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Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand
In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe.
Le Monde has a long article describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza.
Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction.
He describes it as being "economically banned across most of the planet," including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands.
That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are:
- punishing a European citizen
- for doing his job in Europe
- applying laws Europe officially supports
- at an institution based in Europe
- that Europe helped create and fund
and Europe is not only doing essentially nothing to protect him, they're actively enforcing America's sanctions against their own citizen - European banks closing his accounts, European companies refusing him service, European institutions standing by while Washington destroys a European judge's life on European soil.
Again, in a normal world, European leaders and citizens should be absolutely outraged about this. But we've so normalized the hollowing out of European sovereignty that the sight of a European citizen being economically executed on European soil for upholding European law is treated, at best, as an unfortunate technical complication in transatlantic
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It's about alienation and there's a great essay about doing theology with Marx's analysis of alienation but I'm struggling to figure out where to put it in
August 18, 2025 at 11:52 PM
It's about alienation and there's a great essay about doing theology with Marx's analysis of alienation but I'm struggling to figure out where to put it in
Very boring version of this but internecine factional conflicts (the more arbitrary the beef the better)
August 18, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Very boring version of this but internecine factional conflicts (the more arbitrary the beef the better)
Honestly either works
August 15, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Honestly either works
This is a great way to segue into complementing his cock
August 8, 2025 at 12:58 PM
This is a great way to segue into complementing his cock
That's a toughie! I live in Toronto now so I'm more heavily biased towards wanting available weekend service, but I feel like even when I lived in Waterloo I would have taken that over more weekday service
June 21, 2025 at 8:20 PM
That's a toughie! I live in Toronto now so I'm more heavily biased towards wanting available weekend service, but I feel like even when I lived in Waterloo I would have taken that over more weekday service
The bread is trans
May 29, 2025 at 12:58 AM
The bread is trans
This is about the movie specifically but feel free to apply it to whatever situation you see fit
April 22, 2025 at 10:38 PM
This is about the movie specifically but feel free to apply it to whatever situation you see fit
Seems as though this person's primary project is "ensure Elon Musk is maximally viewed as a boogeyman" rather than "correctly understand the world in order to effectively change it" which like go off I guess but leave the rest of us alone
March 17, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Seems as though this person's primary project is "ensure Elon Musk is maximally viewed as a boogeyman" rather than "correctly understand the world in order to effectively change it" which like go off I guess but leave the rest of us alone
Jay "Dragon" Dragon
February 11, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Jay "Dragon" Dragon