• cygnus@lemmy.ca
      495·
      7 个月前

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

      • UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world
        51·
        7 个月前

        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
          5·
          7 个月前

          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 🇦🇹

  • K4mpfie@feddit.org
    481·
    7 个月前

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

  • davel@lemmy.mlEnglish
    463·
    7 个月前

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

    • Dessalines@lemmy.mlOP
      401·
      7 个月前

      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
      19·
      7 个月前

      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
      13·
      7 个月前

      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·
      7 个月前

      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.

    • KnightOfOldEmpire@lemmy.ml
      22·
      7 个月前

      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.

      • kurcatovium@lemm.eeEnglish
        25·
        7 个月前

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

  • Diva (she/her)@lemmy.ml
    222·
    7 个月前

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

      • Not_mikey@slrpnk.net
        9·
        7 个月前

        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.mlEnglish
          4·
          7 个月前

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

  • NotSteve_@lemmy.ca
    161·
    7 个月前

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

  • Not_mikey@slrpnk.net
    15·
    7 个月前

    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.

  • dogsoahC@lemm.ee
    141·
    7 个月前

    “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.”

  • Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de
    141·
    7 个月前

    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.

    • nialv7@lemmy.world
      48·
      7 个月前

      Also Japan, South Korea and Taiwan in the blue tier… Don’t know what OP is on about.

      Edit: lol didn’t realize i was on .ml

      • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
        81·
        7 个月前

        The ROK is essentially a US colony, their military is subservient to the US’ military “in wartime.” Guess what? They have always been in “wartime.”

        Taiwan is similar, the US maintains a large military presence there and in Japan to try to keep China in check as a geopolitical adversary.

      • shawn1122@lemm.eeEnglish
        62·
        7 个月前

        East asian countries after WW2 (minus China) are essentially subsidaries of Western/US imperialism.