be properly punished by the rest of the world for this... travesty.
The Epstein Files war on Venezuela - started by the orange stain - cannot be allowed to go unanswered.
Sarma / Amras
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Nope. Too dependent.
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •The scale is a bit different. Genocide, torture, and large scale killing is absent.
But no wonder you, with ruzzian origin, would support dividing EU and USA π€£ Are you hurt because moscovia cannot do much β except divide & conquer Europe with active measuresπ
moscovia must be denazified
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