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[-] njm1314@lemmy.world 84 points 2 weeks ago
[-] cygnus@lemmy.ca 48 points 2 weeks ago

It makes sense for all of Eastern Europe to be the same level.

[-] Koen967@feddit.nl 30 points 2 weeks ago

Didn't realize Portugal was Eastern European

[-] cygnus@lemmy.ca 38 points 2 weeks ago
[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 weeks ago

Who knows what that's revenge for.

[-] sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 8 points 2 weeks ago

Yea what the hell, why us?

[-] Oneser@lemm.ee 7 points 2 weeks ago
[-] jagermo@feddit.org 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I mean, austria has no issues skirting sanctions and the incoming right wing government around the FPÖ and Kickl is very Putin friendly.

I can see why Biden might be careful. But that may change with the new government.

[-] Oneser@lemm.ee 5 points 2 weeks ago

No, it's worse than that. Putin attended a wedding (in 2018, 5 months post Crimea annexation) of the then foreign minister [link].

They dissolved their government in 2019 after the then leader of the FPÖ told a journalist pretending to be a relative of an oligarch, that she could ensure positive coverage in exchange for government contracts. This might not be a direct link to a foreign enemy, but the corruption runs deep. [Link]

A senior quasi-secret service officer was discovered by the British to have been a spy for at least 7 years before he was apprehended. He was (cheaply) selling state secrets and providing information to the Russians... [link.]

You've got to love them 🇦🇹

[-] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Also Mexico? The Phillipines? Greenland?

[-] eatCasserole@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Greenland, even though Denmark is blue.

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 45 points 2 weeks ago

Oh, it's the map they always use

[-] agitated_judge@sh.itjust.works 43 points 2 weeks ago

Either that map is wrong, or the US doesn't understand how the EU works.

[-] HK65@sopuli.xyz 10 points 2 weeks ago

Both them and China try very hard not to.

[-] K4mpfie@feddit.org 42 points 2 weeks ago

Denmark is blue but Greenland isn't. The comedy basically writes itself

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 40 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Excluding some EU countries is a great move toward accelerating the Union’s fracturing.

[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 34 points 2 weeks ago

I guess letting a handful of white-collar racist IP lawyers draft your foreign policy isn't such a good idea after all.

[-] unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.ml 18 points 2 weeks ago

Meh. CTU means stuff comes into e.g. Rotterdam and then easily wherever it needs to go from there, and complaining about "evading sanctions" seems to me like an exercise in futility.

[-] Muffi@programming.dev 12 points 2 weeks ago

I'm not sure I get that part. Movement of goods within the EU is tax free, so why wouldn't another country just import it, and move it to, say, Portugal?

[-] NeuronautML@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I really doubt any sort of US action could lead to the EU fracturing.

If anything, having to deal with the US has brought us closer together. On one side there's Trump making a fool of himself and of the US. On the other side there's Musk, thinking he can take on European unions and actually win, because he thinks he's still in the US, and in the middle there's what i like to call the sheep pen of tech companies. We shear their wool for fines on privacy violations every couple of months to fund our regulatory organs.

[-] Diva@lemmy.ml 21 points 2 weeks ago

Biden didn't want to provoke the Turks and so Greece is also a tier 2 country

[-] merde@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 weeks ago

whole east Europe is tier 2. What an influence Turkey has!

[-] nom_nom@lemmy.ml 21 points 2 weeks ago
[-] KnightOfOldEmpire@lemmy.ml 19 points 2 weeks ago

Geopolitics. Whoever isn't on board with USA (or is suspected not to be) is getting sanctions. Austria and Swiss are neutral (on paper), that's not really going to fly with "you're with us or you're against us" attitude of the US.

My guess is they are not a member of the EU. I don't understand Portugal tho.

[-] kurcatovium@lemm.ee 25 points 2 weeks ago

Oh c'mon! It's not just Portugal, there's half of the EU missing...

[-] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 2 weeks ago

In a completely useless way because of the single market.

[-] PanArab@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The world seriously needs an alternative to US technology.

Also what does Biden have against Iceland and Greenland?

[-] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 16 points 2 weeks ago
[-] kaprap@leminal.space 5 points 2 weeks ago
[-] Not_mikey@slrpnk.net 9 points 2 weeks ago

That's French guiana which is part of France. Not even some weird colonial situation like Puerto Rico, it's a full department (province) with all the rights of mainland French departments.

[-] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago

With that in mind, the country that France shares the most border with is Brazil.

[-] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 weeks ago

I guess the US feels threatened by Greenland's prospering chip industry

[-] Not_mikey@slrpnk.net 14 points 2 weeks ago

Biggest shock on here is Israel isn't blue. I guess this as much of a fuck you for ruining my presidency Biden could muster on his way out.

[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 21 points 2 weeks ago

He's giving them $8bn in arms to kill Palestinians, so I don't think that's the case there. Obama did the same on his way out.

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[-] reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago

They will just steal any tech they want anyway, like the nuke.

[-] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 2 weeks ago

Regarding your Peter Griffin meme: Us Swiss and our Austrian neighbors are pretty white on average, but even beyond that, the Czech, the Polish, Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians are very white on average.

[-] nialv7@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Also Japan, South Korea and Taiwan in the blue tier... Don't know what OP is on about.

Edit: lol didn't realize i was on .ml

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 weeks ago

The ROK is essentially a US colony, their military is subservient to the US' military "in wartime." Guess what? They have always been in "wartime."

Taiwan is similar, the US maintains a large military presence there and in Japan to try to keep China in check as a geopolitical adversary.

[-] shawn1122@lemm.ee 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

East asian countries after WW2 (minus China) are essentially subsidaries of Western/US imperialism.

[-] kittenzrulz123 11 points 2 weeks ago

Occupied Palestine is tier 2? Doesnt he love their genocide?

[-] dogsoahC@lemm.ee 11 points 2 weeks ago

"The worldwide interest in accelerated computing for everyday applications is a tremendous opportunity for ~~the US to cultivate, promoting the economy and adding US jobs~~ imperialism."

[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 weeks ago
[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 weeks ago

What's up with Switzerland and Austria?

[-] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 weeks ago

Ah, the cracker index

[-] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 weeks ago

The more you buy, the more you save!

[-] andrewth09@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

Wake up babe, new first/second/third world definitions just dropped.

[-] ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 weeks ago

Are those chips actually made in US? Or just designed?

[-] IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 1 points 2 weeks ago

Designed in the US, fabbed at TSMC in Taiwan. TSMC is opening some n-1 fabs in Arizona soon so some could be fabbed in the US in the future.

[-] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago

I'm not sure what tier 2 loses in terms of access.

This obviously continues the Chinese need to "delete America" and capitalize competition to Nvidia, where they are not horribly behind H100 if that is the tier 2 standard. Tier 2 is now automatically motivated to help China to help themselves. Nvidia buying Trump is an easy path to get their oligarchy prioritized over bad arguments against capturing smaller global market that reduces innovation.

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