Clear reason for Europe to become independent of the USA
8d 14h ago by sh.itjust.works/u/notsosure in buyeuropean@feddit.uk from www.irishtimes.com
cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/post/747117
‘It’s surreal’: US sanctions lock International Criminal Court judge out of daily life
cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/24014988
This summer Kimberly Prost, a Canadian judge at the International Criminal Court (ICC), arrived at her home in The Hague and, as was her habit, called out “Alexa”.
There was silence. The voice-activated assistant did not respond. “Alexa was dead. She wouldn’t talk to me,” Prost recalled in an interview with The Irish Times.
Prost had been added to the United States’ sanctions list, because in 2020 she ruled to authorise an investigation into possible atrocities in Afghanistan, including by US troops. Amazon, obliged to implement the sanctions as a US company, had cancelled her account.
It was just the start of what Prost describes as a “pervasive, negative effect” of the sanctions across all aspects of her life, which has shut her out from much of the international banking system.
This is economic terrorism
America is a terrorist state, so that tracks
Thats why they didn't sign the ICC, cause they are the most powerful country so they have the ability to not sign it, so they can keep the wild west theme and keep economically terrorizing the rest without any accountability
Outrageous. Good for the judge for going public, everyone has to know what happens when you're cutoff US services and how untrustworthy they are.
Interfering in the judicial system makes U.S. no different than the wild-west they run in Russia with oligarchs.
Another proof that EU must immediately come with its own payment system and cut these meaningless ties with US corporations.
"Do as we demand or we'll bully and terrorise you."
Yep, seems about right for the american government.
Hey babe, wake up!
Another reason dropped today!
Any statement is irrelevant the next day 😜 The US madmen presidency is like a wild bronco.