Lol, you had me worrying that I had mixed up the names.

sarcasm or real?

Donald Tusk

EU measures the US with the same tool as they measure China.

Different threats, different methods. Tesla doesn’t get fat Chinese state subsidies afaik. Technically China should abide the WTO rules, but they have been flooding the EU markets with their overcapacity. It’s unfair competition as you should know. What’s your point?

Site is being reported as cancer on mobile

Used to be Polish (far-right) state TV propaganda. But some years ago, Polish PM Donald Tusk cleansed all state media and it should be ok now.

What about that country that explicitly threatens the EU ?

Maybe its exactly because US admin is explicit about it, it isn’t considered a hybrid threat.

This is what I hate about the EU, they are idiots

Why would you even believe that? Not seen the EU polls or the news lately? The EU have been decoupling rapidly, and most people here don’t condider US trustworhy.

I say Europe because I think the UK should be included.

I sort of get what you’re getring at, after reading some comments you made after your first one. But don’t lump Europen countries on the same list as those others like Iran, Ruzzia & China. China Iran and Ruzzia are allies . They are not friends of Europe.

The USA has created an unsolvable mess which started as a" problem". The damage will already effect the world for 5- 10 years to come,. European countries and the EU didn’t want anyhting to do with Trump’s plan, and they have been continuously negotiating with both sides. But we have a demented mad dog on one side, and a more radicalized Iran currently without any real central gouvernement -as the prior one was decimated- on the other. Its just an extreme shitshow. I’m not sure lack of ideas is exactly the problem. But Trump and his cronies being in charge sure is the biggest one.

Europe, Russia, and China must get involved in the negotiations even without the US. These countries could present different ideas and Iran trusts them more.

I don’t know your angle, but Iran, China and Russia pretty much share quite a lot in their ideas. They dislike democracies. But they love Shahed drones, which they aggressively export to Ukraine, Romania, Poland, Denmark, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar etc.

Also, Europe is a continent, not a country. We are not the same.

Ok I’ve upvoted it. Seems this site does check out .It’s CEO is Maziar Bahari, Acclaimed Journalist, Canadian Iranian and UK resident.

And probably for the Farms as well.

I’m happy to see that the mass protest lead to him announcing his position. I sincerely hope that what comes next is better and can steer the complex issues in Serbia to a better future.

with more respect than most ordinary criminals in the US.

Indeed, It would be his best retirement option, considering his horrible actions.

Or in The Hague were world’s worse criminals are held.

CONTEXT( should have started with this maybe).

• From the OP article. " The Trump administration imposed sanctions on several judges at the International Criminal Court last year in an unprecedented retaliation over the war tribunal’s issuance of an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a past decision to ​open a case into alleged war crimes by U.S. troops in Afghanistan."

• Also this 8 month old article by The Guardian explains how these judges were being sanciones and basically treated as terrorists. Its titled " Credit cards cancelled, Google accounts closed: ICC judges on life under Trump sanctions"

" For years, she has sat as a judge at the international criminal court, weighing accusations of war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity; now she is on the same list as terrorists and those involved in organised crime. “It really was a moment of a bit of disbelief,” she said.

The fallout was both material and psychological. As her credit cards, Amazon and Google accounts were cancelled, she reeled from what she described as a “direct and flagrant attack” on one of the world’s most prominent courts." (…)

(…) JUDGES CHALLENGE LEGAL BASIS

The lawsuit ⁠argues that the sanctions were against the law as they exceeded the scope of IEEPA and were not based on a genuine national emergency or extraordinary threat. “The Sanctions Regime … is designed to exert extra-judicial pressure ​on these judges and their colleagues on the ICC bench by targeting their financial and other ​personal interests, with ⁠the objective of punishing them for prior judicial decisions and coercing them into prioritizing their private interests over deciding cases on the basis of the law and facts,” the lawsuit said." (…)

Whatever is happening in Türkiye, Erdogan getting worse?

Nobody seems to know anyhting, indeed:

Iran denies that 2 US ships have passed but claim to have fired 2 missiles on US ships. US claims to have passed 2 ships, but deny any missiles were fired by Iran.

If people wanna change the world, maybe we should start with this enormous gap and take it from there.

Here a historic graph for context. Per 2023 the gap has soared 1,085% since 1978.

#edit better graph

Reporting in Iraq

And she’ll even go back, after being abucted. These reporters are made different.

TL;DR: They just wanna make more money by drilling more oil.

Tnx and yes stepping out of OPEC gives the U.A.E. leeway to produce more without adhering to any price or production cap OPEC cartel decides on. But since Iran & Russia are also OPEC, I was wondering what other motives existed.

I found this BBC article fyi.

• However, the timing of this move hints at consequences from the Iran war. The pressure cooker in the Gulf has impacted the UAE’s relationship with Iran and may affect its already strained relationship with Saudi Arabia. (…)
• In this view, it makes sense to raise as much money from oil reserves as quickly as possible before demand craters. The UAE has financial firepower and a partly diversified economy, through financial services and tourism.

TL; DR; they don’t see the benefit in OPEC and have already strained relationships with some members, they want to sell oil while there is still a demand, due to increasing green energy alrtenatives.