ah what a nuisance these war crimes courts
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Trump is delulu
The more and the harder the US wastes its sanction tools on the ICC and against European countries, the faster those will turn blunt and the faster the pillars those sanctions are resting on will collapse.
The EU should respond by dumping all American bonds and sanctioning Israel, but they won't, because the EU is a neoliberal plutocracy not far behind the US; cut from the same cloth of capital over people; surveilance over civil rights; the decay into fascism is almost guaranteed based on the distribution of wealth and dependence on American tech.
The EU should respond by making the euro its oil currency.
Saddam Hussein tried that and was killed because of it.

Adding to this, imperialism is a hell of a drug that depends on the other imperial powers remaining cooperative.
I mean you might be right, but don't they have to overcome an enormous bureaucratic inertia to get there?
Your not totally wrong on the threat to privacy and democracy in the EU and its member states. You are dead wrong however on much of the rest. The EU is working hard on all sorts of things that are crucial for strategic autonomy. Sovereign satellite communication, payment systems fully independent from the US, also down to the consumer with credit card alternatives in daily life. Laying the groundwork for transition to open source based software in all public systems at the very least. A lot of those things have meaningfully accelerated in recent years, or at least started for real.
Some of these things are already pretty progressed others just starting. This does take time and it is done best without shouting it out loud all the time.
Dumping all bonds to trigger a nuclear option, while not at least much of the above has been done to a sufficient extend, is not terribly clever.
Independence from the US does not mean independence from fascism however, and all the dubious chat control and id verification stuff that they've been pushing for does bring it more in kine with policing thought.
The EU is one of the most polycentric political entities, still capable of creating laws. That in itself is quite against fascist ways of doing things. It also means, that all of what you mentioned here has supporters but also faces strong oppositions by parts. The main pushers are in the national capitals, the Commission is complicit, the European Parliament is, as could be expected largely torn by party affiliation and the court of the European Union is pretty strongly opposed in general.
In the end it comes down to the voters. Contrary to the claims of some, we actually do have a choice to vote the fascists in power or keep them away from it.
He and his cabinet are going to die in prison in The Hague. He does not want that.
Oh god. Everyone should just hope that trump drowns in his own diarrhea, or someone shoots him. Anything would be great!
I love it, perfect example for my employer to start moving every.thing. away from the cloud / US stuff .
Most companies can do all of it with open source and european clouds.
Well, they already have a standing plan to invade us if any American gets dragged before the court. I suppose we can consider tariffs foreplay?
Proving that is a great idea to have one, even if it doesn't have any real jurisdiction.
If you find yourself sanctioning the Hague you would think maybe that would be a moment that induces some degree of inflection. I bet the Nazis would have loved to sanction the ICC
As an American, I apologize for the ludicrousy. I didnt vote for it but I feel semi-responsible for my idiot neighbors.
Way to go, pushing another country away from USA goods and services, providing strong reasons for building European alternatives
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