Sanctions were once sold as a gentler foreign policy tool for exerting pressure on dictatorships and terrorist organizations. Yet measures like banning individuals from having bank accounts or traveling are increasingly used to chill free speech in Europe.

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    In August 2025, Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the International Criminal Court, found himself locked out of the financial system and most online services. Why? Because the United States had placed him on a sanctions list that also includes al-Qaeda members, drug smugglers, and Vladimir Putin, simply because the court issued an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Five other ICC judges and three prosecutors have also ended up on the sanctions list.

    So … the opposite of the title? Europe placed an arrest warrant against Netanyahu and it was the US who placed these sanctions …

    Jacques Baud, a former employee of the Swiss intelligence service, military analyst, and regular commentator on the international Russian news channel RT, ended up on a sanctions list due to alleged support for Putin, by which EU authorities mean his pro-Russian analyses of Western policy in the run-up to the war in Ukraine.

    Ah, there it is.

    Gonna have to take the objectivity of the article into question, although it does employ a lot of truths to try to reach the conclusion it wants to reach.

  • EtAl@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    I know Russia has infiltrated EU political circles, and both Russia and Israel have infiltrated the US. How much sway does Israel have in the EU? Is it just lobbying, hacking, or possibly extortion (like in the States)?

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    3 days ago

    When you can’t make any friends because you’re fucking obnoxious, so then you take away everybody’s money because they didn’t want to be your friend. They must be anti-semites. You’ll have to punish them for not likening you by taking away their money.

    “If you won’t be my friend, then I’ll rape your kids and take your money.”

    It’s obvious now that stealing money and torturing children are the only values that Israel defends.